Nighthawk Swimmers Sixth In SWC

Newtown High School’s girls’ swimming and diving team placed sixth in the South-West Conference Championships this past week. The diving competition was held on November 3 and the swimming events were held on November 6 — at Masuk High in Monroe.

Pomperaug won the meet with 488 points, and Newtown scored 259 to place sixth among 12 schools. Top finishes for Newtown swimmers include:

200-yard medley relay, sixth, 2:04.13, Maggie Atkinson, Zoe Eggleston, Maggie Hoolehan, and Natalie Dunn

200 free, seventh, 2:10.11, Abigail Fagerholm

200 individual medley, ninth, 2:28.57, Atkinson

50 free, fourth, 26.23, Kelsey McEvoy

Diving, 14th, 254.25, Liz Poeltl

100 butterfly, tenth, 1:10.23, Caroline Lawrence

100 free, fourth, 57.60, McEvoy

100 free, tenth, 59.76, Alex Scarpa

100 free, 11th, 59.94, Fagerholm

500 free, ninth, 5:51.68, Evelyn Fahey

200 free relay, fourth, 1:48.52, McEvoy, Hoolehan, Fagerholm, and Lawrence

100 backstroke 15th, 1:08.68, Atkinson

100 breaststroke, seventh, 1:15.83, Eggleston; 12th, 1:18.18, Michelle Isabella

400 free relay, fourth, 4:01.35, Lawrence, Scarpa, Fagerholm, and McEvoy