WAVERLY FOURSOME WINS TWO RELAYS, BREAKS SCHOOL RECORDS IN BOTH, AT CLASS B CHAMPIONSHIPS; KITTLE HEADED TO STATES IN TWO EVENTS
By: Tim Birney | Waverly Athletics | November 5, 2022
ENDWELL — The foursome of freshmen Mira Kittle and Sophia Lee, senior
Sophia DeSisti, and 7th-grader Lauryn Welles teamed to win a pair of
relays, and set a pair of school records here Saturday afternoon at the
Section IV, Class B girls swimming & diving championships at
Maine-Endwell High School.
Kittle, who will compete at the New
York State, Class B Championships in the 50-yard freestyle, and the
100-yard backstroke by virtue of hitting the state standard during the
season, also won the 100-yard backstroke, while DeSisti earned a silver
medal in the 100-yard freestyle.
Kittle, DeSisti, Welles, and Lee
won the 200-yard medley relay in a school-record time of 1:58.14. The
foursome eclipsed the previous mark of 1:59.52, set in 2016 by Julianne
Lee, Kelcey Madigan, Kennedy Wheeler, and Paige Miller.
Class A
Horseheads earned the state berth in the 200-yard medley relay with a
time of 1:53.14. (While the class championships are held separately,
only the top time (and state standards) from all three classes advance
to States.)
The same foursome won the 200-yard freestyle relay in
a school-record time of 1:43.87 seconds, eclipsing their own record,
which they established Wednesday in the Class B preliminaries.
Class A Horseheads also earned the state berth in the 200-yard free relay with a time of 1:40.68.
Kittle, DeSisti, Welles, and Lee placed second in the 400-yard freestyle relay in a time of 4:01.24.
Kittle
won the 100-yard backstroke in a time of 1:00.24, which establishes a
new Maine-Endwell pool record, breaking her own mark she set Wednesday.
DeSisti
earned a silver medal in the 100-yard freestyle, clocking in at 57.18
seconds. Chenango Valley junior Jenna Beck won Section IV golf in 55.97
seconds.
Lee finished sixth in the 50-yard freestyle in a time of
27.55 seconds, and Welles finished ninth in the 100-yard breaststroke
in a time of 1:25.34
Freshman Elizabeth Robinson finished 11th in
the 500-yard freestyle in a time of 6:32.67, and freshman Emma
Vanderhoof was 13th in 6:52.12.
Robinson finished 13th in the
200-yard IM a time of 2:52.09, and Vanderhoof finished 15th in the
200-yard freestyle in time of 2:32.75.
The New York State Championships are Nov. 18-19 at the Webster Aquatic Center in Webster, N.Y.
About the Author
Tim Birney is the founder / owner of River Road Media Group. He was born and raised in the Valley, graduating from Waverly High School in 1984.
Birney earned an Associate's Degree in Journalism from SUNY Morrisville in 1986 and a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism / Public Relations from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1988. He began his newspaper career at The Daily Review in Towanda in 1989, before moving on to The Evening Times in 1995. He spent more than 10 years at the Times, the last four as Managing Editor.
River Road Media Group includes five sites in "The Sports Reports" family that cover 24 school districts in five counties: Valley Sports Report (launched Aug. 10, 2009), Tioga County (NY) Sports Report (Aug. 13, 2018), and Northern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 31, 2020); Northern Tier West Sports Report (March 15, 2021) Southern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 16, 2021).
