Swimming & Diving (Girls V) Swimming & Diving (Boys V) West Lafayette Jr-Sr High School
WL Red Devils Display Huge Improvements at JV Finale
By Jordan Bonfitto | Jan 27, 2024 12:00 AM
The West Lafayette Red Devils traveled locally to the JV Finale, hosted annually by McCutcheon High School to conclude the end of the regular season. Major team goals for the day were to tackle new, more difficult events that wouldn’t have been possible at the beginning of the season, or to celebrate growth and improvement in key events since the beginning of the season. Both teams did a fantastic job, racking up 39 individual best times across eight individual events, including four athletes swimming events for the first time, including: 200 Freestyle: Mia Munguia-Aponte (FR), Jessica Reingold (SO), Gargi Tawalarami (FR), Megan Clary (FR) 200 IM: Sophia Vlachos (JR), Daniel Puente (FR) 100 Butterfly: Daniel Puente (FR), Daniel Wang (FR) 100 Freestyle: Mungia-Aponte 500 Freestyle: Madigan Boesch (JR), Zihan Xu (SO) 100 Backstroke: Estelle Seymour (FR), Tawalarami Freshman Daniel Wang led the group in time dropped, with an impressive 28.04 second drop over his previous personal record in the 200 Freestyle. Estelle Seymour (FR), Jon Yang (FR), Alexandra Ying (JR), Jacob Cohen (SO) and Brett Kang (SR) all dropped double digit seconds in at least one race for the day. Each new personal record is a testament to the hard work these athletes have put in throughout the season, including: 200 Freestyle: Estelle Seymour (-22.28), Chase Jordan (-4.68), Brett Kang (-10.96), Nicolas Aliaga (-9.96), Daniel Wang (-28.04) 200 IM: Mihika Gagare (-3.48), Jon Yang (-6.03), Jacob Cohen (-12.22) 50 Freestyle: Madigan Boesch (-0.53), Dani Caviglia (0.85) 100 Butterfly: Nicolas Aliaga (-5.83) 100 Freestyle: Alexandra Ying (-14.56), Megan Clary (-1.56), Chase Jordan (0.78), Jacob Clampitt-Morales (-2.23), Dani Caviglia (-2.85) 500 Freestyle: Sophia Vlachos (-1.66) 100 Backstroke: Jessica Reingold (-6.14), Jacob Cohen (-12.79), Mukund Rao (-4.48), Brett Kang (-0.11) 100 Breaststroke: Juanita Rodriguez-Bravo (-4.27), Alexandra Ying (-3.13), Mihika Gagare (-0.73), Jon Yang (-15.18) Congratulations to all of the athletes on a fantastic meet!