The Westfield Area YMCA Devilfish (70 strong) competed at the 2024 NJ YMCA Silver Championships at the Gloucester Institute of Technology in Sewell on February 16-18. The Devilfish set multiple meet records, representing the fastest times ever swum at this championship meet. Mason Liu set two records in Boys

15-18 200 IM and 400 IM and was meet champion in both of these events. Spencer Grauch earned a meet record in the Boys 13-14 500 Free and was meet champion in this event and Boys

13-14 1650 Free and 400 IM.

Congratulations to meet champion Zadie Zimmerman Girls 13-14 200 Fly and meet championship relay teams 9-10 Girls Medley Relay (Claire Seeder, Zoe Matera, Isabelle Bloomer, Sophie Zhang), and Girls

13-14 200 Free Relay (Keri Kapuscinski, Sarah Reed, Zadie Zimmerman, Avery Levitt).

TOP 16 DEVILFISH:

9-10 Girls: Isabelle Bloomer (7th

50 Free, 13th 200 Free, 3rd 50 Back,

3rd 100 Back, 7th 50 Fly, 3rd 100 Fly), Zoe Matera (7th 100 Back), Maria Popescu (14th 200 Free, 12th

100 Fly), Caroline Ritter (12th 200 Free), Claire Seeder (11th 50 Breast), Sophie Zhang (5th 100 Breast, 14th

100 Fly).

9-10 Boys: Noah Choudhry (13th

50 Back, 10th 50 Fly), Rhys Mackaluso (8th 50 Breast, 9th 100 Breast), Enrico Medeiros Bovo (15th

50 Free, 4th 100 Back), Evan Spring

(4th 50 Free, 7th 100 Back, 13th 50 Breast), Thomas Tao (5th 100 Breast).

11-12 Girls: Jemma Galczynski

(15th 100 Fly), Anastasia Geissman (2nd 50 Back), Olivia Giuliano (6th

200 Free, 16th 100 Back, 9th 50 Fly), Hannah Koglin (14th 100 IM), Jane Reichart (5th 100 Free, 4th 100 Back,

6th 200 Back), Dorian Ritter (14th

100 Back, 9th 200 Back), Victoria Sidorov (7th 200 Free).

11-12 Boys: Josh Bhatia (8th 200 Fly), Christopher Bloomer (15th 50 Free, 3rd 50 Back, 6th 100 Back), Alexander Contract (12th 200 Back), Grayson Heintz (4th 50 Back, 3rd

100 Back), Bennett Kovalakides (14th

50 Back), Jack Levitt (9th 50 Back), Henry Lorenzo (2nd 50 Fly), Adham Salama (12th 50 Free, 15th 50 Fly,

7th 100 IM).

13-14 Girls: Sahasra Botcha (10th

100 Breast), Haley Concannon (14th

500 Free, 7th 1000 Free), Hannah Doll (13th 200 Fly), Keri Kapuscinski

(15th 100 Free, 8th 200 Free, 6th 500 Free, 3rd 1000 Free), Avery Levitt

(10th 100 Free), Trisha Ojha (16th

100 Breast), Charlotte Ouellette (14th

50 Free, 15th 100 Fly, 15th 200 IM,

14th 400 IM), Sarah Reed (16th 100 Free, 4th 100 Back, 15th 100 Breast,

12th 200 Breast), Hailey Walker (10th

200 Breast), Zadie Zimmerman (9th

100 Free, 7th 100 Back, 4th 200 Back, 1st 200 Fly, 6th 200 IM).

13-14 Boys: Dima Batkivskyi (8th

100 Free, 11th 100 Back, 8th 100 Fly),Alexander Cherenkov (15th 200 Fly, 16th 400 IM), Spencer Grauch

(1st 500 Free, 2nd 1000 Free, 1st

1650 Free, 10th 200 IM, 1st 400 IM), Joseph Kiley (4th 100 Fly), Jayden Liu (2nd 100 Breast, 2nd 200 Breast), Max Matera (13th 100 Back), Kevin O’Neill (5th 100 Free, 10th 200 Free,

10th 200 Breast, 14th 200 IM), Liam Quayle (14th 500 Free).

15-18 Boys: Ted Crall (9th 50 Free,

7th 100 Free, 4th 100 Fly), Hazem Elkordy (13th 50 Free, 11th 100 Free), Charlie Jeckell (16th 100 Free, 2nd

200 Free, 8th 100 Back), Mason Liu

(5th 200 Back, 3rd 200 Fly, 1st 200 IM, 1st 400 IM), Benedict Nematadzira (13th 50 Free, 8th 100 Breast, 8th 100 Breast, 8th 100 Fly), Alejandro Villar (9th 100 Breast, 15th

200 Breast), Wes Young (7th 500 Free, 4th 1000 Free, 4th 1650 Free,

7th 200 Fly).