The girls swim team pulled out a 103-83 point victory and the boys swim team fell short 97-69 against the Woodside Wildcats on Friday afternoon.
Seniors Heidi Chen and Natalie Scafetta, junior Jocelyn Chang, and sophomore Maya Earley took an early lead and finished with a time of 1:56.36 for the 200-yard medley relay, earning the group a CCS cut.
“I did breaststroke on the relay,” Scafetta said. “I’m used to doing backstroke, though, so it was fun to do a different stroke.”
In the girls’ 200-yard individual medley, junior Sarah Chang finished first in just two minutes and 23.45 seconds. Shortly after, Chen secured two wins in the girls’ 50 and 100-yard freestyle with a time of 25.86 and 55.40, respectively.
“I think it was a good start, and of course, throughout the season, we can definitely improve our times,” Chen said.
However, the boys’ team was slowing down, lacking substantial wins for the first half of the meet. In the boys’ 100-yard freestyle, sophomore Leonard Kabakov Isakova narrowly missed first place, finishing in 56.89 seconds.
Just a couple events later, junior Jack Bullard swept the boys’ 100-yard butterfly with a sub-minute time of 59.74. Bullard came out with another win in the boys’ 500-yard freestyle, earning a time of 5:20.56.
Despite falling just one second short to the Wildcats, junior Elise Miller, Sarah, Jocelyn, and Chen earned themselves a CCS cut in the girls’ 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:45.14. The boys’ 200-yard freestyle did not receive the same result, though, finishing after Woodside with a time of 1:42.73 with seniors Daniel Farrell, Leo Mazzon, and Paul Whelan in the water with Kabakov Isakova.
“What I learned from swimming is that how you treat a 200 is how you treat life: if you go too fast and you’re not consistent, you let yourself become lazy in the start and end up struggling later,” junior Isaac Chuang said.
Scafetta battled against the Wildcats in the girls’ 100-yard Backstroke, but was able to secure an easy three-second lead with a CCS cut of 1:02.96. Also snatching a victory in the boys’ 100 backstroke, senior Armin Loftman maintained a four-second lead and finished in 59.39 seconds.
In the girls’ 500-yard freestyle, Scafetta sealed another victory and CCS cut with an exceptional time of 5:25.09. Earley and Miller seized first and third place in the girls’ 100-yard butterfly, going 1:02.46 and 1:07.70, respectively.
Ending the girls’ events with determination, junior Kat Savchenko, Sarah, Earley, and Scafeta pulled ahead in the 400 freestyle relay with 3:57.86, missing the CCS time by just one second. The boys’ 400 yard freestyle relay finished the meet on a high note, with Whelan, Kabakov Isakova, Loftman, and Bullard ending with a time of 3:40.40.
“Every 10 events or so, the varsity boys team groups up and has a team talk which usually hypes us up,” Chuang added.
“Everyone is so hyped up, and it’s our first meet of the season. We’re super excited to see where this season takes us,” Scafetta said.
The Bears will travel to San Mateo High School to swim head to head against the Bearcats on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
