BOARDMAN SPARTAN SWIMMING & DIVING

Girls Team Scores: Boardman 132, Fitch 53

On a cold winter night at Beeghly Natatorium, the Lady Spartans heated up the pool by winning 10 out of 12 events vs the Fitch Falcons. The Spartan girls won this contest 132-53. Their next meet will be this Thursday vs Akron Firestone. Their record now stands at 7-2.

Double event winners include: Alyssa DiNapoli in the 200 Freestyle (2:12.61) and the 100 Back (1:05.16), Hayley Ho in the 200 IM (2:32.51) and 100 Breast (1:13.76). 

Single event winners include: Madison Ricciuti 1 meter diving, Alison Kuras in the 100 Free (58.22), and Ava Velasquez in the 500 Free (6:22.62)....   Read Full Post

Girls Team Scores: Boardman 560, Canfield 293, Howland 257, Austintown 248, Warren Harding 230, Edgewood 141, Lakeside 118, Liberty 69

The Boardman Girl’s team continued their conference success by winning their second conference title in two weeks. Mikel Flatley won Female Swimmer of the Meet. The girl’s 200 freestyle relay team of Mikel Flatley, Ali Kuras, Alyssa DiNapoli, and Jennah Markovitch set a new AAC record by placing first in the 1:42.32. The same 4 girls also won the 400 Freestyle relay (3:49.77). Other top 3 places to note: 200 medley relay team placed 1st with a 1:58.82 (Ella Huston, Abby Yocum, Sarah Varga, and Ali Kuras), Abby Yocum (Jr) 3rd in the 200 IM and 2nd in the 100 Breast, Mikel Flatley 1st in the 50 Free and 2nd in the 100 Fly, Jennah Markovitch 3rd in the 50 Free and 3rd in the 500 Free, Alyssa Dinapoli 1st in the 100 free and 2nd in the 100 backstroke, Hayley Ho 1st in the 100 Breaststroke, Madison Ricciuti 1st in 1M diving, Jordan Jones 2nd in 1M diving. ...   Read Full Post

The Boardman Girl’s and Boy’s Swim Teams won their NEAC Conference titles on Saturday January 5th at Wooster Natatorium. This 8 team conference includes Canfield, Wooster, Akron Firestone, Canton GlenOak, Massilon Perry, Massilon Washington, and Canfield.

GIRL SCORES: Boardman 407, Akron Firestone 404, Wooster 341, GlenOak 234, Perry 203, Warren Harding 155, Canfield 144, Massilon 63

The Boardman girls relay team of Mikel Flatley (Sr) Alison Kuras (Sr) Alyssa DiNapoli, (Jr) and Jennah Markovitch (Sr), set a new meet record in the 200 Free Relay with a time 1:41.26. This eclipsed the old mark set in 2014 also held by Boardman’s Brooke Bailey, Amanda Moss, Jessica Hilk, and Jordyn Markovitch. “This was the moment our girls realized they had a great chance of winning this meet. We were predicted a 3rd place finish behind Akron Firestone and Wooster, but this was a total team effort. We won this meet with all of our other top 16 finishes. This meant moving some of our swimmers out of their main events to help win this conference championship. Our only other first place finish was Mikel Flatley in the 100 yard butterfly (1:00.58),” explained Coach Cordon. “To win this meet by 3 points over Firestone was incredible!” ...   Read Full Post