Staples Girls Swim Team Celebrates

The Staples High girls swim team celebrates at Wesleyan University tonight after capturing third place at the state LL championship meet. Standouts for Staples were senior captain Molly Loftus, who won the 500 freestyle, and freshman Verity Abel, who won the 100 backstroke in a new LL record and finished third in the 100 butterfly with a new Staples record. Other top eight finishers included the 200 freestyle relay of junior Gabby Wimer, senior captain Stephanie Nussbaum, sophomore Sarah Cooperman and Loftus who finished third, senior dive captain Schaeffer Andrews third, the 400 freestyle relay of Wimer, Cooperman, Loftus and Abel also third, Wimer fifth in the 100 freestyle, the 200 medley relay of sophomore Alexis Teixeira, freshman Gabbie LeBlanc, Abel and sophomore Rebecca Raab sixth and Cooperman seventh in the 500 freestyle. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo