The Manhasset girls swim team had a busy week, swimming Cold Spring Harbor, Farmingdale and Garden City. The girls started the week well capturing the Division D title by defeating Cold Spring Harbor on Tuesday. On Wednesday the Indians defeated Farmingdale 93-82 in front of a capacity crowd to increase their win streak to seven.

This set up a meet between unbeaten Garden City (7-0) and Manhasset (7-0) at King's Point on Friday, Oct. 22.

The Garden City swim team has won 5 consecutive county titles and has not lost a dual meet in 4 years. The meet was very intense in front of a spirited SRO crowd at King's Point.

Garden City took an early lead then Manhasset responded to pull even. The meet went back and forth, each team adjusting to the other team's moves. Almost every swimmer from both teams had personal best times. In the end, Garden City had a little too much for the Indians, defeating them 101-84 in a highly contested matchup. "We swam incredibly well tonight," stated Manhasset Coach McGrane. "The girls were pumped for the meet and were inspired by the home crowd's energy level."

There were many personal best swims this week and two school records set. The 200-medley relay team of Chrissie Gotimer, Samantha Reiss, Chrissy Brodt and Morgan Cotter shattered the old school record of 2:00.2 (1995) by swimming a 1:58.88. Sophomore Chrissy Brodt broke a longstanding record (1988) in the 100 backstroke by swimming a 1:04.6.

Several juniors swam personal bests this week. Amanda Goldstein swam a 26.19 in the 50 yd free. Sarah DePietro swam a personal best 37.5 in the 50 yd breaststroke. Elena Yee swam a personal best 30.8 in the 50 fly, 28.42 in the 50 free and 6:24 in the 500 free.

The Sophomores who swam personal bests were: Johanna LoVecchio 2:14.24 in the 200 free, 1:05.50 in the 100 fly, 27.42 in the 50 free and 1:01.3 in the 100 free. Chrissie Gotimer swam a 58.6 in the 100yd free and a 1:09.63 in the 100yd backstroke. Stephanie Perez swam a personal best 29.85 in the 50 free. Michele Lawrence swam a personal best 1:13.3 in the 100 free and 7:17 in the 500 free.

Many freshmen also swam personal bests. Whitney Quackenbush swam a 26.13 in the 50yd free and 58.30 in the 100yd free. Samantha Reiss swam a personal best 33.6 50 yd breaststroke, 2:36.15 in the 200yd IM and 1:15.50 in the 100 yd breaststroke. Taylor Fleischaker swam a 32.9 in the 50 free and scored 135 points in diving. Amanda Usher scored 125 points in diving. Kristin Conte swam a personal best 33.37 in the 50 free. Corey Riggin swam a personal best 1:15.44 in the 100yd free and 7:13 in the 500 free. Jaclyn Carey swam a personal best 1:12.3 in the 100 yd fly. Christina Vlachos swam a personal best 2:47 in the 200 IM and 1:22.09 in the 100 breaststroke.

Eighth-grader Meghan Shea swam a personal best 2:16.15 in the 200 free, 28.2 in the 50 free and 6:09.8 in the 500 free. Eighth-grader Allison Haspel swam a personal best 37.3 in the 50 breaststroke and a 1:19.3 in the 100 breaststroke.