Parent hopes for residents to turn out to cheer

Fri, 01/29/2016 - 11:45am

Wiscasset’s swim team, front row, from left: MacKendra Chancellor, Amanda Johnson and Amanda Marcus; back row, from left: Aidan Carlson, Daren Wood, Sam Storer, Colin Viele and Brandon Goud. Courtesy photo

Friday night is the last high school swim meet of the season for Wiscasset, and it will be preceded by a recognition ceremony for the team’s five seniors, team member Colin Viele’s mother Nicole Viele said.

Nicole Viele told the Wiscasset School Committee Thursday night about some members’ accomplishments this season including qualifying for the state meet set for 11 a.m. Feb. 16 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Qualified so far are: Brandon Goud, 100 breaststroke; Aidan Carlson, 50 freestyle; Sam Storer, 200 Individual Medley, 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke; and Colin Viele has qualified in all possible individual events — 100 free, 200 IM, 50 free, 100 fly, 100 free, 500 free, 100 back, 100 breast, his mother said.

Senior David Wood is only two seconds away from a qualifying time. “And we are hoping to cheer him on for a qualifying time tonight,” Viele writes in an email response to the Wiscasset Newspaper.

Tonight’s meet is against Camden. Viele told the committee that she heard Hyde School, which also swims at Wiscasset’s meets, plans to have 50 students at the Wiscasset Community Center tonight.

Other than one set of grandparents, swimmers parents are the only supporters that have been showing up for Wiscasset, and all of them help out during the meets, she said.

It’s hard to cheer while watching a stop watch, she added. She encouraged residents to come cheer tonight. The recognition ceremony is at 5:15 p.m.; the meet, at 5:30 p.m., school staff said.