Category: Kayla Swimming

Newton lowered its 200 free relay time by a half second from last weeks sectionals to 1:49.34 to take 13th in the 2010 State Division 1 State Championship (results).

Kayla swam her 2nd fastest flat start 50 yard freestyle (27.88) leading off Newton to a 14th place in the 200 freestyle relay in the southern sectional meet (results). Their time of 1:49.94 was almost 2 seconds faster than the relay swam last year when they placed 19th.

Newton ended the season 6-5 with a win over Weymouth today. Kayla won the 100 yard freestyle(1:06.15) and the 4x50yd relay (28.79 lead off). Their next meet is the Bay State Championships at 3:45pm on Sunday 11/7. The newton high school newspaper picture is from warm up.

100 yard freestyle:
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50 yard freestyle:
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Kayla won the 50 yard freestyle (see video) and her 4×50 relay took second as Newton cruised to an easy win over Dedham today. Nanny, Papa, and Jared were in attendance.

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Newton beat league rival Brookline today at the new Newton pool. Kayla swam the 200 yard freestyle for the first time in her career (2:35) and also swam in the 200 free relay (3rd) and 400 free relay. Full size pictures are here.

Newton move to 2-0 with a 95-91 win over Wellesley Friday in their first meet in the new Newton North pool. Kayla, coming off a weekend strep throat infection, swam the fastest 50 yard freestyle of her career. She placed 3rd with a 27.83 automatic time. She also placed 5th in 100fr (1:04.83) and 2nd in 4×100 free relay. Here 4x200fr relay was DQed due to 1st swimmer going 100yards instead of 50. She contributed 4 individual points and 4 relay points to the team’s big win.

By comparison, Newton lost the same meet last year 92-94. She swam a 28.49 PR in the 50fr and a 1:06.44 PR in the 100fr in that meet.

Photos:

Video (typo in title for 50 free — time was 27.83).

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Kayla got 4th place in 50free and 100free and 2nd in 200yd and 400 yd free relays to contribute 4 individual points and 8 relay points to Newtons 2 point win over Norwood today.

From 2009-11

From 2009-11

From 2009-11

for the Southern Mass Sectional Swimming Championships. She split a ~27.5 in the 4x50yd free relay. Newton placed 19th in the race, improving their best time to 1:51.81 from their seed of 153.19. They return in 2 weeks for the State Open championships.