Swimming: Kearsarge and Sunapee bask in senior night success against Concord on Friday

Sunapee senior Jordan Roosevelt enjoyed his senior night to the fullest with fast times and good company at his last home meet.

Sunapee senior Jordan Roosevelt enjoyed his senior night to the fullest with fast times and good company at his last home meet. ALEXANDER RAPP / Monitor Staff

Sunapee senior Jordan Roosevelt enjoyed his senior night to the fullest with fast times and good company at his last home meet.

Sunapee senior Jordan Roosevelt enjoyed his senior night to the fullest with fast times and good company at his last home meet. ALEXANDER RAPP / Monitor Staff

Sunapee senior Jordan Roosevelt enjoyed his senior night to the fullest with fast times and good company at his last home meet.

Sunapee senior Jordan Roosevelt enjoyed his senior night to the fullest with fast times and good company at his last home meet. ALEXANDER RAPP / Monitor Staff

Concord freshman Arjun Kaushik swims in the boys’ 100-yard free and placed seventh in the event.

Concord freshman Arjun Kaushik swims in the boys’ 100-yard free and placed seventh in the event. ALEXANDER RAPP / Monitor staff

Kearsarge junior captain Kinsley Monnat won the girls’ 100-yard breaststroke event to cap off her last home meet of the season.

Kearsarge junior captain Kinsley Monnat won the girls’ 100-yard breaststroke event to cap off her last home meet of the season. ALEXANDER RAPP / Monitor staff

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Monitor staff

Published: 01-26-2025 1:48 AM

Kearsarge and Sunapee hosted Concord and three other schools at Colby-Sawyer’s Hogan Center pool on Friday night for some varsity swimming action as the teams approach the end of their regular seasons, and gear up for the last chance meets and championships in February.

Both teams went up against an intense, deep and fast Hanover team, but here are some highlights and updates will be important to keep track of as the season nears its end.

Concord:

William Quinn is in his 10th year as Concord’s head coach and 12th with the program, but he has decided to take a step back at the end of the season. English teacher Bill Pribis will take over next year.

“It’s probably time for a fresh pair of eyes and the guy who’s going to take my spot, Bill Pribis, is a teacher at the school. He knows the kids he can encourage some kids who may be sitting back to come on out to the pool,” Quinn said. “It’s been great. It’s been a lot of fun for me. I love the sport, I think it teaches a lot to these kids. I just hope that they took the lessons that I was trying to teach, and I hope they build on it.”

He added that he hopes that the lessons he taught through swimming were taken to heart – that swimming success is all about the effort one pours into it, commitment, and effort. 

He’ll be passing on a promising young squad of swimmers to Pribis. On Friday night in New London some Tide swimmers shined.

Freshman swimmer Jillian Barry came in second in the girls’ 100-yard freestyle (1:09.85) behind Hanover’s Claire Uiterwyk (1:02.71). Senior Deegan Lanigan placed third in the boys’ 50-yard freestyle (29.04) and first in the 100-yard free by nearly three seconds (1:08.95).

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The boys also came in second to Hanover in both the 200-yard and 400-yard freestyle relays to cap off a solid night. The girls also fought hard and placed third and second in the 200-yard and 400-yard free relays, respectively.

“We have potential for one more meet in early February, but this group is very fresh, very new, green. They’ve made incredible improvements. We’re going up against Hanover, who is a perennial Division II powerhouse, but individually all these kids have dropped significant amounts of time over the course of the season,” Quinn said.

Kearsarge and Sunapee: 

Kearsarge and Sunapee train together, which is a common occurrence with NHIAA swimming, and the two teams celebrated their only senior – and it was certainly a special night for Sunapee’s Jordan Roosevelt, at his final home swim meet surrounded by teammates and friends he had made through swimming at other schools. 

Roosevelt started his night in the 200-yard individual medley, where he came in fourth, but dropped three seconds from his personal best. The big one was the 100-yard fly, not just because he came in first (1:00.03) but because the only other in the event was his good friend Miles Vogt.

“I trained so much in my 10th-grade year, I was good, I peaked really well in my 10th-grade year. Last year, I think that summer before junior year I had driver’s ed so I couldn’t practice at all. So last year was really bad, but this year I was able to practice again over the summer. I’ve been able to sort of get better,” Roosevelt said.

The small team found success at the very competitive meet and many of its swimmers had personal best times on Friday. Led by coach Emily Chaput, the team was in very good spirits by the end of the night and happily celebrated senior night as the pool emptied. 

“The kids did a great job today. They made lots of best times and kept pushing on those state qualifying times,” Chaput said. “We’re coming up on our peak, and we’re going to start tapering towards states pretty soon here. But the kids are working hard, showing up every day doing their best in and out of the pool, and we're going to keep working.”

Junior Colton Stultz dropped five seconds in his 100-yard free time with a time of 1:11.38 and came in second behind Concord’s Deegan Lanigan, which he was very proud of. He claimed it was mostly thanks to his goggles not filling with water like the last time he nearly set a personal best.

Another highlight was sophomore Chelsea Snow, who dropped five seconds in the 200-yard free (2:25.99).

“I’m a second away from making states. So next time, it’s going to happen,” Snow said. “I’m pretty proud of myself for dropping time.”

Kinsley Monnat, Kearsarge and Sunapee’s team captain, came in first in the girls’ 100-yard breaststroke (1:23.73) coming back from an injury and was very happy with the night’s results.

“I think the team spirit is really, really good and I think that everybody’s just very unified as a team and we all love each other. So it’s really awesome,” Monnat said.

Alexander Rapp can be reached at arapp@cmonitor.com