Swimmers Take Fifth at Easterns

Easterns 2022 was one of the best swimming meets in Brunswick history, as the team earned a fifth-place finish at the event this past weekend. 

This year, after a one-year hiatus due to Covid-19, the meet formally known as Prep School Nationals was a return to normalcy, competitiveness, and great ’Wick swimming. 

The team won four events, broke five New England records and one Franklin & Marshall pool record, and also set one Eastern Championship record. The Bruins had finalists in every swimming event, also having six automatic All-American swims and one All-American Consideration swim.  

On top of that, every swim seemed like a best time, and the boys were unbelievably supportive of one another throughout the day — cheering for every swim and celebrating every swim; no matter the first or the last heat was a theme of the weekend.  

’Wick placed fifth overall out of over 40 schools that came to Lancaster, Pa., from the Bahamas to California.
 

Lucas Hodgson was a double-event winner and voted the Male Swimmer of the Meet by the Easterns coaches in attendance. 

Finals Results:

200 Medley Relay — Lucas Hodgson, Alexander Hazlett, Ben Wu, and Patrick Mullen
Time — 1:28.51, 1st
New England Record, Automatic All-American, Franklin & Marshall Record, Eastern Interscholastic Championship Record, Brunswick Record (3rd in the USA this year)
 
200FR 
Ivey Gehring 1:45.07, 21st
Ryan Ohl 1:41.63, 6th
 
200IM
Patrick Mullen 1:55.26, 8th
Alexander Hazlett 1:47.37, 2nd, New England Record, Automatic All-American, Brunswick Record (14th in the USA this year)
 
50FR
Lucas Hodgson 19.90, 1st, New England Record, Automatic All-American, Brunswick Record (7th in the USA this year)
 
100Fly
Jack Morningstar 53.50, 19th
Jack Moore 50.93, 5th
Ben Wu 50.42, 4th
 
200FR Relay — Ivey Gehring, Andrew Rodriguez, Ben Wu, and Ryan Ohl
Time — 1:25.70, 5th
All-American Consideration time
 
100FR
Patrick Mullen 46.93, 14th
Ryan Ohl 46.56, 7th
Alexander Hazlett 44.08, 1st, New England Record, Brunswick Record, and Automatic All-American (11th in the USA this year)
 
500FR
Ben Wu 4:46.30, 17th
 
100BK
Peter Michalik 52.86, 14th
Lucas Hodgson 44.14,  New England Record, Brunswick Record, and Automatic All-American (14th in the USA this year)
 
100BR
Jack Moore 59.64, 17th
 
With New Englands less than one week away, the team is hoping to match the energy and effort it put forth this past weekend to compete with Division 1 schools Exeter, Andover, Suffield, and Loomis. This will be its best chance in recent history to challenge perennial powerhouse Andover.