BATH

The annual YMCA State Swimming Championship is being held this weekend beginning Friday and running through Sunday at the University of Maine at Orono.

Sixteen YMCA teams from around Maine will be competing.

Competition will be held in several age categories, with individual award winners, along girls, boys and total team championships.

The Bath Area Family YMCA team, the Long Reach Swim Club, is the defending state champions, having won the meet 27 consecutive years and 35 times overall going back to 1965.

“We only won by 300 last year and Bangor got stronger, so I expect an even closer meet,” said LRSC coach Jay Morissette

Bath YMCA has eight high schools represented on the team this year and 182 athletes. Morissette is assisted by coaches Sponge Savage, Mallory Plummer and James Wells.

Competing for the Bath Y for the 8-and-under girls will be Charley Carleton, Olivia Craney, Olivia Colaluca, Sophie Cunningham, Willow Halpin, Lauren Lamb, Eliza Levy, Elinor Riley, Lilah Ryan and Samantha Triffitt.

For the 8-and-under boys, LRSC has Caden Byrd, Wyatt Byrd, Maxwell Couture, Cameron Griffee, Noah Craney, Hunter Hawkes, Asher Light, Fletcher McDonough, JT Papiernik, Wyatt Papiernik, Wylder Savage and Gregory Trapp.

For the 9-10 girls— Victoria Albert, Cambridge Anderson, Samantha Butts, Remy Cook, Mayim Feinberg, Isabella Garside, Emma Hart, Ana Kelly, Abigail Minzner, Hannah Redman, Divi Rivera, Tess Sarna, Astrid Wright and Carly Yates.

For the 9-10 boys — Brady Chubbuck, Garrett Craney, Noah Grondin, Joshua Langworthy, Alex Le, Aden Leino, Cody Light, Gus Mason, Gaffney McDonough, Nathan Minzner, David Mitchell, Jackson Salve, Ryan Schultz, Collin Scott, Reilly Williams and Sawyer Wright.

For the 11-12 girls — Olive Beeton, Vivian Blackwell-Peavey, Lilly Buck, Piper Carleton, Colleen Cashman, Claire Charbonneau, Grace Chubbuck, Catherine Clifford, Erin Coughlin, Ellery Downing, Natalie Emmerson, Olivia Gagnon, Sophie Gonzalez, Ella Gustafson, Maia Higgins, June Jung, Sadie Levy, Eliza Levy, Eliza Marco, Annie Mason, Sarah Palmer, Bess Pantaz, Lily Pomerleau, Katelyn Pratt, Evelyn Prince, Claire Sinibaldi, Grace Tetreault, Greta Trapp, Elena Trundy, Grace Rooney, Grace Whittaker and Lilly Wright.

The 11-12 boys are — Kipp Butts, Caleb Chamberland, Nico Herrera, Bailey Jacobs, Everett Johnson, Jonathan Koehler, Colin Lamb, Andrew Leighton, Keith Libby, Keegan Rowe, Aiden Saunders, Anders Savage, Finn Weafer and Casey Whittaker.

For the 13-14 girls — Vanessa Albert, Julia Baron, Lauren Buczkowski, Arden Carleton, Fiona Cashman, Caily Charbonneau, Margaret Chingos, Justina Gilman, Kaleigh Gingrow, Gracie Hawkes, Taylor Hemenway, Iris Hennin, Amanda Jorgensen, Tessa Jorgensen, Addy Jung, Acadia Keefe, Elise Mackey, Sophie Mason, Carley Mershon, Mary Parker, Delaney Pascuzzo, Catherine Shaughnessy, Caroline Skroski, Cora Spelke, Meara Stockford, Elizabeth Wallace and Maya Weisheit.

In the 13-14 boy division — Tristan Beverage, Andrew Chamberland, Caden Green, Oscar Herrera, Christopher Hole, Devin Lamb, Nathan Levy, Joshua Pratt, Curt Trapp, Bradley Vuong, Harrison Whittaker, Evan Willertz, Caleb Williams and Ciaran Wright.

For the Senior girls division — Sophie Blair, Laura Chavoustie, Haily Harper, Olivia Harper, Talia Jorgensen, Tara Jorgensen, Sophia Kruse, Ella Martin, Zenaide McCarthy, Margie Macleod, Alex Morse, Mallory Palmer, Anna Pederson Jac Ribota, Madigan Saunders, Charity Schultz, Helena Schultz, Madeline Svetin, Leah Totman, Teagan Guenther, Ella Tycz, Cara Viele and Delaney Young.

For the senior boys division — Cameron Ashby, Nic Bartone, Alex Gurney, Brian Hess, Devin Hoskins, Robby Hyde, Brendon Johnson, Dom Marco, Jeremy Vuong, Daniel Whittman, Ben Willertz, Sam Wright and Matthew Yost.

This is the final state meet for graduating seniors. This year’s senior class is Sophie Blair, Tara Jorgenson, Teagan Guenther, Zenaide McCarthy, Leah Totman, Sophia Kruse, Madeline Svetin, Anna Pederson, Devin Hoskins, Ben Willertz, Brian Hess and Jeremy Vuong.