The Rye/Rye Neck/Blind Brook girls swimming and diving team is coming off a 7-2 season in League 1, the area’s most competitive swim/dive conference. The squad handed Eastchester its first defeat in two years and sent six swimmers to the 2024 state championship meet.
Despite the successful season, the team wasn’t able to accumulate points in the league and section championships because of a Section 1 rule change. As of last season, rosters made up of merged schools can no longer score team points.
“We would have placed fifth at the league championship, seventh at the sectional championship, and 18th at the state championship meet if we were able to score team points,” said coach Katie Konopka.
Eight swimmers and one diver competed at the 2024 section championship, and the team graduated 10 seniors. This season’s seniors include Emilia Boccini (Blind Brook), Sophie Boyle (Rye), Scarlett Colombini (Rye Neck), Grayson Findlay (Rye Neck), and Ella Godden (Rye).
Although they can’t score points as a team in the postseason, Konopka believes there is still plenty of individual success to be had for area swimmers and divers.
“The expectations for this season are to get as many best times, best dive scores, sectionals qualifiers, and state qualifiers as possible,” Konopka said.
