CLINTONVILLE — Records are meant to be broken.
This has never been more true than in the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference Invitational where five swimming school records were broken.
Toni Cussworth of Massena broke records in the 50 free and 100 back and St. Lawrence’s Sonja Wultsch-Fuller set new times in the 100 butterfly and 100 freestyle.
AuSable Valley’s Micali Johnson also rewrote her school’s record books in the 100 freestyle with a time of 56.79, breaking the previous time set by Emily McCormick of 57.27 set on October 11, 2016.
While records did fall, there was a competition held, which Peru won with 316 points. St. Lawrence was in second with 302 points.
Other Section VII schools in the meet were AuSable (163 points), Plattsburgh (142), Moriah (9) and Beekmantown (9).
The Nighthawks’ Helena Cordick and Mia Coupal were multi event winners. Both were on the winning 200 medley relay team.
Cordick also won the 500 freestyle while Coupal won the 200 individual medley and 100 butterfly.
The race of the day came in the 100 breaststroke. AuSable Valley’s Annie Manion won with a time of 1:21.00, 1/100 of a second ahead of Franklin Academy’s Piper Goeke at 1:21.01.
While Manion’s Patriot teammate Micali Johnson did set a new school record, she also won the 200 freestyle.
Cussworth’s two school records in the 50 free and 100 backstroke were also event wins.
Wultsch-Fuller’s also won the 100 freestyle with a new record, but tripled on the day being a part of the 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams.
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Peru 316. St. Lawrence 302. AuSable Valley 163. Franklin Academy 142. Plattsburgh 142. Massena 80. Moriah 9. Beekmantown 9
200 medley relay- 1. PCS ‘A’ (Cordick, Isecke, Coupal, Mero) 2:07.32. 2. FA ‘A’, 2:11.68. 3. AVCS ‘A’, 2:12.11
200 freestyle- 1. Johnson, AVCS, 2:08.54. 2. Besette, PCS, 2:23.41. 3. Chase, PCS, 2:25.92
200 IM- 1. Coupal, PCS, 2:30.21. 2. Hart, FA, 2:41.47. 3. Ki. Kretser, PHS, 2:50.23
50 freestyle- 1. Cussworth, MAS, 25.31. 2. Sheldon, SL, 26.98. 3. Mero, PCS, 27.30
100 butterfly- 1. Coupal, PCS, 1:02.98. 2. Wultsch-Fuller, SL, 1:03.09. 3. Ki. Kretser, PHS, 1:21.86
100 freestyle- 1. Wultsch-Fuller, SL, 55.75. 2. Johnson, AVCS, 56.79. 3. Sheldon, SL, 58.63
500 freestyle- 1. Cordick, PCS, 5:49.04. 2. Christodoulou, PHS, 6:19.52. 3. Belzile, AVCS, 6:54.93
200 freestyle relay- 1. SL ‘A’ (Williams, Fiacco, Sheldon, Wultsch-Fuller) 1:50.14. 2. PCS ‘A’, 1:53.52. 3. PHS ‘A’, 1:54.21
100 backstroke- 1. Cussworth, MAS, 1:00.64.2. Cordick, PCS, 1:06.66. 3. Crawford, FA, 1:12.86
100 breaststroke- 1. Manion, AVCS, 1:22.00. 2. Goeke, FA, 1:22.01. 3. Christodoulou, PHS, 1:24.35
400 freestyle relay- 1. SL ‘A’ (Wultsch-Fuller, Williams, Fiacco, Sheldon) 4:12.40. 2. FA ‘A’, 4:48.52. 3. AVCS ‘A’, 5:05.40.
*New School Record