BAR HARBOR — Coaching transitions are never easy to make; when the outgoing coach is a program icon, those transitions are even more challenging. On Oct. 8, the Mount Desert Island swim team bid farewell to its head coach of 19 years, Tony DeMuro. DeMuro, whose 11 state championships at MDI include the past two …
BANGOR — Husson University freshman and 2019 Ellsworth High School graduate Ellie Clarke racked up the latest in a list of early-season honors last Wednesday when she was named Husson Female Athlete of the Week. In Husson’s Nov. 15 double-dual meet against Maine Maritime Academy and St. Joseph’s College, Clarke posted individual wins in the …
MOUNT DESERT — For the second year in a row, Ellsworth High School swimmers led the way in one of eastern Maine’s biggest outdoor swims. Ellsworth swimmers swept the men’s and women’s 500-yard and 1.5-mile events Saturday at the Bill Reeve Echo Lake Swim at Camp Beech Cliff. Nick Partridge (500-yard) and Sean Hill (1.5-mile) …
ELLSWORTH — Members of the Down East Family YMCA Dolphins set numerous state and team records over the weekend at the Maine Swimming Invitational in Saint John, N.B. At the state level, Nick Partridge set 50- and 100-meter breaststroke records in the boys’ 13-14 age group with times of 32.77 seconds and 1 minute, 9.21 …
ELLSWORTH — The 2018-19 high school swim season was an outstanding one locally, and it was Hancock County’s standout athletes who made it happen. Between championship wins and other remarkable performances, the area’s two biggest schools boasted some of the top individual and team efforts from the first meet to the last. The Ellsworth and …
ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth girls’ swim team recorded its best-ever finish at the state swim championships when it placed fifth of 21 teams in Monday’s Class B meet at the University of Maine. Senior Ellie Clarke, competing in her final meet for Ellsworth, set a team record in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of …
By Glenn Jordan Portland Press Herald ORONO — One week after falling to Ellsworth in the conference meet in the same pool, Mount Desert Island turned the tables Saturday with a convincing victory in the Class B boys’ swimming and diving state championships at the University of Maine. Led by two individual victories and a …
ORONO — Nearly a year to the day after the Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island boys’ swim teams fought to the wire for the conference title, the two delivered another classic showing. The Ellsworth boys edged MDI in another back-and-forth battle at the Penobscot Valley Conference championships Friday at the University of Maine. The meet …
ELLSWORTH — The last home meet for the Ellsworth swim team this season didn’t feel like the end; instead, it felt like a sendoff. True, it was the final home meet for 12 Ellsworth seniors, and there was no shortage of emotions as those swimmers entered and left the Down East Family YMCA pool. Yet …
ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth swim team posted a strong result in its final road meet of the season Friday with a sweep of Foxcroft at the Piscataquis Regional YMCA. On the boys’ side, the Eagles won every individual and relay event to claim a 129-15 team win. The Ellsworth girls’ team topped Foxcroft 109-32, winning …
ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth swim team began the home stretch of the 2018-19 regular season Friday with a sweep of visiting Old Town at the Down East Family YMCA. The Eagles came away with a 97-73 win over the Coyotes on the girls’ side and a 105-48 victory on the boys’ side. It was the …
BAR HARBOR — The passion and intensity of the Ellsworth vs. Mount Desert Island rivalry filled the Bar Harbor air last week, and the warmth of the pool deck provided a welcome reprieve from the bitter cold. Ellsworth and MDI continued their successful 2018-19 swim seasons Friday with a dual meet at the MDI YMCA. …
