Athlete of the Issue Ben Galvez, Div. 257

Favorites:

Color: Green

Dessert: Molten lava cake from

Red Lobster where the cake is warm on the bottom. (Oh, so delicious).

Celebrity: Eva Longoria

Music: hip-hop or mash-ups

Team: Real Madrid

Hobbies: Hang out with friends,

play soccer, and cook.

Moment: “When we won the semi-finals and we walked out of the stadium through the doorway and were cheered by all of our fans.”

Achievement: “Being captain of

Varsity my senior year.”

Warrior: What did you have to sacrifice during the season?

BG: “My team and I really sacrificed our social lives. In the summer, starting August 8th, we had to wake up at 5:00 a.m. everyday just to go to practice until 11:00 a.m.”

Warrior: What is your biggest inspiration?

BG: The feeling of winning and gaining the respect throughout the state.

Warrior: Who is your biggest inspiration?

BG: “I had my dad always pushing me to be better than he was when he was my age. That was his biggest concern with me. And the fact I knew I’d never get these chances again really made me work hard.”

Senior swimmers fight emotions in final meet

By Madeline Savoie

As tears began to gather in the eyes of Hannah Viti, Div. 252, it was clear the pool was not going to be the only source of water works at the girls’ swim team’s senior night.

With the swim season coming to an end, and her decision not to continue swimming in college, Viti, current captain and Varsity member for four years, could not help but shed a few tears as the swim season draws to a close.

“A whole chapter of who I am as a person is over and it’s overwhelming,” Viti said.

Though co- captain and four year Varsity member Cassidy O’Connell, Div. 263, says she will, “probably end up crying,” Nov. 6 when the girls go to City, Senior Night left her with other emotions.

“It hasn’t really hit me yet that it’s almost the end of my last swim season as an Indian,” O’Connell said.

O’Connell instead embraced one of her last swim meets with enthusiasm and determination, as she has been known to do with every race, says her fellow Co-Captain Viti. She raced the 400 Individual Medley, composed of 4 laps of Backstroke, 4 Breaststroke, 4 Butterfly, and 4 freestyle, usually raced by 4 girls in a Medley Relay, just for the fun of it on her Senior Night. Even though she says some people call her crazy, she loves the 400 I.M. and was happy her coach allowed her to swim it on her last regular season meet.

“Tonight [senior night] I felt more loved then ever,” O’Connell said. “My family and friends were all here too support me and they truly made it special.

Though by the end of the evening, Viti was tearing up, she too gave this Senior Night meet her all. Both Viti and O’Connell trumped their own records yet again in the 200 – medley relay, with O’Connell swimming the breaststroke portion, and Viti swimming backstroke portion.

Both Viti and O’Connell said the hardest part about leaving the team was definitely going to be saying good- bye to the rest of the girls on the team.

“I’m at swim practice more than I’m at home,” Viti said. “It’s hard to say good- bye.”

“All four years the team has been my second family, when I graduate its going to be like leaving 40 sisters behind,” O’Connell said. “I’m going too miss them so much.”

At the end of the meet, Coach Rummelhoff introduced the seniors to the crowd.

“To be dedicated to a sport like this for four years takes a lot of time and effort,” Rummelhoff said. “They really are dedicated.”