Greenwich High School girls swimmers earn NISCA All-America honors; Payton Foster an All-American in four events

By David Fierro on July 30, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

**Photo by David Fierro:** Payton Foster, who graduated from Greenwich High School in June 2024, achieved NISCA All-America swimming honors in three events for the 2023 season.

The National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association recently released its All-America lists for each high school girls swimming event and Greenwich High School was exceptionally well-represented.

The Cardinals earned NISCA All-American honors in four events, with 2024 Greenwich High School graduate Payton Foster earning All-America accolades in each of the four events. Foster swam to NISCA All-America honors for the 2023-2024 season in the 200-yard individual medley.

She received NISCA All-America honors in the 200 individual medley by posting a time of 2:00.81, the 39th fastest time in the nation. The swimmers with the top 100 times in each event earned NISCA All-America accolades. Foster’s All-America time of 2:00.81 came at the 2023 CIAC State Open Championships at Yale University, where he recorded a first-place finish in the race.

Foster will soon continue her academic and swimming careers at Harvard University. The 500-yard freestyle is also a race that Foster swam to a NISCA All-America time. She won the gold medal in the event at the 2023 State Open Championships in a NISCA All-America time of 4:51.89, the 37th fastest time in the country. She is a three-time NISCA All-America athlete.

**Contributed photo**: Greenwich High School girls swimming coach Brendan Heller, right and Payton Foster display awards at the conclusion of the 2023 FCIAC Swimming Championships at Greenwich High School. Foster was the Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet, which was won by the Cardinals.

Coached by Brendan Heller, the Cardinals had a season to remember last fall, winning the team title at the State Open Championships with a team score of 663 points. They also won the team title at the Class LL Championships (925 team points) and the FCIAC Championships (465 points). Foster was the Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet at the 2023 FCIAC Championships.

Greenwich’s 200-yard medley relay team also earned 2023-2024 NISCA All-America honors. Foster, Sydney Jee, Sena Bozkurt and Sofie Wang posted All-America accolades in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:44.50. Foster, Jee, Bozkurt and Wang achieved the All-America showing at the FCIAC Championships, which was held at GHS. Their time is ranked 61st on the NISCA All-America list. Jee also graduated from GHS last month and will soon take her swimming skills to Bucknell University.

**Contributed photo by Brendan Heller:** Sena Bozkurt, front, left, Sydney Jee, front right, Sofie Wang, back left and Payton Foster, back right, registered NISCA All-America honors in the 200-yard medley relay.

The 200-yard freestyle relay event is a race the Cardinals posted an All-America performance as well. Wang, Kensie Worden, a rising sophomore, Wesley Wales, an incoming junior and Foster recorded a NISCA All-America time of 1:35.82 while winning the 200 freestyle relay race at the CIAC Class LL Championships this past fall.

Wang, Worden, Wales and Foster also registered an impressive time of 1:35.86 in the 200 freestyle relay at the CIAC State Open, placing an extremely close second in the event behind Ridgefield (1:35.79).