Greenwich High School’s varsity girls swimming team celebrated its Senior Day in perfect style.

The Cardinals continued their perfect season on their Senior Day Oct. 17th with a decisive 100-78 win over visiting Norwalk/McMahon in an FCIAC meet, improving their record to 7-0. The defending CIAC Class LL champion Cardinals showed their depth and skill in each event on their way to their latest victory.

“Norwalk is a great team, they got third in Class LL last year, so we didn’t take them lightly,” GHS coach Brendan Heller said. ‘We did enough to get the job done and sometimes that’s all you can do. 

The meet started with the quartet of junior Ellison Charette, junior Kensington Worden, Melissa Geiger, a junior, and Lily Norton, a senior, winning the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:55.09. Greenwich’s Wesley Wales, a senior, Isabel Guzman, also a senior, junior Julia Kozma and senior Ainsley Sahrbeck finished in second place in 1:55.86.

In the 200-yard freestyle, senior Kate Fedor gave Norwalk/McMahon a first-place finish in 1:59.57. Olivia DeVries, a sophomore, was second with a time of 2:02.45 and in third place was GHS teammate Sara Jee, a sophomore (2:06.26). Right behind her was Annalie Whitridge also of the Cardinals, who placed fourth in 2:06.31.

Emma Giafardino, a sophomore, won the 200-yard individual medley for Norwalk/McMahon, registering a time of 2:11.79. Geiger was the runner-up for the Cardinals in the 200 IM (2:18.18). Isadora Nassa, a junior, placed third in the race (2:18.42) and Kozma took fourth (2:20.51).

Wales was the 50-yard freestyle winner for the Cards, clocking in at 25.76 seconds. Sahrbeck had a second place finish in 26.36 and right behind her was Norton (26.54).

Greenwich has been bolstered by its group of divers all season long and such was the case against Norwalk/McMahon. Freshman Alden Charette won the 1-meter diving competition, compiling 271.65 points over six rounds.

Senior Olivia DeVito was the runner-up in the diving event posting 199.50 points for the Cardinals. Teammate Clementine Whittle, a sophomore, took third on the 1-meter diving board (186.15 points) for the Cards. The 100-yard butterfly race saw Geiger touch the wall first in 59.69 seconds. Emma Giafardino was the runner-up for Norwalk/McMahon (1:01.37). Worden took third in 1:02.00 for GHS.

Ellison Charette gave Greenwich a first-place finish in the 100 freestyle touching the wall in 55.57 seconds. Chloe Ableman, a senior, was second for Norwalk/McMahon (56.84) and Greenwich junior Annalie Whitridge took third with a time of 57.56.

DeVries took top honors for the meet in the 500-yard freestyle, showing her stamina by posting a winning time of 5:19.64 Fedor of Norwalk/McMahon placed second (5:23.19) and Kozma was third (5:25.15). The 200 freestyle relay race also went to Greenwich, with Geiger, Jee, Whitridge and Wales teaming up for a 1:43.45 finish.

Greenwich swam exhibition in the 100 backstroke, but freshman Meredith McDermott had the top time in the race for the Cards (1:03.91). Isabel Guzman had the meet’s best time in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.96). The Cardinals foursome of junior Ava Burnstine, Worden, Kozma and Nassa combined for the meet’s best time in the 400 freestyle relay (3:49.11).

Greenwich paid tribute to its seniors during the meet and following the meet the Cardinals held a special Senior Day ceremony. Heller mentioned how significant the seniors on the squad are to the team’s success.

“They’re great, when they started in 2022, I was a little nervous coming into the season, because we lost a lot of people through graduation and people not returning to the team,” he said. “Then we got this class and we struggled a little bit that year, but they learned so much about the team culture and started working together. When they came back in 10^th grade, they were phenomenal and they’ve been the heartbeat of the team all four years, so they’re pretty great.”

Victoria Bruno, Natalia Carrasco Velazquez, Olivia DeVito, Melissa Geiger, Isabel Guzman, Kristen Jacks, Lily Norton, Ainsley Sahrbeck and Wesley Wales are Greenwich’s seniors. DeVito, Geiger, Guzman, Sahrbeck and Wales are the Cards’ captains.

On Oct. 15th, Greenwich experienced its most competitive meet of the season, pulling out a 96-89 win over Ridgefield, the defending FCIAC and CIAC State Open champion.

“It was a lot of fun, we knew it was going to be a tight meet,” Heller said of the Ridgefield meet. “They hadn’t been in too many close meets yet, so I didn’t know what to expect. I just know they have a dominant freshman class, so I thought we would be pretty closely matched.”

“They came out and they won the first race, the second race, the third race,” Heller said of the Ridgefield meet. “The tide changed a little bit when we won the 50 free – Kensington Worden – so that was a big momentum boost for us. We picked up six points in diving the night before, so we came out of diving down three and then we just kept battling. Melissa Geiger had a huge win in the 100 butterfly, Julia Kozma had a huge finish in the 100 butterfly as well. Then we had first and second in the 100 free. Once that happened, the tide shifted, we had the momentum, we took the lead.”

Greenwich closes out its 2025 regular season with a road meet against FCIAC rival Darien on Oct. 22 at 3 p.m.