OWEGO – A team without a single senior, a team with a new varsity head coach, a team that held over a .500 regular season record and sent nine girls to the finals of the Section IV Class B championship.

Norwich concluded their postseason – and therefore their 2016 fall season – on a very high note.

“No big surprises. This was a building year. We needed to lay the foundation. We went into the season knowing which meets we would win and which ones we would not win, and no amount of finagling the line up was going to change that,” said Norwich head coach Saundra Gantt. “They were tired all season, and they all swam

faster at the end of the season. It was a successful championship meet and season.”

Prior to the nine Tornado athletes advancing to the finals in Owego on Nov. 5; the Tornado girls first had to travel to Waverly for the preliminary round of sectionals on Nov. 2.

The Tornado swimmers ripped through their competition during the preliminary rounds; taking a total of 96 seconds off their personal best times as a unit, as well as having Maya Blaisure break the Waverly Pool record and Norwich High School record in the 100 Breast stroke – with a time of 1:08.81.