NORWICH – The long awaited return to the pool for both the Norwich Purple Tornado and Greene Trojans varsity girls swim teams finally arrived on Tuesday March 16th as both squads opened their season, with the Tornado proving victorious 115-30.

Norwich took the top two spots in the 200 yard medley relay. The quarter of Abigail Hansen, Kaitlyn Blaisure, Tanner Olds, and Angela Carlson finished first in a time of 2:08.57. The second place squad consisted of the NHS crew Abigail Natoli, Adyson Whaley, Nina Kman and Mikayla Sastri who timed 2:18.90.

In the 200 yard freestyle, Norwich’s Julia Llewellyn finished first in a time of 2:33 while Greene’s Olivia Ketzak finished just three seconds behind to place second in the event.

Kaitlyn Blaisure took first place in the 200 Yard IM timing 2:36.13 along with taking home another number one finish in the 100 yard butterfly in a time of 1:17.79.

The Tornado’s Hansen and Sastri placed first and second respectively in the 50 yard freestyle with Hansen timing 27.88 and Sastri timing 29.54. Greene’s Skyler Nowalk finished just a split second behind in 30.81 to claim a third place finish in the race.