Commonwealth Current-North Winter Classic @ Haverhill HS Saturday, January 10th & Sunday 11th Our Porpoises had a great return to competitive action to kick-off the second half of the short course season last weekend in Haverhill and the Commonwealth Current-North Winter Classic. Our age group swimmers continued their solid and steady improvement with many great swims, and our senior swimmers looked great after the holiday break as they work to return to top form in March as our championship meets approach. A special congratulations to George Soucy (Challenge) who swam...

Mid-Season Championship Meets WPI & NES Senior Champs December 12th - 14th & December 18th - 21st The great performances of the 2025-2026 season continued at our mid-season meets the past two weekends. Our Porpoise swimmers achieved many new personal best times, and many established new qualifying times for the upcoming championship meet season coming up over the next three months. So far this season it has been a steady and consistent path of good races and personal improvement that has been very enjoyable to work with and watch as...

Upper Valley Aquatics 2025 NE UVAC Dorsi Raynolds Memorial Meet @ Upper Valley Aquatic Center November 7th – November 9th PPSC had another great meet at White River Junction last weekend with many swimmers achieving new best times (again!), while winning rubber ducks (heat winners) and ribbons in the 12 & under age group. Much of this success has come from swimmers in groups working well together and supporting one another, as well as our Porpoises across the groups doing a fantastic job at meets cheering and on and congratulating...

Bluefish Swim Club Boofish Halloween Invite October 24th & 25th @ Cape Elizabeth High School PPSC continued it’s great early fall performances at the Boofish Invite this past weekend in Cape Elizabeth, just a short time after a very successful first meet of the 2025-26 season. All of our swimmers competed very well, earning new personal best times, achieving New England Championship meet qualifying times, as well as achieving a few ISCA Championship meet times for the spring meet in St Petersburg, Florida. Congratulations to Reggie Spears-Harr, Violet Richards, Lily...

ABF Maine Spookfest Team Invite At Cape Elizabeth HS Friday, 10/25 – Sunday, 10/27 We had a great team meet at the Spookfest Invitational last weekend! Congratulations to all swimmers who competed and in particular to: Elise Amory, Noam Atkinson, Cecilia Bose, Alice Bose, Gabriel Bravo, Roxy Flynn, Laurel King, Elias Light, Pranav Maddineni, Lucia Maher, Lucy Marett, Rowan McGough, Hudson Turner, and Lina Shingiro for competing in their first official swim meet! Also, congratulations to Olive Soucy for making her way for the first time on to the PPSC...

ALL End of Season Meets & Championship Meets Report 10 & Under New England Swimming Championships @ Upper Valley Aquatic Center, VT Thomas Barrera (8) 100 Back 1:37.02 100 Free 1:25.46 200 Free 3:15.55 25 Back 19.81 25 Free 17.82 50 Back 43.27 50 Free 38.21 Reese Baxter (8) 25 Fly 20.64 25 Free 18.88 50 Fly 51.70 50 Free 43.80 New England Swimming 11 – 14 Championships @ Boston Sports Institute, Wellesley, MA Wyatt Libby (14) 100 Breaststroke 1:11.50 100 Free 54.47 200 Breaststroke 2:35.88 50 Free 25.10 New...

New England Swimming Silver Championship @ Beverly, YMCA Friday, February 2nd – Sunday, February 4th The Maine Gator branch had a great Silver championship meet at the Beverly YMCA with many great races and a lot of cheering for teammates the other weekend, especially our young Gator swimmers! Taylan Gurcan (9) and Peyton Richards (9) recorded their first ever USA Swimming National Age Group Motivational times, and Gigi Bean (12) and Louise Davis (9) recorded their first ever ‘BB’ times! We have about a month to go in the short...

Westbrook SEALs January Specialty Meet @ Westbrook, Maine Saturday, January 20th Our Maine Gators had yet another fantastic meet, highlighted by the achievements of many of our young age groups swimmers at the Westbrook January specialty meet! Congratulations and great work to all that attended and to Anna Tzucker for competing in her first official swim meet! Individual Times Performances Anna Barrera (6) 50 Back 59.81 50 Free 54.59 Thomas Barrera (8) 100 IM 1:45.79 50 Fly 52.82 50 Free 38.23 Gavin Baxter (11) 100 Back 1:19.18 100 Fly 1:38.02...

New England Swimming Bronze Championship @ Seekonk, Massachusetts Friday, January 19th – Sunday, January 21st Our group of Maine Gators traveled to the Seekonk branch and represented themselves and our location with some great competitive efforts and notching many new personal best times for the Bronze championship meet. We even had a few new qualifications for the Silver meet which represents the next step up the ladder in the New England championship meet format. Many of our swimmers also had the opportunity to participate on relays with the other branches...

Phoenix Swim Club @ Boston University January 5th & 6th The Maine Gators did a great job getting back into the competition schedule following the holiday break at Boston University. It was great to be back at the BU pool and each swimmer did a fantastic job fitting two days worth of events into one as the meet was shortened due to weather. Congratulations to Ben Zaslavksy and Carter VerLee for competing in their first 1,650 free, and Gavin Baxter in his first 400 IM. Individual Times Performances Gavin Baxter...