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RE swimming claims multiple district titles at 2024 championships
Led by senior swimmers Nohan Gomez ’25 and Kiera Rampersad ’25 – each of whom won four gold medals – Ransom Everglades won the boys’ team championship and 11 individual races at the Florida High School Athletic Association 1A District 15 Championships at Belen Jesuit High School on October 29.
It was the 11th straight district title for RE’s boys’ team, which easily won the meet, scoring 601.5 points to 386 by Cutler Bay Senior High and 262.5 by Riviera Prep. Six teams competed in the meet on the boys’ side, with seven on the girls’ side. The RE girls finished second with 455 points to Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart (499). Both teams were led by RE Director of Aquatics Franz Huggins.
Gomez led RE sweeps of two individual races: the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. In the 100 fly, Gomez earned first in 51.73 20; Oliver Friedland ’26 scored second place (58.03) and Angelo Perez ’26 earned third (1:01.45). In the 100 backstroke, Gomez claimed first in 53.80 20; Ethan Sullivan ’25 got second in 58.61 17, and Connor Verbrugge ’28 claimed third in 1:00.30.
Gomez also helped RE to victory in the 400 free relay (Lincoln Broad ’26, Sullivan, Jay Holly ’26 and Gomez) and the 200 free relay in 1:30.23 with (Gomez, Broad, Sullivan and Holly).
Rampersad won gold in the 100-yard butterfly (55.67) and 100 breaststroke (1:07.63), and she helped two relay teams to gold: the 200 individual medley relay (Sophia Linfield ’26, Sophie Szutkowski ’28, Rampersad and Eleanor Kriplen ’28) and 400 freestyle relay (Linfield, Sydney Gould ’25, Szutkowski and Rampersad) teams.
Other notable finishes: In the boys’ 200 individual medley, Verbrugge earned first place (2:17.23) and Zubin Kamlani ’25 claimed second place (2:21.83). The girls earned two medals in the 100 backstroke, as Linfield finished first in 1:01.75 and Kriplen nabbed third in 1:07.00.
RE won the girls’ 200 freestyle relay in 1:45.13 with Casey Manno ’25, Kriplen, Sydney Gould and Chloe Jimenez ’26.
The RE boys claimed second in the 200 individual medley relay (Verbrugge, Aston Gould ’27, Friedland and Patricio De Lope ’25). In the boys’ 200 freestyle, Sullivan finished second (1:52.11) and Carlos Luchsinger ’26 finished third in 1:57.88. Luchsinger ’26 got second place (5:18.92) in the boys’ 500 free. In the boys’ 100 breaststroke, Aston Gould finished second (1:09.63 17), and Perez got third (1:10.56).
In the boys’ 50 free, Broad won second place (22.68) and Holly scored third (23.32). Broad also nabbed second in the boys’ 100 free in 51.18 and De Lope got third in 51.27.
Manno finished third in the girls’ 100 freestyle in 57.81. In the girls’ 50 freestyle, Kriplen earned second place (26.27) and Manno got third in 26.45. In the girls’ 200 individual medley, Linfield won third place (2:18.91).
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.