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Video: See Waverly’s Mira Kittle win 50 freestyle at Elmira meet
Waverly’s Mira Kittle swims to first place within the 50-yard freestyle on the Elmira Girls Swimming & Diving Invitational on Oct. 24, 2025.
- The Elmira Girls Swimming & Diving Invitational raised $1,850 for breast most cancers assist organizations.
- Horseheads, Maine-Endwell and Lansing repeated as staff champions of their respective divisions.
- Waverly senior Mira Kittle was a quadruple-winner, reaching state-qualifying occasions in three occasions.
The Elmira Girls Swimming & Diving Invitational featured prime performances and a big contribution as a part of the Splash for a Cure fundraiser.
Through donations and proceeds from the two-day occasion, $1,850 was raised for the Women in Pink Foundation (WINK) for organizations that assist breast most cancers remedy, analysis and consciousness.
Seven performances hit the usual wanted to qualify for this season’s New York state championship meet.
Swimming capped the invitational Saturday at Ernie Davis Academy following Friday’s diving competitors.
Team titles for Horseheads, M-E, Lansing
The 14-team invitational was divided into three divisions.
Horseheads captured the Class A title with 359 factors, Maine-Endwell was Class B champ with 398 factors and Lansing took Class C with 304.
All three had been repeat winners from final 12 months.
Waverly’s Kittle a quadruple-winner
The prime swimmer in Section 4 this season is Waverly senior Mira Kittle, who lived as much as that billing Saturday with two particular person victories and a pair of relay triumphs. In three occasions, Kittle eclipsed the state commonplace.
She opened the day by becoming a member of Olivia Cheresnowsky, Natalie Steck and Meg Atanasoff in setting a pool document within the 200-yard medley relay in 1:49.23. The earlier mark of 1:49.87 was set in 2021 by Horseheads.
Kittle gained the 50 freestyle in 24.03, the 100 backstroke in 57.44 and joined Lauryn Welles, Audrey Kellogg and Cheresnowsky in successful the 400 freestyle relay in 3:50.58.
Only the 400 relay time was above the state commonplace.
Other prime performances
- Horseheads’ title was led by senior Mia Carro, who gained the 200-yard particular person medley in 2:16.97 and the 100 butterfly in 1:00.52.
- Atanasoff hit the state reduce along with her runner-up time of 24.57 within the 50 freestyle to go along with a win within the 100 freestyle in 54.48, simply off the usual of 54.36.
- Waverly’s 200 freestyle relay of Kellogg, Atanasoff, Welles and Brynna Twedt eclipsed the state commonplace with a successful time of 1:41.08.
- In Friday’s diving, winner Ayla Young of Owego Free Academy (548.5) and runner-up Olivia Tanton of Vestal (525.6) had been properly above the state commonplace of 440.
Elmira Girls Swimming & Diving Invitational outcomes
Class A staff scores: Horseheads 359, Corning 255, Vestal 225, Elmira 204, Binghamton 134.
Class B staff scores: Maine-Endwell 398, Waverly 296, Chenango Valley 204, Owego Free Academy 145.
Class C staff scores: Lansing 304, Dryden 290, Chenango Forks 216, Elmira Notre Dame 148, Watkins Glen/Odessa-Montour 29.
Top finishers
200-yard medley relay: 1-Waverly (Olivia Cheresnowsky, Natalie Steck, Meg Atanasoff, Mira Kittle) 1:49.23; 2-Corning 1:57.1; 3-Horseheads 1:57.19.
200 freestyle: 1-Ellie Ballard (Corning) 2:05.7; 2-Makenna Leonard (CV) 2:06.52; 3-Ava Murphy (OFA) 2:08.0.
200 IM: 1-Mia Carro (Horseheads) 2:16.97; 2-Yih Hui Lim (Vestal) 2:20.45; 3-Yih Xinn Lim (Vestal) 2:24.73.
50 freestyle: 1-Mira Kittle (Waverly) 24.03; 2-Meg Atanasoff (Waverly) 24.57; 3-Lauryn Welles (Waverly) 25.12.
Diving: 1-Ayla Young (OFA) 548.5; 2-Olivia Tanton (Vestal) 525.60; 3-Makenzie Blauvelt (Horseheads) 435.95.
100 butterfly: 1-Mia Carro (Horseheads) 1:00.52; 2-Ava Murphy (OFA) 1:02.93; 3-Yih Hui Lim (Vestal) 1:06.81.
100 freestyle: 1-Meg Atanasoff (Waverly) 54.48; 2-Lauryn Welles (Waverly) 54.94; 3-Audrey Kellogg (Waverly) 56.43.
500 freestyle: 1-Vanessa Downey (Lansing) 5:35.16; 2-Ellie Ballard (Corning) 5:35.88; 3-Makenna Leonard (CV) 5:46.08.
200 freestyle relay: 1-Waverly (Audrey Kellogg, Meg Atanasoff, Lauryn Welles, Brynna Twedt) 1:41.08; 2-Horseheads 1:44.08; 3-Maine-Endwell 1:50.07.
100 backstroke: 1-Mira Kittle (Waverly) 57.44; 2-Karina Lapierre (Horseheads) 1:01.68; 3-Olivia Cheresnowsky (Waverly) 1:01.83.
100 breaststroke: 1-Alexys Nale (Corning) 1:10.39; 2-Frances Miller (Binghamton) 1:11.81; 3-Natalie Steck (Waverly) 1:13.09.
400 freestyle relay: 1-Waverly (Lauryn Welles, Audrey Kellogg, Olivia Cheresnowsky) 3:50.58; 2-Maine-Endwell 4:03.29; 3-Vestal 4:03.63.
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