Once again, Wenjun "Happy" Chang '18 was all smiles after a day in the pool. Happy won two individual events and took part in four school records at the Bud Erich Swimming and Diving Championship Feb. 25 at Hopkins School in New Haven, Conn.
The event served as the Western New England championship, regardless of division.
Happy touched first in the 200-yard individual medley (two minutes, 2.95 seconds) and the 100 breaststroke (1:00.21), topping the previous school marks of 2:04.61 in the 200 IM and 1:00.38 in the 100 breast.
Happy joined Jack Wilson '19, Alex Ravelli '18 and Cole Hansen '17 to win the 400 free relay in 3:23.27, bettering the previous record (3:30.82) by seven seconds. In the 200 free relay, Happy teamed with Daniel Voronin '17, Jack and Cole to placed third in a school record time of 1:33.89, which was .13 faster than the old mark (1:34.02).
"I knew I could get the (individual) records," Happy said. "I had been close to them. In the breaststroke I had done the school record time but it was a non-school meet. I hoped to go fast in the 100 breast – I was hoping to break one minute."
Ania Axas '19 set a school mark as well, breaking her previous record in the 200 free by .98 with a 1:55.82 to place second. Ania also placed third in the 500 free in 5:18.01.
"I'm pretty proud of myself," said Ania, who swam the 200 free before the 500 free. "I wasn't really expecting it. I wanted to do a 1:54 because that was my best time in a relay but my best time on my own is 1:56 so I'm really glad I beat it."
WMA's Lukas Stanton '18 won the diving competition, beating the second place finisher by nearly 27 points with a score of 337.10.
Also placing in the top six for the Titans were: Cole in the 100 back (58.97, second) and 50 free (23.40, fifth); Jack in the 200 IM (2:15.06, third) and 100 free (53.51, sixth); and Alex in the 200 free (1:51.01, third).
The WMA Boys' finished fourth in the field of 11 teams, while the Girls' placed 11 of 13.