The Mt. Hope High School swimmers participated in the 2025 Rhode Island Interscholastic League State Championship Meets Sunday, March 2, at Brown University.

The MHHS boys opened action in the morning, earning 79 points to place 13th in the team standings. Bishop Hendricken won its record 35th boys' title with 268 points, eight better than the runner-up South County co-op, composed of athletes from Prout, Chariho, Narragansett and South Kingstown. North Kingstown was third with 243.

Finn Pansa scored in a pair of individual events for the Huskies. The junior clocked a time of 1 minute, 49.22 seconds to finish sixth in the 200-yard freestyle and added a time of 49.56 to finish seventh in the 100 free. Cohen Ferreira also had a solo placement for the locals. The senior was 11th in the 100-yard breaststroke with a 1:07.58.

Cohen also swam legs of Mt. Hope relays that scored. He, sophomores Liam Gagner and Kieran Randle along with freshman Ben Coles placed 13th in the 200-yard medley. In the 400, Ferreira, Pansa, junior Sam Coles and Ben Coles were 10th in 3:48.04. And in the 200 free relay, the same quartet as the 4 set a new school record with a time of 1:38.12 to place sixth.

The MHHS girls followed in the afternoon, the Huskies finishing 16th as a team with 31 points. Barrington added to its record haul of titles, 16, by winning its 11th consecutive girls' championship with 394 points. N.K. was a distant second with 208 and Classical third with 200.

Freshman standout Olivia Taylor placed in two individual events for the locals, swimming 1:03.11 to finish ninth in the 100 backstroke and 1:08.17 to finish 16th in the 100 butterfly. Junior Jessica Deal chipped in a solo 14th with a time of 2:12.32 in the 200 free.

Deal and Taylor were joined by sophomores Hazel Bradley and Emma Quigley in clocking a time of 4:12.12 to place 10th in the 400 free relay.

— East Bay Media Group and eastbayri.com staff photographer Rich Dionne shot the accompanying gallery of photos.