It's a bit tardy in giving proper notice, but the athletes on the Boys and Girls Club of East Providence Tidal Waves youth swim squad late this past spring went undefeated in winning their dual meet regular season title and next captured the 2024 Rhode Island/Massachusetts League meet championship, the latter for the first time since 2010.

As to be expected, the Waves had a number of top performances in the championship meet, including in the girls' 8-and-under division where Ambri Fonseca won the 25 yard freestyle event in 17.99. Teammates Quinn Bently-Henry, Ramona Marchetti and Eden Gaetano finished fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.

Fonseca added a victory in the 100 yard individual medley (free, breast, fly and back strokes) with a time of 1:37.63.

Nora Dias led a 1-2-3 Waves' sweep of the 25 yard butterfly in 23.33. She was followed by Bently-Henry in second at 25.09 and Charlotte Palmaccio third in 25.87.

Dias, Fonseca, Marchetti and Bently-Henry teamed to win the division's 100 yard medley relay in 1:32.29.

In the girls' 9-10-year-old ranks, the Waves team of Sofia Vasconcelos, Isabel McKinney, Juliette Thibeault and Bree Larkin took the 200 free relay in 2:50.04. Another local entry was second as Amiyah Smith, Jarianna Lugo, Camille Campeau and Charlotte Mulcahy clocked a 2:54.53.

Also from the girls' 9-10s, Adele Attar and Sydney Kingman were second and third in the division's 50 free while Kingman, Zelda Marchetti and Hadley McGair went 2-4 in the 50 back.

In the girls' 11-12-year-old section. the Waves' Khloe Amaral won the 50 back in 34.75. Sylvie Herzlinger was third and Kaylee Collins fourth. Helen Messitt won the 50 breast in 40.02. Messett, Amaral, Herzlinger and Kiera Gallogly took the 200 medley relay in a winning time of 2:21.18. Of note as well, Amaral, Collins and Messitt went 2-4 in the 100 IM.

Up an age group, Laina Fonseca won the girls' 13-14 200 IM in 2:32.13. She added a victory in the 100 back in 1:17.40
with mate Maura Roche the runner-up in 1:21.39. Fonseca's winning ways also included the 200 IM in 2:32.13. In addition, she was part of the Waves victorious 200 medley relay team along with Roche, Sadie Gilfillan and Lilly Silvia with a time of 2:16.81.

On the boys' side of the ledger, Colton Esteves, Dominic Dominques and Jack Bently-Henry went 1-2-3 in the 8U free with times of 21.12, 21.49 and 21.84, respectively. Bently-Henry won the 25 breast in 34.04. And Esteves, Bently-Henry and Dominques teamed with Hayden Rennie to win the 100 free relay in 1:29.03.

Luke DeMoura and Connor Krawczyk recorded wins for the Waves in the boys' 11-12-year-old level, the former taking the 50 free in 29.42 and 50 back in 34.72 with the latter winning the 100 IM in 1:13.94.

Lucas Zonfrillo was part of the two Waves' wins in the 13-14-year-old grouping, taking the 100 back in 1:02.95 while teaming with Peter Breen, Charlie Boline and Bevin Boutin-Gammon to win the 200 free relay in 1:48.77.

And lastly in the boys' 15-18 division, Nick Capobianco picked up a pair of solo wins (59.45, 100 back and 2:15.55, 200 IM) and joined up with Ryan Branch, Ryan Boline and Drew Gilliatt to capture the 200 free relay in 1:45.33.

The locals enjoyed other successes in the grouping as Boline won the 50 free in 25 flat and Branch took the 100 free in 53.52.