Contact: Eugenia Gillan Phone: 978-886-7075

ANA Synchers Take 10 Gold, 4 Silver Medals at NESSA Meet

ANA Synchers competitors are used to being challenged by this team, but they no doubt felt the pressure last weekend at the New England
Synchronized Swimming Association Junior/Senior Meet and Age Group Invitational held in Worcester, MA. The ANA Synchers, the
synchronized swim team from the local YMCA, took home an incredible ten gold medals, placing first in every event they competed in.
ANA Synchers were also awarded the prestigious "Senior Trophy," given to the team with the most points in the division.

In the Junior division, the ANA Synchers including: Amber Blum, Rebecca Ely, Caitlyn MacGregor, Laina Gray and Alice Rogers of North
Andover and Sheila Cremin, Emily Stone and Candace Ju of Andover took the first place finish for their team routine. ANA took both gold
and silver for their trio routines with swimmers Emily Stone, Amber Blum and Sheila Cremin receiving gold and Caitlyn MacGregor, Candace
Ju and Laina Gray taking home silver. Recognizing outstanding performance in the duet category, judges once again awarded ANA Synchers
both the gold and silver medals. Swimmers Rebecca Ely and Emily Stone took the top honors and Caitlyn MacGregor and Alison Ziel took silver.
Rounding out an outstanding day for the ANA Synchers Juniors division, Alison Ziel of North Andover won a gold medal for her solo performance.

Yes this really was a tough day to be an ANA Synchers competitor. Not only did the Junior division take gold in the trio, duet and solo categories,
the Senior division did the same. Top honors for the senior trio were awarded to ANA's Kelly Mahoney and Erica Potts of Andover and Claire
Rudder of Sudbury. Maggie Conlon of Methuen and Melissa Andrews of Chepachet, RI took first for their tango duet and Meagan Arsenault of
Methuen and Jessica Mancini of Andover took home a silver for their Russian duet. ANA took the top two finishes again in the senior solo category
with the gold going to Melissa Andrews and the silver to Jessica Mancini. In the senior figures category, Maggie Conlon and Melissa Andrews added
to their medal counts, with Conlon earning gold and Andrews taking the silver. In the same category, their teammate, Meagan Arsenault earned the
bronze medal. Emily Stone also earned a bronze in junior figures. In the 13-15 Age Group category Marian Crockett and Christine Wu of Andover
and Alyson Arsenault of Methuen placed first for a beautiful trio performance.

This was a great day for every ANA Synchers swimmer but three athletes, Emily Stone of Andover, Melissa Andrews of Chepachet, RI and Maggie
Conlon of Methuen, should be highlighted as they each earned an incredible three gold medals!

For information on upcoming events including the annual show held at the Andover/North Andover YMCA, April 26-27, find ANA Synchers online at
www.anasynchers.org. To find out more about becoming a synchronized swimmer or coach, please contact head coach Eugenia Gillan at 978-886-7075
or at eugeniagillan@yahoo.com.