Newsday's All-Long Island girls swimming team 2014

MAGGIE AROESTY
Long Island Swimmer of the Year
Long Beach
Aroesty doesn’t impose any limits on what she can do. When her family was displaced by Superstorm Sandy for a year, she continued to train and compete. She won the state title in the 100-yard breaststroke as a freshman last year, and came back and set the Nassau record in the 200-individual medley this year. She led in both the breaststroke and the medley in the state preliminaries, and then, she won state titles in both events — finishing the medley in an All-American timeof 2 minutes, .71 seconds and the breaststroke in a public school record time of 1:02.19. Soon after being named most outstanding swimmer of the state championships, she said she had her eye on the Federation breaststroke record of 1:01.14. For now, she’ll have to settle for the title of Newsday’s swimmer of the year.

CASEY GAVIGAN
Ward Melville, Swimmer
Gavigan became the Patriots’ first individual state champion in coach Chris Gorton’s 21 years, winning the 100 backstroke in 55.16. Gavigan, who also swims the 200 freestyle, the 200 medley relay and the 200 freestyle relay, also helped Ward Melville to its 23rd straight Suffolk championship.

KERRY GIOVANNIELLO
Bellmore-Merrick, Swimmer
At the state meet Giovanniello placed second in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:58.26, and anchored both freestyle relays. The 400 relay was third, before that, set a Nassau record of 3:34.08. Her split was 51.47 in the Nassau championship.

PAIGE KAPLAN
Bellmore-Merrick, Swimmer
The Notre Dame-bound Kaplan earned her first state title in four tries in the 100 butterfly, in 55.53. She joined Elizabeth Walsh, Georgeanne Zimmerman and Jaimie Kaefer on the 200 medley relay that finished fourth, and led Bellmore to second place overall in the state tournament.

MEGHAN SLATTERY
St. Anthony's, Swimmer
Slattery led her Friars to their fifth consecutive CHSAA title and fifth straight undefeated season, and her time of 52.17 was good for fourth place in the 100 freestyle. Slattery was the CHSAA MVP, and set a league record time of 24.22 in the 50 freestyle.

CARA TREBLE
Massapequa, Swimmer
Treble clocked the fastest time in the state preliminaries of the 200 freestyle (1:49.40), and finished second in the finals in 1.50.14. Her 51.22 in the 100 free netted her third place. In the Nassau championships, she won the 50 freestyle in 23.92.

RAYNA SMILOWITZ
Hewlett, Diver
Smilowitz was Long Island’s top finisher in the state meet, with a score of 482.45 — seventh in a field of 58. Last year she was 11th.

VICTORIA ZOZZARO
Wantagh, Diver
Zozzaro set a Nassau record with a 550.80 in the state qualifier, earned on the back of her inward double summersault tuck. She came in ninth in the state meet with a 478.85.

BELLMORE-MERRICK
400 FREESTYLE
Elizabeth Walsh, Fr.
Jessica Arana, Sr. (pictured)
Jaimie Kaefer, Sr.
Kerry Giovanniello, Sr.
Took third in the state meet with a time of 3:33.91 and set a Nassau record of 3:34.08 at the county meet.

CONNETQUOT
200 FREESTYLE
Emma Kopp, Fr. (second from left)
Michelle Wootton, Fr. (left)
Leah Russell, Fr. (second from right)
Katherine Green, Sr. (right)
Took sixth in 1:38.96 in the state meet, a major jump from their 19th place entry time. The unit also qualified in the 400 freestyle, finishing ninth in a school record 3:37.61, and helped lead Connetquot to an undefeated season in League II.

ROBERT KAEFER
Coach of the Year
Bellmore-Merrick