The Winter Arts program is set to begin the week of January 4 with a mix of pre-registered and drop-in programming available. We will offer a Fine Arts Class schedule that will include Drawing (Mondays), Painting (Tuesdays), Sculpture (Wednesdays), Boys Art (Thursdays), Girls Art (Thursdays) and Arts & Crafts (Fridays). With the exception of Thursday’s Boys/Girls Art Classes, which will run at 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. respectively, each remaining medium will have a class for Bantams/Cadets (ages 6 to 9) at 3:30 and a class for Juniors (ages 10-12) at 4:30 p.m. These classes require pre-registration.
For our older artists look for the following schedule of classes to be offered in the evenings starting at 6:30 p.m. – Fashion Photography (Mondays), Open Art (Tuesdays), Beginning Photography (Wednesdays), Teen Art (Thursdays) and Open Art (Fridays).
These classes are in addition to a weekday Gamesroom Art class offered at 3 p.m. While the Winter classes are taking place the program staff will also be busy preparing works created by members over the past year to be entered into Boys and Girls Clubs of America’s National Fine Arts and Photography competitions. For more information on the Arts program please contact Donna Seery at ext. 1320.
Marr-lins Host South Boston & Chelsea Clubs
The Marr-lin Swim Team hosted the South Boston and Chelsea Clubs in the first tri-meet of the season. The Marr-lins did very well at the meet as their collective individual races helped them to take all five age groups. There were many outstanding individual performances during the meet including the following swimmers in the 8 & under age group: Michael Kerr (25 yd. Freestyle 28.75), Allie Murphy (25 yd. Freestyle 24.59), Audra Garvey (25 yd. Butterfly 36.19), Jesus Rodriguez (25 yd. Butterfly 27.06 & 50 yd. Freestyle 42.06), Emma Murphy (50 yd. Freestyle 36.16 – a New Team Record), William Sobchuk (50 yd. Freestyle 1:02.03), Mark Garside (25 yd. Backstroke 32.31), Denise O’Donovan (25 yd. Backstroke 34.73), Sachi Vicente (25 yd. Breaststroke 42.18), Clare McCarthy (25 yd. Breaststroke 29.85) and Sydney Denver (25 yd. Breaststroke 45.59). Representing the 10 & under age group are: Brenna Kirby (100 yd. I.M. 1:58.19), Carlos Serrano (50 yd. Freestyle 1:03.50), Emily Mischler (50 yd. Freestyle 36.91), Tillie Smith (50 yd. Freestyle 44.84), Molly O’Halloran (50 yd. Butterfly 58.16), Grace Scuzzarella (50 yd. Butterfly 39.25), Jasmine Burgos (50 yd. Butterfly 56.59), Gavin Doherty (50 yd. Butterfly 1:01.50), Teresa Flaherty (100 yd. Freestyle 1:46.49), Victoria Smith (100 yd. Freestyle 1:40.84), Andrew Arcieri (50 yd. Backstroke 1:16.53), Sarah O’Donovan (50 yd. Breaststroke 54.72), Aine Curran (50 yd. Breaststroke 1:08.93) and Abigayle Crisman (50 yd. Breaststroke 1:04.50).
New personal best times from our 12 & under swimmers include: Breena Baird (100 yd. I.M. 1:34.75), Colleen Garside (50 yd. Freestyle 35.69), Juan Rodriguez (50 yd. Freestyle 39.25), Jessica Hernandez (50 yd. Freestyle 41.60), Emily Suslowicz (50 yd. Freestyle 42.33), Valerie Trabucco (50 yd. Freestyle 50.91), Jake MacKinnon (50 yd. Butterfly 34.93), Niamh Kerr (50 yd. Butterfly 52.87), Paul Lafferty (50 yd. Butterfly 58.03), Kristen Fields (100 yd. Freestyle 1:10.53), Justyna Malek (100 yd. Freestyle 1:13.94), Evlyn Scuzzarella (50 yd. Backstroke 38.60), Jack Sobchuk (50 yd. Backstroke 47.90) and Sophie Phillips (50 yd. Backstroke 1:02.28).
Lastly, our swimmers ages 13 and older posting new personal bests include: Matthew Turner (200 yd. Freestyle 2:34.62), Joshua Johnson (50 yd. Freestyle 29.78), Jade Rivera (50 yd. Freestyle 33.00), Caroline O’Brien (50 yd. Freestyle 37.47), Shannon Casey (100 yd. Freestyle 1:19.23), Emily Carvalho (100 yd. Backstroke 1:38.62), Deirdre Newell (100 yd. Backstroke 1:42.47), Jack O’Halloran (100 yd. Breaststroke 1:52.20), Nora Doherty (200 yd. I.M. 2:49.63), Jazmyn Carr (50 yd. Freestyle 36.50) and Martin Chomicki (50 yd. Freestyle 28.60).
Next up for the Marr-lins will be meets against Billerica A (1/2), Lawrence (1/9), Charlestown (1/16), Billerica B (1/23) and Nashua (1/30) before the team heads to the N.E.N.E.A.P.C. League Championship Meet scheduled for 2/6 & 2/7 at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. For more information on the Marr-lin Swim Team, or any of our other Aquatic programs, please contact Aquiles Gomes at (617) 288-7120, ext. 2220.
