Bay View Swim Team Takes Home Top Honors At Championships

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The St. Mary Academy Bay View Academy swim team took home top honors in this year's championships. The team broke several school and personal records at the competition.

Gianna Spremullo, a junior from Cranston, won two gold medals for the second year in a row at the Rhode Island Interscholastic League. Spremullo won both the 200-yard individual medley with a time of two minutes, 4.59 seconds, and the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 56.07 seconds, breaking the school records she herself set last year.

At the Division II state championships, the Bay View 200-yard relay team comprised of Spremullo, Juliana Goncalves of Rehoboth, Olesya Tamburro of Cumberland and Melina Cabral of Seekonk won second place and broke the school record with their time of one minute, 52.72 seconds. Out of the 25 teams, the Bengals came in sixth.

Here are the awards taken home by the team this year:

All-State
1st Team All-State (200 I.M.) Gianna Spremullo (Cranston)
1st Team All-State (100 Backstroke) Gianna Spremullo (Cranston)
2nd Team All-State (200 Medley Relay): Gianna Spremullo (Cranston), Juliana Goncalves (Rehoboth), Olesya Tamburro (Cumberland), Melina Cabral (Seekonk)

All-Division, Division II Champions
1st Team All-Division II (200 Medley Relay): Gianna Spremullo (Cranston), Juliana Goncalves (Rehoboth), Olesya Tamburro (Cumberland), Melina Cabral (Seekonk)
1st Team All-Division II (200 I.M.) Gianna Spremullo (Cranston)
1st Team All-Division II (100 Backstroke) Gianna Spremullo (Cranston)
2nd Team All-Division II (100 Breaststroke) Juliana Goncalves (Rehoboth)
2nd Team All-Division II (400 Free Relay): Melina Cabral (Seekonk), Olesya Tamburro (Cumberland), Juliana Goncalves (Rehoboth), Gianna Spremullo (Cranston)