Page 14 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, January 24, 2025 Malden High Swim Team host Senior Night Honors Gordon Zeng By Steve Freker T he Malden High School Swim Team honored the seniors in their final home meet of the year on Thursday, January 16 against Lynn Classical. The honor ceremony was held at the Barry Fitzpatrick Pool at Malden High School. Honored at the ceremony – hosted by Head Coach Jess Bisson and Assistant Head Coach Julie Grillon – were Sarahy Escobar Ayala, Marie Cheng, Dante Federico, James Lin, Hailey Tran, Gordon Zeng, James Zhou and managJames Lin Hailey Tran er Lanyu Liang. Before the Malden seniors were announced, the team presented flowers to the senior members of the Lynn Classical team in a fine showing of goodwill. To top off the day, the team was able to pull out a big win over the visiting Lynn Classical and another win this week at Somerville High to improve to 6-1 overall (6-1 GBL) and stay in the hunt for a sixth consecutive Greater Boston League Championship. It was a touching ceremoJames Zhou Sarahy Escobar Ayala Lanyu Liang Dante Federico ny as Coach Bisson introduced each senior team member with an individual greeting and recap of their careers with Malden High Swim. *** Malden High Swim concludes The senior members honored on Senior Night included, from left, James Zhou, Sarahy Escobar Ayala, James Lin, captains Hailey Tran and Gordon Zeng, Dante Federico and manager Lanyu Liang. Not shown: senior Marie Cheng. (Courtesy Photo/Malden Athletics) its regular season with a road trip to take on Revere at the Garfield School on Tuesday, January 28 at 4:30 p.m. A win next Tuesday would give Malden at least a co-championship of the GBL, keeping its title streak alive for a sixth consecutive season, 12 of the last 14 years. Malden High Gymnastics Team has lots of new faces this season and is eager to learn By Steve Freker T here are plenty of new faces this year, but that is just fine with Malden High Gymnastics Head Coach Katie Bowdridge. The longtime Tornado gymnastics mentor reports that the majority of the team members are not only new to the team, but are also new to the competitive sport. “Many of the kids have never done gymnastics prior to high school and only two have competed outside of high school,” Coach Bowdridge said. “Usually we start our season with participants who have more experience, but that is fine, because they have really worked hard and are learning quickly.” Malden has participated in two meets so far this year and had two close calls, falling by just two points in its most recent meet, at Medford High, 105.5 to 103.5, last week. Malden opened the season with another close loss on the road at Wakefield. “Despite us being a fairly new group of girls, they do work very hard and the improvement from the first week until now has been incredible,” the Malden coach said. “We are so lucky to have such an amazing group of kids.” “They come to practice excited to learn new skills and work The Malden High School Varsity Girls Gymnastics Team is working hard, and the competition season has begun for the Tornados in 2025. (Courtesy Photo/Malden HS Gymnastics) hard to be able to use their new skills,” Coach Bowdridge added. Coach Michael Nicholson, the head coach’s son, who is a physical education teacher at the Beebe K-8 School, is a longtime assistant with the gymnastics program. Malden was back in action with another meet at Medford High yesterday, Thursday, January 23 at Medford High and has a January 30 meet at Medford and a February 7 meet at Melrose remaining on the schedule.
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