Laura Morley, a Bahamian swimmer in her junior year at the Peddie School, in Hightstown, New Jersey, competed last weekend at the 114th Annual Eastern Interscholastic Swimming Championships, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Both the Peddie School girls and boys teams finished second against 46 other schools. Morley was one of the school's high point scorers at the meet, for the girls, finishing second in the 100 yards breaststroke in a personal best time of 1:04.42, which surpasses the All-American Consideration time standard.
Morley added a fifth-place finish in the 200 yards Individual Medley (IM) in another personal best time of 2:06.95. She also swam in the 400 yards freestyle relay and finished second, and the 200 yards medley relay, in which she finished fourth. Both relays surpassed the Automatic All-American time standards.
Peddie School's swim coach, Greg Wriede, said that "she did a great job this past season" and he "hopes she builds on it at CARIFTA."
Morley is now back to training in preparation for the 2014 CARIFTA Swimming Championships, which are scheduled for Savaneta, Aruba from April 22-25. This year, CARIFTA Swimming is FINA sanctioned, and Morley's goals are "to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games, and also the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Championships later in 2014."
This is Morley's final CARIFTA Swimming Championships. She is a member of the Swift Swimming Club, the winning team at the 2013 Bahamas National Swimming Championships.

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