Coupeville Sports

Lily Doyle (front) and some of her Vassar teammates.

Lily Doyle is swimming with the big girls.

The Coupeville High School grad, now a junior at Vassar College, swam in four events at the Liberty League Swim & Dive Championships in Rochester, New York Friday and Saturday. The event, where Vassar finished sixth out of eight schools, brings an end to the 2012 portion of the Brewers’ swim schedule.

Doyle and her teammates won’t return to the water for a competition again until the middle of January.

Swimming over the weekend, Doyle finished 27th in the 200 backstroke (2 minutes, 28.92 seconds), 29th in the 100 back (1:08.78), 36th in the 200 IM (2:37.40) and 50th in the 50 free (28.87).

She is the daughter of Coupeville couple Richard Doyle and Barbara Ballard, who is better known to CHS students as the Gatekeeper to All Things College Related.

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Lily Doyle (right), back in her high school days, when she aced classes at Coupeville and kicked butt in the water for Oak Harbor.

Lily Doyle is getting noticed by her coach.

The Coupeville High School grad, now a junior at Vassar College, was singled out for praise by the big boss, Lisl Prater-Lee, on the college’s athletic web site, after Doyle busted out a top personal performance Nov. 17 in the 200 backstroke in a meet against SUNY New Paltz. Her time of two minutes, 33.91 seconds was her best swim of the year.

“Lilian dropped two seconds off her season-best, which is a positive performance in a tough meet,” Prater-Lee was quoted.

That followed on the heels of a strong all-around afternoon in a meet against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (try saying that five times fast) Nov. 10.

In that meet, Doyle swam in four events, placing fourth in the 100 back (1:11.60), fifth in the 200 back (2:35.81) and sixth in the 500 free (6:25.70). She also swam a leg on a 400 free relay team that claimed fourth in 4:09.79.

Doyle and her Brewer teammates are now prepping for the Liberty League Championships Nov. 30-Dec. 1.

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Lily Doyle

Vassar

Super-smart and a fairly talented swimmer, Lily Doyle is the complete college athlete package.

The Coupeville High School grad, now a junior at Vassar College, recently kicked off her third season with the Brewers by swimming in three meets clad in the burgundy and gray of her soon-to-be alma mater.

Vassar is 2-1 on the young season, having split with Clarkson (a 229-59 win) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (a narrow 161-138 loss) Oct. 27, followed by a convincing 175-125 thumping of Skidmore College Nov. 3.

Doyle’s best event came in the 200 yard backstroke against Skidmore, when she finished fifth with a personal season-best of two minutes, 34.91 seconds. She added a sixth in the 100 back (1:14.18).

In the earlier three-team meet, she claimed sixth in both of her events (1:12.61 in the 100 and 2:36.26 in the 200), while also swimming a leg on a 400 free relay team.

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