SM East grad showing off swimming skills at UConn

Marston Fries

The SM East Athletics Department had a big weekend here in northeast Kansas with impressive showings from the boys basketball team, wrestling team and boys swim and dive team — but Lancer athletes were making waves across the country as well.

Mission Hill native Marston Fries, a 2012 SM East graduate in her first year swimming at the University of Connecticut, won the 200-yard individual medley at the UConn Open Saturday. Fries was a two-time individual state champion in the 100 and 200 freestyle in high school, and is the SM East record holder in those events.

Fries was a captain on the Kansas City Blazers swim team.