Bradley-Bourbonnais girls swimming riding high into sectionals following 1st SWSC title

After finishing as a sectional runner-up last season, the best finish in program history, the Bradley-Bourbonnais girls swimming team had high hopes for a returning group that lost just two seniors. With this season’s IHSA Lockport Sectional on Saturday, the Boilermakers are primed for the postseason after another program milestone. They won their first SouthWest Suburban Conference title on Oct. 24, moving up from fourth place a season ago. It was the program’s first conference title since 2002. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Mia Ecker, Abby Bonilla, Isabelle Trudeau and Aly Swafford, and the 400 freestyle relay of Bonilla, Madeline Folk, Trudeau and Swafford were the first two Boilermakers relay teams to win conference titles.With her win in the 200 individual medley, Folk also became the first Boilermaker to win an individual event at conference since 2018. “Honestly, I couldn’t believe it when I saw the scoreboard after it happened, but I just knew going into that race that I