Earlier in the day on Jan. 27, Gabrielle Cabaron was battling a bit of a fever. But she wasn’t about to go to the nurse’s office, or else she would have been sent home and wouldn’t have been permitted to swim that evening.

“This was an important meet and my team needed me,” the senior said after the Southern Regional girls swim team smashed Toms River South, 106-64, at the St. Francis Aquatic Center. “Thankfully, the fever broke, so I was good enough to swim anyway.