The swim teams attended both the women's and men's invitational at the Blatt Natatorium in Columbia. This is the same facility that hosts our AAA State Swim meet, so we take advantage of this fast pool as an opportunity to cut time and familiarize ourselves with the high-level competition that shows up. And boy did our swimmers show up too!
The women's division ran from 9:30 AM Warmups to 1:45 PM's final event. There was a total of 27 teams and 268 female swimmers that competed in this session. Results were as follows:
Overall placement 11th - Tied with Blythewood High School
Event 1 - 200 Medley Relay - 40 teams entered
8th place - Sami Curry, Jenna Burge, Kindel Jaeger, and Kaley Burge - They dropped 4.56 seconds besting their best HS time. They are very close to an automatic time in this event, but still have a Consideration time.
Event 3 - 200 Freestyle - 62 swimmers entered
9th Place - Kaley Burge swimming this event for her best time this season with an AUTOMATIC State Qualifying time!
32nd Place - Sami Curry - dropping 6.42 seconds one second to go for a state cut!
51st - Ellis Kemper with a 2.26 second drop
Event 5 - 200 IM - 43 swimmers entered
15th - Jenna Burge - AUTOMATIC State qualifying time
16th - Kindel Jaeger with a HUGE drop of 7.15 seconds - BIGGEST drop of the day with a State Consideration time
Event 7 - 50 Freestyle - 110 swimmers entered
11th Place - Kaley Burge with a 0.21 drop besting her AUTOMATIC Qualifying time.
48th - Cassidy Price
63rd - Kaylen Wofford
Event 9 - 100 Butterfly - 35 swimmers entered
11th place - Kindel Jaeger with her best time this season and State Consideration time
29th - Piper Haskett - with a 4.82 second time drop
Event 11 - 100 Freestyle - 104 swimmers entered
48th Place - Piper Haskett with a 3.24 second drop (and yes, she was in back to back events dropping time!!)
64th Place - Ellis Kemper with a 1.85 second drop
Event 13 - 500 Freestyle - 31 swimmers entered
23rd Place - Cassidy Price swimming her State Consideration time
Event 15 - 200 Freestyle Relay - 39 teams entered
12th Place - dropping 1.51 seconds edging closer to automatic, but still in Consideration Time - Jenna Burge, Piper Haskett, Kindel Jaeger, Kayley Burge
23rd Place - edging closer to a state cut time - Cassidy Price, Ellis Kemper, Kaylen Wofford, Sami Curry
Event 17 - 100 Backstroke - 59 swimmers entered
16th Place - Sami Curry with a 2 second drop for her bets Consideration Time this season
Event 19 - 100 Breast stroke - 66 swimmers entered
12th Place - Jenna Burge with a 0.86 second cut and an AUTOMATIC time
60th Place - Kaylen Wofford
Event 21 - 400 Freestyle Relay - 30 teams entered
26th place - Piper Haskett, Ellis Kemper, Kaylen Wofford, Cassidy Price
The men's division ran from 2:30 warmups to 5:30 PM end. There were 246 competitors from 27 teams. The bulldogs placed 13th tied with Dutch Fork High School. The results were as follows:
Event 2 - 200 Medley Relay - 37 teams entered
16th Place - Braedon Connelly, Rhett Smith, Grant Smith, Tristan Chaplin with a Consideration Time
Event 4 - 200 Freestyle - 45 swimmers entered
2nd Place - Grant Smith with a 3.02 second time drop and an AUTOMATIC state cut time
41st - Tristan Chaplin
Event 8 - 50 Freestyle - 113 swimmers entered
85th - Tristan Chaplin
92nd - Drew Washabau with a 0.80 second drop
Event 10 - 100 Butterfly - 40 swimmers entered
9th Place - Grant Smith swimming an AUTOMATIC State time
15th Place - Braedon Connelly with a 1.84 second time drop and state Consideration Time about 2 seconds from auto
Event 12 - 100 Freestyle - 103 swimmers entered
85th place - Drew Washabau with a 4.19 second drop for his best time!!
Event 14 - 500 - 23 Swimmers entered
5th Place - Rhett Smith with a State Consideration time
Event 16 - 200 Freestyle Relay - 36 teams entered
20th Place - Rhett Smith, Tristan Chaplin, Braedon Connelly, Grant Smith swimming a State Consideration Time
Event 18 - 100 Backstroke - 51 Swimmers entered
33rd Place - Braedon Connelly
Event 20 - 100 Breast stroke - 64 swimmers entered
22nd Place - Rhett Smith swimming a State Consideration time
Coach Kelly and I are so proud of these swimmers for working hard and performing their best yesterday! Thank you to everyone in attendance for each session!