The swim team kicked off the Thanksgiving Break Tuesday night with their first coed meet of the season at McAnally Center, competing well with the Greencastle Tigersharks. The girls’ team was short in both health and numbers on the night and lost 57-123. The guys’ team walked away from their first meet of the season with 93-77 victory.
First place finishes for the night included two relays: the boys’ medley relay team of Grant Cordell, Evan Steffy, Kyle Cunningham and Zion Harris and the same team of four in the 400 relay to close out the meet. Individual first place finishers were as follows:
Evan Steffy, 200 & 100 freestyle
Grant Cordell, 200IM & 100 backstroke
Lee Haywood, diving
Kyle Cunningham, 100 fly
Zion Harris, 500 freestyle
Abby Teipen, 100 breaststroke
Several swimmers lowered their previous lifetime best swims:
Brodie Carr: 200 freestyle
Grant Cordell: 200IM
Craig Robinson: 200IM
Zion Harris: 50 freestyle, 500 freestyle
Daniel Johnson: 50 freestyle
Ally Menke: 100 fly
Aubrey Bennett: 100 freestyle
Caitlyn Phillips: 50 freestyle (relay lead off), 100 breaststroke
Dunkin York: 50 freestyle, 100 breaststroke
The swimmers and divers are back in the water at home on Tuesday at 5:30, competing with Tri-West, Ritter and Covenant Christian.