Warsaw Swimmers Advance to Indy
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Staff Report-
Warsaw freshman Delaney Wihebrink and junior Brenna Morgan were double winners, sophomore Laurel Moeller won a championship and the Lady Tigers advanced seven swimmers to the state meet at the Warsaw Swimming Sectional Saturday.
Wihebrink on the 200 IM and the 100 backstroke, and Morgan was the champion in the 50 and 100 freestyle races, setting a pair of sectional records in the process. Moeller won the 200 freestyle, and the 200 medley relay team of Morgan, Wihebrink, Lauren Kuhl and Olivia Herman won as well. Warsaw finished second in the team standing behind Culver Academies.
The state preliminaries will be Friday evening, and the finals Saturday afternoon at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis.
Manchester had two individual swimmers qualify for the sectional final. Allison Smith was eighth in the 50 freestyle and Alexis Vernon was sixth in the 100 breaststroke. The Lady Squire 200 medley relay team finished eighth, as did the 200 freestyle relay.
Valley’s Caitlyn Bailey was sixth in the diving, Katie Gunter was sixth in the 100 butterfly and Lea Stouder was eighth in the 100 breaststroke.
WARSAW GIRLS SWIMMING
SECTIONAL RESULTS
Team standings – 1. Culver Academies 406, 2. Warsaw 367, 3. Rochester 360, 4. Cass 236, 5. Columbia City 182, 6. Logansport 143, 7. Plymouth 110, 8. Pioneer 107, 9. Manchester 105.5, 10. Huntington North 103.5, 11. Wabash 72, 12. Tippecanoe Valley 42
Individual Results
(Top 3 Plus Locals)
200 medley relay – 1. Warsaw (Lauren Kuhl, Delaney Wihebrink, Brenna Morgan, Olivia Herman) 1:51.35; 2. Rochester 1:56.62, 3. Culver Academies 1:59.43, 8. Manchester (Allison Smith, Alexis Vernon, Cora Barnett, Skye Fierstos) 2:12.37; 200 freestyle – 1. Laurel Moeller (War) 2:05.08, 2. Marisol Karmel (Cass) 2:06.36, 3. Kuhl (War) 2:06.97, 10. Allison Thompson (War) 2:18.00; 200 IM – 1. Wihebrink (War) 2:13.99, 2. Ceclia Miller (CA) 2:18.04, 3. Abigail McCarter 2:19.69, 9. Savannah Taylor (War) 2:30.32, 13. Madelyn Ray (War) 2:40.93, 15. Vernon (Man) 2:43.35; 50 freestyle – 1. Morgan (War) 23.55, 2. Madelyn Sailors (R) 24.24, 3. Herman (War) 25.70, 8. Allison Smith (Man) 28.37, 11. Fierstos (Man) 28.93, 13. Kate Gunter (TV) 29.62, 16. Lea Stouder (TV) 30.42; Diving – Abigail Zartman (L) 400.65, 2. Georgia Cleveland (CA) 379.45, 3. Morgan Taylor (R) 372.80, 6. Caitlyn Bailey (TV) 281.05, 8. Stephany Bailey (261.25, 14. Shelby Paseka (War) 219.50; 100 butterfly – 1. Ella Spratt-Szarzynski (CA) 1:07.09, 2. Karmel (Cass) 1:07.46, 3. Emma Sexton (CA) 1:08.72, 6. Gunter (TV) 1:10.95, 7. Liz Slough (War) 1:11.56, 8. Ray (War) 1:13.36, 11. Thompson 1:13.54, 15. Lillian Myers (Man) 1:27.31; 100 freestyle – 1. Morgan (War) 50.80, 2. Sailors (R) 54.25, 3. Ceclia Miller (CA) 54.38, 5. Moeller (War) 58.14, 6. Herman (War) 58.23; 500 freestyle – 1. Karmel (Cass) 5:40.55, 2. Kuhl (War) 5:40.87, 3. Anne-Marie Wright (CA) 5:52.83, 12. Audrey Curson (War) 6:17.40; 200 freestyle relay – 1. Warsaw (Herman, Moeller, Kuhl, Morgan) 1:42.12, 2. Cass 1:49.63, 3. Culver Academies 1:51.36, 8. Manchester (Fierstos, Corrie Osborne, Madyson Ulrey, A. Smith) 1:57.85; 100 backstroke – 1. Wihebrink (War) 59.95, 2. Erika Mullins (L) 1:04.13, 3. Avery Bolden (CA) 1:06.77, 8. Curson (War) 1:13.77, 14. A. Smith (Man) 1:19.28; 100 breaststroke – 1. Abigail McCarter (R) 1:08.63, 2. Mykaela Crowell (CC) 1:12.83, 3. Janelle Li (CA) 1:16.64, 6. (tie) Vernon (Man) and Macy Lange (HN) 1:20.51, 8. Stouder (TV) 1:24.13, 10. Franny Schannep (Man) 1:24.44; 400 freestyle relay – 1. Rochester (Feldman, Schaller, McCarter, Sailors) 3:48.75, 2. Culver Academies 3:53.61, 3. Warsaw (Wihebrink, Thompson, Ray, Moeller) 3:59.89, 9. Manchester (Ulrey, Osborne, Barnett, Vernon) 4:34.91.
