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Sequoyah girls lead county with 13th-place finish at state
Adam
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Feb 4, 2017
ATLANTA — Four swimmers and one a championship diver was all it took for the Sequoyah girls to finish 13th overall in the Class AAAAAA and AAAAAAA meet Saturday at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center.
The Woodstock and Creekview girls placed in 18th and 19th, respectively, while Etowah was 23rd.
In the boys standings, Woodstock was 17th, by a 3.5-point margin over archrival Etowah.
Walton dominated the girls meet with 366 points, beating Lambert by 123 points in the most lopsided state meet since the Marist girls won the Class A-AAAA championship by a 130-point margin in 2009.
Brookwood won the boys championship with 233.5 points, winning a closer battle with Gwinnett County rival Mill Creek (209).
For the Sequoyah girls, diver Rachel Renner set the stage Thursday by claiming the diving championship with a score of 527.45 points, beating Mill Creek’s Ambria D’Alonzo by nearly 15 points.
In Saturday’s swimming finals, Sequoyah returned its 200- and 400-yard freestyle relays in the “B” heat with Emma Gelatt, Ansley Davis, Jordan Weems and Kristina Friedrichs leading the way. Friedrichs also came back in the 50 and 100 freestyles, and Jordan Weems returned in the 100 backstroke.
Friedrichs made the top heat in the 50 freestyle and finished second with a time of 24.20 seconds. She also finished 13th in the 100 freestyle (52.63). Weems won the “B” heat of the 100 backstroke in 58.23, recording the sixth-best time overall.
“It was amazing to move up into 6A and 7A and finish 13th with only a handful of girls,” Sequoyah coach Miriam Greene said. “We had amazing swims.”
The Creekview girls had amazing swims as well.
Michelle McCord was the No. 2 seed in the 200 individual medley and had a small lead over Brookwood’s Devan Sweeney, the eventual winner, going into the final freestyle leg, the weakest portion of McCord’s medley.
Although McCord fell back to third with a time of 2:02.43, it was still a personal best.
“I’ve been working hard to get faster in the freestyle,” McCord said. “I wanted to keep up with Devan going into the last leg and just give it my all and ended up with my best time.”
McCord also finished sixth in the 100 breaststroke (1:03.62). Teammate Emily Snyder was third in 1:02.78.
The Woodstock girls edged Creekview in points by returning all three of its relays. The Lady Wolverines finished 12th in the 200 freestyle (1:40.68), 14th in the 200 medley 1:50.61) and 17th in the 400 freestyle (3:41.82).
Woodstock also got help from Jaclyn Csubak, who was 12th in the 100 breaststroke (1:06.01) and Elizabeth Bryne, who was 13th in the 500 freestyle (5:03.82) and 15th in the 200 freestyle (1:52.55).
For Etowah, Caitlin Pallas was 10th in the 100 backstroke (59.84) and 17th in the 100 butterfly (58.80), and Lilly Zamorano was 16th in the 200 freestyle (1:52.85) and 17th in the 500 freestyle (5:08.84). Both swimmers were on the 200 medley that finished 15th (1:50.61) and the 400 freestyle relay that finished 19th (3:43.51).
The Woodstock boys won the “B” heat of the 200 medley relay behind Mason Sommer, Michael McDowell, Joshua Thrift and Chase Moore (1:38.88). Woodstock was also 15th in the 400 freestyle relay (3:16.41).
McDowell tied Hillgrove’s Tory Bartlett for fourth in the 100 breaststroke (57.60) and was 10th in the 200 IM (1:56.42). Moore was eighth in the 200 freestyle (1:43.63) and Thrift was 18th in both the 100 butterfly (52.79) and 100 freestyle (48.47).
Etowah’s Jonathan Young was ninth in the 100 butterfly (51.44), Tegan Brown took 13th in the 100 backstroke (52.14) and 18th in the 200 IM (1:57.83) and Joey Young was 16th in the backstroke (52.91).
The Eagles also had success in the relays, with its 200 medley 10th in 1:39.80 and its 400 freestyle 12th in 3:15.42.
River Ridge’s Brad Burke was 15th in the 50 freestyle (21.78) and 16th in the 100 freestyle (52.53). He was also on the 200 freestyle that finished 14th (1:29.30) and the medley relay that finished 15th (1:40.36).
The Creekview boys got points with Garrett Dempsey finishing 19th in 200 freestyle (2:02.56) and 20th in the 100 butterfly (54.88).
