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Boys’ Swim Team Wins Regionals; Entire team has 72% Improvement in Best Swim Times
After winning the Eastern Region Division II Swim Meet last year, and moving up to Division I this year, the boys’ swim team repeated as Region Champions, beating last year’s champion St. Thomas 123-112.
Tomball Concordia Lutheran was third with 108. The girls finished 6th with excellent performances from the entire team. The girls had 68% lifetime best swims and the boys had 76%, for a combined team improvement of 72%.
SJ23 Swimmers of the Meet were junior Lexi Truong and Ben Rehfeld.
Top-three finishers in each event are automatic State Qualifiers and include Lexi Truong, Adley Marsh, Addy Seeley, and Emmi Rotta in the 200-yd medley relay; Korbin Podolak, Peyton Martin, Ben Rehfeld, and David Lloyd in the 200-yd medley relay; Paul Polzer, Canyon Neundorfer, Mark Lloyd, and Ben Rehfeld in the 200-yd freestyle relay; Paul Polzer, Canyon Neundorfer, David Lloyd, and Korbin Podolak in the 400-yd freestyle relay; Ben Rehfeld in the 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly; David Lloyd in the 50 and 100 freestyle; Canyon Neundorfer and Adam Tate in the 500 freestyle; and Korbin Podolak in the 100 backstroke.
Additional qualifiers will be named by TAPPS on January 30 after the Central and Northern Regional Championships fill out the automatic qualifiers from the top three finishers at each Region Meet, and the next fastest seven Region times from across the state will be added to fill the 16 remaining State Meet slots.
Congratulations to the swim team for another outstanding performance representing SJ23!
(Pictured are team captains Ben Rehfeld and David Lloyd holding the 2017 TAPPS Eastern Regional Championship plaque along with the entire boys’ swim team)
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