Swim Team Does Well at State Championship

The Swim Team went to the TAPPS Division 1 State Championship on Friday, February 9, in Mansfield.

SJ23 qualified four girls and ten boys in four relays and twenty individual events. The girls finished 11th and the boys finished 8th in a team race that saw only 7.5 points separating 4th-8th place in team standings. Canyon Neundorfer '20 won the Bronze for the 200 yard Freestyle. 
 
Coach Abbott had this to say: "Some very impressive swims and team support from our group at this meet. Sixteen of twenty individual swims dropped time, three of four relays dropped time, and the fourth relay was just .03 seconds off their Region time, so quite a successful outing for our SeaLions. Very proud of the way these swimmers pulled together and performed great."
 
Swimmer results and notes: 
 
Girls 400 free relay-5th (Kaylee Brosch-‘21, Addison Seeley-‘19, Alexis Truong-‘18, Emerson Rotta-‘19) dropped 5 seconds from Region; 
 
Boys 200 medley relay-9th (Korbin Podolak-‘19, Peyton Martin-‘18, Justice Ruiz-‘18, Adam Tate-‘20) dropped 3 seconds from Region;
 
Boys 200 free relay-7th (Paul Polzer-‘19, Tate-‘20, Chris Echevarria-‘20, Neundorfer-‘20);
 
Boys 400 free relay-6th (Polzer-‘19, Echevarria-‘20, Podolak-‘19, Neundorfer-‘20) dropped 6 seconds from Region. 
 
Rotta-‘19, 5th-50 free; 
 
Seeley-‘19, 9th-100 butterfly; 
 
Truong-‘18, 13th-200 individual medley, 13th-100 backstroke;
 
Jack DesJardins-‘20, 13th-100 backstroke;
 
Echevarria-‘20, 9th-50 free, 9th(tie)-100 free;
 
George Kopf-‘18, 16th-100 breaststroke;
 
Martin-‘18, 9th-100 breaststroke;
 
Neundorfer-‘20, 3rd 200 free, 4th 100 backstroke;
 
Podolak-‘19, 5th-200 free, 6th-100 backstroke;
 
Polzer-‘19, 11th-50 free, 14th-100 free;
 
Ruiz-‘18, 7th-200 individual medley, 8th-100 butterfly;
 
Eric Pink-‘20, 16th-500 free;
 
Tate-‘20, 8th-500 free.
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