The 757swim guys’ relays broke each group relay report. They paced their team to the state title within the medium group department at Virginia Swimming’s 2019 Short Course Senior Championships, held on 28-March 3 at the Jeff Rouse Swim Center in Stafford.
Six swimmers participated on the 757swim guys’ relays — Flynn Crisci, Noah Fields, Sam Long, Austin Smith, Ethan Roehrle, and Jacob Sprigg — and helped the crew win two gold medals, silvers, and one bronze. Some of the region’s top swimmers contributed to the previous information, including Colin Wright, a William and Mary junior and current Colonial Athletic Association file-holder inside the one hundred freestyle, and Evan Lynch, a freshman swimmer at Towson University.
757swim head teacher Morgan Cordle stated of her swimmers, “These guys like to compete and are fired up by using a great assignment. They intended to rewrite our men’s report e-book, and they did not simply meet that goal; they shattered every relay file. This is an extraordinary accomplishment, and we’re extraordinarily proud of how they came together to achieve it.”
Other 757 swim participants contributed to the general attempt. Long gained the state championship in the 16-17 200-yard individual medley, achieved a Summer Junior Nationals qualifying time inside the one hundred butterflies, and set 3 data for the team in the sixteen-17-12 months-vintage a hundred- and two hundred-backyard butterflies (forty eight.86 and 1:forty eight.15) and 200 IM (1:50.Seventy three). Crisci, dedicated to W&M, set crew records and carried out the Summer Junior Nationals reduction inside the hundred breaststrokes (fifty-five. Fifty-three) and the Winter Junior Nationals cut inside the 200 breaststrokes (2:03.09). Noah Fields broke his records in the 400 IM (3: fifty-nine .66) and 100 backstrokes (50.10), earning additional Winter Junior cuts.
Three additional pieces of information have been damaged: using Austin Smith in the 100 freestyle (forty-five . Seventy-two), Aiden Crisci inside the 14-15-year-old 1,650 freestyle (sixteen:06.60), and Jacob Sprigg inside the 14-15 1,000 freestyle (nine:38.Seventy six).
757swim, not simplest, won the medium team division championship. It positioned second among all men’s teams, trailing simplest NOVA, a large Richmond-based organization. NOVA despatched 64 guys to the meet, compared to the best nine from the Williamsburg-based total squad.
The women of 757swim earned the state championship amongst medium-sized groups and completed fourth overall.
Colby Hurt, who has devoted to swimming for Auburn University, led the way for 757swim’s girls with team-record swims in the sixteen-17 two hundred freestyle (1: forty-nine .47) and 200 breaststrokes (2:15.30). Jenna Thompson, who will swim at Virginia Tech within the fall, set a group record within the 100 breaststrokes (1:01.19), placing second. Kylie Johnson and Sofia Long also contributed to men’s point overall Conan or woman occasions.
The girls’ relays earned all top-six finishes. Relay swimmers included Thompson, Hurt, Long, Johnson, and Kaitlyn Sullivan.
The final meet of the 2018-19 short-course seasons can be the Eastern Zone Speedo Sectionals in Christiansburg from Thursday through Sunday. Seventeen 757 swim athletes have been certified to compete at that meet.
Running
Roger Hopper and Sorenna Jean received the guys’ and ladies’ races at closing weekend’s Lafayette High’s RamFam Run/Walk, held on the Eastern State Hospital Avenue route.
The alternate venue might have affected the race’s quantity of entries, as the handiest 67 runners finished the 3.11-mile path. But Hopper’s swift triumphing time of 16:02 was almost 2 ½ minutes ahead of runner-up Logan St. John’s.
Jean, 16, received the women’s department in 20:36, beforehand of another teenager, 17-12 months-vintage Allison Crookston of Williamsburg, who turned into 2d in 21:forty seven.
Greg Lynn (18:forty four) and Karen Grabowski (22:27) placed third in their classifications, with Lynn winning the masters division.
Isaac Lamprecht, 12, gained the men’s 14-and-under department with an outstanding time of 19:18.
