Section IV preliminaries successful for Norwich, Oxford and Greene girls’ swimming
Four members of the Norwich Lady Purple Tornado swim team took down a 24-year old record in the first heat of the first race the Section IV Class B preliminary meet Wednesday evening. Abby Hansen, Kaitlyn Blaisure, Margie Winter and Anglea Carlson will now see their names on the school’s record board after beating the previously held time by more than a second. The four are seeded second for the championship final on Saturday. (Meagan Schulz Photo)
OWEGO – The Lady Purple Tornado, Lady Blackhawks and Lady Trojans will see several swimmers head to Watkins Glen High School, eyeing a top eight finish at the Section IV Championship meet Saturday as all had strong performances by the members of each team.
Norwich will see 14 swimmers, 12 swimming in at least two events, take on the rest of the field in either the A or B final Saturday while Greene will have five and Oxford send their lone member, Regan Finnegan, to the finals day.
The top eight seeds are scheduled to swim in the A final of each event while the next eight – nine through 16 – will race in the B final. All of the top 16 swimmers can earn points for their team to have a chance at claiming the team crown in their respective classes.
Finnegan will be seen in the A final in the 200 yard freestyle event, a race she participated in each Norwich meet as an exhibition swimmer. Her times throughout the season seeded her for the preliminary meet Wednesday in Watkins Glen and she registered a time of 2:20.9, setting up a seventh-seed in the finals race.
The Oxford Blackhawk will also swim in the B final for the 100 yard backstroke after a time of 1:16.09 placed her 11th overall out of the Class C/D field. Finnegan is seeded third for the B final race.
The Lady Purple Tornado’s Abby Hansen, Kaitlyn Blaisure, Margi Winter and Angela Carlson wasted no time at all in Wednesday’s preliminaries to knock off a 24-year-old school record.
In the first event of the night, the four Norwich swimmers took on the field in the 200 yard medley relay and raced to a time of 1:54.08 to erase the old record by more than a second. The group’s time in event has placed them as the second fastest team for the A final.
The same group qualified for the A final in the 400 yard freestyle relay, racing to a time of 3:58.4. Blaisure, Hansen, Winter and Carlson are also seeded second in the relay event.
Most of the girls on the Tornado swim team dropped several seconds off their seeding times – the best times recorded for each of the swimmers over the course of the season.
Senior Emerson Burton took five seconds off her time in the 200 yard freestyle while shedding five and half seconds from her 500 yard freestyle time. Burton will see the A final in the 200 yard and is seeded first in the B final.
Haley Shattuck will race alongside her teammate Burton in both the 200 yard freestyle A final and B final in the 500 yard freestyle.
The two will team up for the 200 yard freestyle relay with fellow Norwich swimmers Julia Llewellyn and Aurora Strauch in the A final as well.
Swimming in the B final of the 200 yard freestyle will be Tanner Olds who placed 13th overall in the preliminaries, setting her in the fifth seed for the race Saturday afternoon. The Norwich sophomore will be in the 100 yard backstroke B final after swimming a time of 1:15.54, placing her in the sixth spot in the B finals.
On top of the two relay events, Blasiure, Winter, Carlson and Hansen will be participating in the A final of two individual races.
Blaisure is the currently the top seed in the 50 yard freestyle event after her quick race posted a time of 25.47. Winter and Carlson will join her in the A final as the fourth and fifth seed as both swam a time below 26 seconds.
Along with the 50 free, Blaisure will take on the field in the 100 yard backstroke after a time of 1:07.03 placed her at the sixth seed.
Winter’s second individual event is the 100 yard butterfly as the two seed. In the preliminaries, Winter was edged out by Jennifer Scott of Owego by .01 of a second.
Carlson will be in the 100 yard freestyle A final after she swam a time of 57.60 in the prelims. She is currently the sixth seed for the event.
Hansen took on the 500 yard freestyle event, the longest distance in any event at the meet and finished with a time of 5:54.12. She is the fourth seed in the event for the A finals while teammate Riley Revoir took nearly 18 seconds of her fastest time set earlier this season to join the championship flight with a time of 6:02.99.
The Norwich junior, who returned to the sport this season, is also in the A final for the 200 yard individual medley relay, sitting as the fifth seed.
Revoir is also the second-seed for the A final in the 100 yard breaststroke with her time of 1:16.12. Swimming in the B final of the same event is Addyson Whaley, racing to a personal best time in the event.
Llewellyn, an eighth-grader on the Norwich team, will be racing in the 100 yard freestyle event, coming in the final spot for the B final with her time of 1:05.16.
In her second year on varsity, Strauch will appear in the B finals for both the 100 yard butterfly and the 200 individual medley.
“I couldn’t be prouder of how they all swam tonight,” said Gantt. “We had two goals going into the meet. One was to get that medley record off the board as we just missed it by less than half a second last season. The other goal was to get as many girls as possible swimming in finals and consolation finals on Saturday. The girls took the record down in the first heat of the first event and from there they just got better with every race.
“They knew they couldn’t hold back tonight and they showed up every event beginning to end. They certainly put the top three teams on notice for finals so we aren’t done yet. I look forward to Saturday.”
Greene will have Skylar Nowalk represent the Trojans in the A final for the Class C/D meet, held after the Class B meet Saturday. Nowalk picked up the last spot in the finals with her time of 28.88 seconds in the 50 yard freestyle.
She, along with Madison Pavlovich, Amy Bentley, Ella Prindle and Olivia Ketzak, have reached the finals meet in the B finals.
Pavlovich will be swimming as one of the top 16 in the 200 yard individual medley and the 100 yard butterfly. Prindle will be in the same race for the 100 yard butterfly while Bentley will swim along Pavlovich in the 200 yard individual medley.
Nowalk is scheduled to be in the 100 yard freestyle B final while Ketzak will be swimming in the 500 yard freestyle event. Bentley is also contesting for team points in the 100 yard breaststroke.
The Class B finals will be held in the Watkins Glen High School Pool starting 2 p.m. while the Class C/D starts at 6 p.m.
Norwich will see 14 swimmers, 12 swimming in at least two events, take on the rest of the field in either the A or B final Saturday while Greene will have five and Oxford send their lone member, Regan Finnegan, to the finals day.
The top eight seeds are scheduled to swim in the A final of each event while the next eight – nine through 16 – will race in the B final. All of the top 16 swimmers can earn points for their team to have a chance at claiming the team crown in their respective classes.
Finnegan will be seen in the A final in the 200 yard freestyle event, a race she participated in each Norwich meet as an exhibition swimmer. Her times throughout the season seeded her for the preliminary meet Wednesday in Watkins Glen and she registered a time of 2:20.9, setting up a seventh-seed in the finals race.
The Oxford Blackhawk will also swim in the B final for the 100 yard backstroke after a time of 1:16.09 placed her 11th overall out of the Class C/D field. Finnegan is seeded third for the B final race.
The Lady Purple Tornado’s Abby Hansen, Kaitlyn Blaisure, Margi Winter and Angela Carlson wasted no time at all in Wednesday’s preliminaries to knock off a 24-year-old school record.
In the first event of the night, the four Norwich swimmers took on the field in the 200 yard medley relay and raced to a time of 1:54.08 to erase the old record by more than a second. The group’s time in event has placed them as the second fastest team for the A final.
The same group qualified for the A final in the 400 yard freestyle relay, racing to a time of 3:58.4. Blaisure, Hansen, Winter and Carlson are also seeded second in the relay event.
Most of the girls on the Tornado swim team dropped several seconds off their seeding times – the best times recorded for each of the swimmers over the course of the season.
Senior Emerson Burton took five seconds off her time in the 200 yard freestyle while shedding five and half seconds from her 500 yard freestyle time. Burton will see the A final in the 200 yard and is seeded first in the B final.
Haley Shattuck will race alongside her teammate Burton in both the 200 yard freestyle A final and B final in the 500 yard freestyle.
The two will team up for the 200 yard freestyle relay with fellow Norwich swimmers Julia Llewellyn and Aurora Strauch in the A final as well.
Swimming in the B final of the 200 yard freestyle will be Tanner Olds who placed 13th overall in the preliminaries, setting her in the fifth seed for the race Saturday afternoon. The Norwich sophomore will be in the 100 yard backstroke B final after swimming a time of 1:15.54, placing her in the sixth spot in the B finals.
On top of the two relay events, Blasiure, Winter, Carlson and Hansen will be participating in the A final of two individual races.
Blaisure is the currently the top seed in the 50 yard freestyle event after her quick race posted a time of 25.47. Winter and Carlson will join her in the A final as the fourth and fifth seed as both swam a time below 26 seconds.
Along with the 50 free, Blaisure will take on the field in the 100 yard backstroke after a time of 1:07.03 placed her at the sixth seed.
Winter’s second individual event is the 100 yard butterfly as the two seed. In the preliminaries, Winter was edged out by Jennifer Scott of Owego by .01 of a second.
Carlson will be in the 100 yard freestyle A final after she swam a time of 57.60 in the prelims. She is currently the sixth seed for the event.
Hansen took on the 500 yard freestyle event, the longest distance in any event at the meet and finished with a time of 5:54.12. She is the fourth seed in the event for the A finals while teammate Riley Revoir took nearly 18 seconds of her fastest time set earlier this season to join the championship flight with a time of 6:02.99.
The Norwich junior, who returned to the sport this season, is also in the A final for the 200 yard individual medley relay, sitting as the fifth seed.
Revoir is also the second-seed for the A final in the 100 yard breaststroke with her time of 1:16.12. Swimming in the B final of the same event is Addyson Whaley, racing to a personal best time in the event.
Llewellyn, an eighth-grader on the Norwich team, will be racing in the 100 yard freestyle event, coming in the final spot for the B final with her time of 1:05.16.
In her second year on varsity, Strauch will appear in the B finals for both the 100 yard butterfly and the 200 individual medley.
“I couldn’t be prouder of how they all swam tonight,” said Gantt. “We had two goals going into the meet. One was to get that medley record off the board as we just missed it by less than half a second last season. The other goal was to get as many girls as possible swimming in finals and consolation finals on Saturday. The girls took the record down in the first heat of the first event and from there they just got better with every race.
“They knew they couldn’t hold back tonight and they showed up every event beginning to end. They certainly put the top three teams on notice for finals so we aren’t done yet. I look forward to Saturday.”
Greene will have Skylar Nowalk represent the Trojans in the A final for the Class C/D meet, held after the Class B meet Saturday. Nowalk picked up the last spot in the finals with her time of 28.88 seconds in the 50 yard freestyle.
She, along with Madison Pavlovich, Amy Bentley, Ella Prindle and Olivia Ketzak, have reached the finals meet in the B finals.
Pavlovich will be swimming as one of the top 16 in the 200 yard individual medley and the 100 yard butterfly. Prindle will be in the same race for the 100 yard butterfly while Bentley will swim along Pavlovich in the 200 yard individual medley.
Nowalk is scheduled to be in the 100 yard freestyle B final while Ketzak will be swimming in the 500 yard freestyle event. Bentley is also contesting for team points in the 100 yard breaststroke.
The Class B finals will be held in the Watkins Glen High School Pool starting 2 p.m. while the Class C/D starts at 6 p.m.
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