On Saturday afternoon the Boiling Springs swim team went up to Fort Mill to compete in the Region III-5A championships and came home with three region champions and multiple podium finishes.
"I couldn't be any more proud of how these kids came out and raced today," said Bulldogs head coach Lanie Peden. "They dug deep and gave excellent effort. We had some of the best individual races we have seen in a long time and numerous personal bests." The Bulldogs first region championship came from their boys 200y medley relay team (Will Humphreys, Ashton Threadgill, Samuel Jouault, and Garrett Watson) who won in a time of 1:43.31 and over a second ahead of the second place team. In the 100y butterfly events the Bulldogs had won the region championship in both events as Katelyn Mazurowski won the girls event in a time of 1:01.13 and Will Humphreys won in the boys event with a time of 54.78. Mazurowki and Humphreys also both came away with second place podium finishes in the 100y backstroke events as Mazurowki finished just four tenths of a second behind first place and Humphreys finished just under a second behind the region champion in his event. Garrett Watson came away with a second place finish in the boys 500y freestyle event while Ashton Threadgill came away with a second place podium finish in the boys 100y breaststroke event for the Bulldogs. Threadgill also picked up a second place finish in the 200y individual medley event. The Bulldogs girls 200y medley relay team (Molly Verdell, Lauren Agnew, Katelyn Mazurowki, and Makenzy Carothers) also picked up a third place podium finish in the region championships meet on Saturday. Also the boys and girls freestyle relay teams both came away with third place podium finishes on Saturday as both teams were within just a few seconds of the region championship. Coach Peden said that she was happy with her team's performance but that a lack of numbers hurt them from winning more events which they will work on this offseason. "The way the region is set up with scoring it's hard for a team of our size to put up the points of the board against teams our size," said Peden. "That is one of the biggest things we need to work on this offseason. Swimming is such an incredible sport and we just need to find more swimmers at Bulldog nation." The Bulldogs will find out on Monday who be participating at the state championships that will be held at the North Charleston Aquatic Center. The girls that make it will compete on Friday while the boys will compete on the following Monday. Comments are closed.
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