As the swimming season starts to head towards region and state meets over the next few weeks, the Boiling Springs swim team used Tuesday night to end their regular season by honoring their two seniors with a 220-100 overall victory over Oakbrook Prep at the Middle Tyger River YMCA.
"It was an excellent senior night and you couldn't ask for much more on a night like that," said Bulldogs head coach Lanie Peden. "Both of our seniors have been a part of the team for a long time and finished in an excellent way. We also got to finish against Oakbrook, who we practice against regularly, so it was only fitting to have their final regular season meet against those guys." On Tuesday night the Bulldogs honored seniors Will Humphrey and Cameron Duggins, who Peden says have both been incredible leaders in the program. "They are both outstanding leaders," said Peden. "Everybody loves Cameron because he brings a lot of humor and life to the team and if anyone is down he's the one to lift them up. I can't say enough about Will as his talent is just outstanding and he'll be swimming in college, which is a big deal because it has been a little while since we've had a swimmer sign to swim in college. He is a team leader as he encourages all of our other swimmers from the youngest kids to the most experienced ones." In the meet the Bulldogs came away with victories in nineteen of the twenty-two events held between the two schools on Tuesday evening. Will Humphreys came away with four victories on Tuesday night in his final home meet with victories in the 200y medley relay (along with Garrett Watson, Ashton Threadgill, and Miles Humphreys), the 200y individual medley, the 100y backstroke, and the 400y freestyle relay. Cameron Duggins finished his final home meet with a third place finish in the 100y butterfly event and a second place in the 100y backstroke, only finishing behind fellow senior Humphreys. With the victory on Tuesday night the Bulldogs also finished the regular season on a high note as they head towards the region and state meets, which Peden says she's glad her team was able to finish on a high note before getting into an important next few weeks. "It's important to end tonight we did going into the region meet next Saturday," said Peden. "It's good to end on a positive note as we've been working on a lot of technical things that could save seconds which could send or not send a kid to the state meet. We'll take the momentum from tonight and take that into practices going into the rest of this week and next week so we'll be ready to go for the region meet." The Bulldogs will be competing in the Region III-5A meet on October 2nd that will be held at the Fort Mill Aquatics Center in Fort Mill, SC. Comments are closed.
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