The Boiling Springs swim team is one of the smaller teams in their region but came away on Saturday afternoon with numerous region championships and podium finishes from the Region III-5A swim meet held at the Fort Mill Aquatics Center.
Boiling Springs knew going into the region meet that they were at a disadvantage being one of the smaller teams but they didn't let that hold them back as they captured five region championships and three more podium finishes on Saturday. "We had a great region championship," said Bulldogs head coach Lanie Peden. "Almost one-hundred percent of our team had their best times and I couldn't ask for anything more. The kids done a great job motivating each other and really being a team today. When you go into a championship, knowing that the rules favor larger teams, it takes a lot of mental toughness to focus on your individual goals and swim best times which our kids done just that." The Bulldogs boy's 200y medley relay team (Will Humphreys, Ashton Threadgill, Garrett Watson, and Miles Humphreys) won the region championship with a time 1:41.75 finishing almost five seconds ahead of second place Clover. Will Humphreys won his second region championship in the meet when he won the 200y freestyle event in a time of 1:47.77 which was was over three seconds of the second place finisher. Humphreys added his third region championship of the meet winning 500y freestyle event with a time of 4:53.64 which was almost ten seconds ahead of the second place swimmer. Ashton Threadgill added his second region championship in the 200y individual medley finishing the event in a time of 2:05.18 giving him a four second victory in the event. Threadgill, like Humphreys, added a third region championship to his performance at the region meet when he came with the victory in the 100y breaststroke with a time of 1:02.20, which was two seconds ahead of his next closest opponent. Garrett Watson was just a second from adding his second region championship title in the 100y butterfly event as he came away with a second place podium finish with a time of 57.37. The boy's 400y freestyle relay team (Humphreys, Watson, Threadgill, and Miles Humphreys) also added a second place podium finish to their outstanding performance at the region meet with a time of 3:23.36 which was just under two seconds from being another region championship for the Bulldogs swim team. With the outstanding performance from the boy's swim team they came away with a third place overall finish at the region meet, finishing ahead of Gaffney and a much larger Clover team. "Our boys finished in third place over Clover for the first time which was a goal of ours," said Peden. "Now we wait to see who gets the invites to the state meet." Morgan Greenlee came away with a third place podium finish in the 100y butterfly event with a time of 1:02.64 which was just over a second from being a region championship. "My girls relay team swam their hearts out and are right there on the fence in regards to getting an invite to state and will be watching the scores all weekend long to see where we stand," said Peden. "I also want to give a huge shout out to Morgan Greenlee for making an automatic state cut in the 100y butterfly." The next scheduled event for the Bulldogs swim team will be the state championship meets held on October 8-9 at the North Charleston Aquatics Center. They will wait for all region championship meets to be completed before they know how many members of the team will be competing in the state championship meet. Comments are closed.
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