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For their second
meet of the season, the Outlaw swimmers returned to Sweet Home to
measure their early training against archrivals Philomath,
Blanchett, Stayton and the host team.
The Outlaws
established several new Sisters High School records and swam a
number of personal bests, inspite of the storm-interrupted meet
and early departure from the competition.
Well
prepared by daily training of close to 3000 yards, the girls
started the meet with a most exciting medley relay, swum by
Brittany Baldessari,
Jessie Swaner,
Courtney Satko
and Felicia
Pledger. Personal bests were
achieved by Jessie Swaner
in the breaststroke (39.0),
Courtney Satko
in the butterfly (31.4) and
Felicia Pledger in the freestyle
(25.9). Their combined time of 2:06.6 was only 1.5 seconds slower
than last year’s winning time at District Championships and
establishes a new Sisters High School record.
The old
record of 2:07.05 was set in 1999
by the relay of Hilary Hedemark,
Meghan Timms,
Rachel Kemp
and Shauna Timms.
The boys
followed with an equally impressive medley relay.
Brian Greaney
set a fast pace in the backstroke (26.2), followed by
Drew Herron’s
outstanding breaststroke leg (PR 38.0),
Holden Sellentin’s
butterfly (PR 29.7) and Thad
Anderson’s debut as anchor in the
freestyle (28.1). Their time of 2:02 put the Outlaws in third
place behind Sweet Home and Blanchett.
Jamie Kemp,
Felicia Pledger
and
Eric Brown competed in the 200 yd
freestyle event. Top finisher,
Felicia
Pledger
touched the wall in second place with a time of 2:12.2 behind
Sweet Home’s Nicole Martin.
Brittany Baldessari
and Courtney
Satko entered the 200 yds
Individual Medley and finished with times of 2:32.5 and 2:42.0,
good enough for second and fourth place respectively.
On the
boys’ side, another Sisters High School record was shattered, when
Brian Greaney
put all four strokes together in a very impressive way. Starting
with a fast butterfly (28.3), he followed with strong segments in
the backstroke (32.0), breaststroke (40.6) and freestyle (30.4) to
topple the old record with a time of 2:11.9.
Greaney’s
time is only one second short of last year’s third place at 3A
State Championships.
Holden Sellentin
swam his first individual medley in 2:33.6, faster than last
year’s 7th fastest time at District prelims.
Eight girls
and six boys battled their competition in the 50 yds freestyle.
Top finishers were Felicia Pledger
with a 25.9 sec. leg and a new Sisters High School record and
first year swimmer, Eli Callan,
with a time of 29.6. Pledger
replaced Baldessari’s
record of 26.5.
In the next
event, Courtney Satko
established herself as one of the district’s top 100 yds
butterfliers. Her time of 1:18.6 was the fifth fastest time during
last year’s District Championship prelims. “With consistent,
focused training during the next six weeks, the Outlaw presence at
Districts will be noticed”, Coach Hedemark commented.
On the
boys’ side, Justin Dean
and Drew Herron
competed successfully in the same event. Their times were 1:29.0
and 1:32.0 respectively.
More
personal records were set in events 11 and 12, the 100 yds
freestyle. Tori Carlson
dropped three seconds off her time
established during the Sweet Home Relay meet December 1 and
touched the wall at 1:15.8.
Flanders finished with 1:14.4 and
Holden Sellentin
swam another personal best in 1:01.5. By the
end of the season, Sellentin
is expected to swim this event in well under one minute.
Two more
records were about to fall toward the end of the competition.
Brian Greaney
rolled through the 500 yds freestyle with a
new Sisters High School record of 5:30.3. His time would have been
the second best at Districts last year. And on the girls’ side,
the foursome of Pledger
(26.1), Swaner
(29.6), Satko
(28.5) and Baldessari
(27.1), with a combined time of 1:51.3, took down the record
(1:55.45) set in 1999 by Chelsea
Meudt,
Jamie Cundiff,
Chelsea Durdan-Shaw
and Hilary Hedemark.
The Outlaws face stiff competition from Sweet Home and Junction
City, whose teams swim this event below 1:50.
The meet
ended with another storm related power outage during the
breaststroke. Inspite of the interruptions, all competitors
finished with personal bests;
Swaner (1:26.4),
Flanders
(1:28.0), Herron
(1:26.0), Dean
(1:29.2).
The next
meet will take the Outlaws to Stayton on January 11, 2007.
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