By Brian Savard
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, February 22. WHEN the scores were posted at the end of the Kentucky High School State Championships, few could be surprised about the two teams that stood at the top.
Team Scores
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DuPont Manual reached the point where none of their seniors had ever lost a state championship, a feat few high school teams across the nation can boast. The DuPont women took home their fourth-straight state championship by racking up 388 points throughout the meet. Sacred Heart reached the second-place spot with 276 points while the Notre Dame Academy rounded out the top three schools with 201 points.
St. Xavier, a team that coaches almost automatically pencil in as the state champion at the beginning of the year, has not lost a state title since 1988 when it lost to Elizabethtown. This year proved no different, as St. Xavier doubled the point total of the second-place finisher, tallying 447.5 points. Paul Dunbar put out a second-place showing of 204 points while Trinity took third with 175 points.
Women's Individual Results
DuPont Manual walked away with all three relay titles as well as two state records. The 200 medley relay of Heidi Hatteberg, Kelley Hinklin, Leah Reinhardt and Caroline Thomas paced the field, winning in 1:46.66. Hatteberg, Mary Beth Heine, Meredith King and Abbie Fish blew the doors off of the old 200 freestyle relay record, shattering the old standard with a 1:35.99 time. DuPont Manual's 2006 team set the former mark at 1:38.14. The 400 freestyle relay team of Fish, Reinhardt, King and Thomas came within three seconds of the national high school record, winning in a state-record time of 3:27.14. Sacred Heart set the former record (3:29.56) in 2004.
Fish, who received the Outstanding Competitor award on the women's side of competition, struck gold in one event. She crushed the 200 freestyle field, swimming a 1:48.04 time in finals. Her preliminary swim of 1:47.73 erased the former state mark of 1:48.00 set by Caroline Burckle of Sacred Heart in 2004. Fish took second to her teammate, Reinhardt, in the 100 butterfly (55.63). Fish is a Swimming World five-star recruit headed off to the University of Georgia next season.
Paul Dunbar's Kristen Wilson dominated both sprint freestyle events, winning the 50 in a 23.65 time and the 100 in 51.16.
Kaylin Burchell of Model took first in the 200 IM with a 2:03.24 time as well as in the 100 breaststroke, clocking 1:03.09.
Men's Individual Results
St. Xavier swept all three relays. The 200 medley relay team of Ethan Arave, Hank Wall, Maclin Simpson and Michael Embry took down a 2-year-old state record, clocking a 1:33.67. St. Xavier held the former mark of 1:33.90, which its 200 medley relay team set in 2006. The 200 freestyle relay contingent of David Johnson, Embry, Andrew Taylor and Hyatt Gaston fell just short of the 1995 state record, touching the wall in a first-place time of 1:26.30. Johnson, John Bullock, Gaston and Arave won by two seconds in the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 3:11.66.
Eric Bruck of Paul Dunbar garnered the Outstanding Competitor award for the men, placing first in both the 50 freestyle (20.42) and the 100 freestyle (45.57). His Feigen-like showing in the 50 freestyle earned him a state mark as well, erasing the 2007 record of 20.77 set by Colin Faris of St. Patrick.
Jeff Morris of Highlands ended his high school swimming career by capturing state titles in the 200 freestyle (1:40.98) and the 500 freestyle (4:34.51). Morris is a Swimming World three-star recruit who is headed north to the University of Wisconsin next year.
Adam Isaacs from Scott wielded two first-place finishes as well, taking wins in the 200 IM (1:53.86) and the 100 backstroke (51.18). Isaacs, a Swimming World three-star recruit, will stay in state next year and will attend the University of Louisville.
Diving Results
Jessica Lyden of Lexington Catholic bettered the state record in the women's diving event, scoring a meet-high 498.10. Elizabeth Nuckols of Henry Clay set the former mark of 496.35 in 2003. Hannah Gadd of Highlands took second (442.15) while Rebecca Hamperian of Lafayette finished third (439.65).
Manual's Kasey Allen topped the men's side of the diving meet, scoring a 433.40. Andrew Galvagni of Trinity picked up the second-place spot with a 386.10 score while Christopher Sikra of St. Henry took third (372.15).
Results: Kentucky State Championships
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