The 6A Georgia High School State Championships for Swimming and Diving are set to start today, beginning with diving afternoon and swimming preliminaries Friday and finals Saturday evening. \u00a0Both women and men will be competing at the Georgia Tech Campus, and one look at the psych sheet has us all prepared for some quick swims.<\/p>\n
As always, relays are key in this format, so keep an eye out for swimmers laying it all out on the line for their school. \u00a0Walton High School is looking strong, seeded first in both the 200 and 400 Freestyle Relays. \u00a0The 200 Medley Relay however is looking to be a much tighter match up with the top three seeded teams within a second of each other. \u00a0Addie Bullock<\/strong>, a freshman from Kennesaw Mountain High School, is ranked first in the 100 Butterfly and second in the 200 IM.<\/p>\n On the men’s side, Walton High School enters this meet as the two time defending state champions. \u00a0They have some work and fast swimming ahead of them, as they are only ranked first in the 200 Medley Relay. \u00a0In the individual format the sprints look, as always, like a close and fun event. \u00a0Colin Riley<\/strong> from Lassiter High School is ranked first in the 100 Freestyle by a mere two hundredths, and less than two tenths away from top seed in the 50 Free, behind Norcross High School’s Senior\u00a0Eric Strickland<\/strong>. \u00a0Others to watch out for include Taylor Delk<\/strong> from Collins Hill High School. \u00a0He is the top seed in the 100 Backstroke, as well as the 500 Freestyle, ahead of the second seed by more than eight seconds.<\/p>\n As all teams travel to Atlanta with their school pride on the line, it is inevitable that we will see some inspiring swims!<\/p>\n The meet starts today\u00a0with diving at 1 PM and Prelims and Finals at 6 PM, Thursday and Friday. \u00a0Tickets are 12\u00a0dollars per day.<\/p>\n Get ready to see some quick swims!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 6A Georgia High School State Championships for Swimming and Diving are set to start today, beginning with diving afternoon and swimming preliminaries Friday and finals Saturday evening. \u00a0Both women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":48865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[66990,47812],"class_list":["post-182934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-high-school","tag-georgia-high-school-swimming","tag-nikki-cannon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n