By Sarah Eckersley<\/i><\/p>\n
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, December 9. MORE than 15 meet records were set at the Minnesota Girls High School State Championships. Visitation (268), Monticello (197) and Sartell-St. Stephen (162) were the top teams at the Class A Championships. For Class AA, Stillwater took first with 290 points, followed by Edina (234.5) and Eden Prairie (198).<\/p>\n
Class A Individual Results<\/b>
\nThe Class A State Championships opened with a Class A state record in the 200 medley relay set by Visitation. The quartet of Julie Steege, Olivia McNeely, Maddy DeMeules and Sophie Pilhofer received an AAA cut in the event, posting a 1:48.12.<\/p>\n
Pilofer also had an individual win in the 50 freestyle (23.83). She earned her AAA cut by .09 seconds. McNeely set a Class A record in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.31).<\/p>\n
Audrey Kumm of Hutchinson secured AAA cuts in the 200 IM and the 100 butterfly. In the 200 IM, she surpassed Sammi Husband's (Breck) 2007 record with a time of 2:04.14. Her 100 butterfly time (55.73) exceeded the 2004 Class A record set by Beth Kiczula (Red Wing).<\/p>\n
Spring Lake Park's Tori Raihle won the diving competition with a score of 350.50.<\/p>\n
Senior Meghan Weiss had individual wins in the 200 freestyle (1:52.04) and 100 freestyle. She improved her prior record in the 100 freestyle with a time of 51.17.<\/p>\n
The 500 freestyle Class A record was set by Marisa Wood (Sartell-St. Stephen). She bested the 2001 record of Katie Win (Trinity) with a time of 5:02.05.<\/p>\n
Sartell-St. Stephen and Visitation went head-to-head in the 200 freestyle relay. Sartell-St. Stephen's Tarin Anding, Kate Hellie, Molly Peichel and Wood defeated Visitation by merely .02 seconds (1:37.63).<\/p>\n
Breck's Taylor Foster set a Class A record in the 100 backstroke (56.72). The previous record was held by Nikki Bakke.<\/p>\n
Foster, Molly George, Steege and Weiss (Visitation) concluded the meet with a Class A record in the 400 freestyle relay (3:34.97). The eleven year old record was held by Hutchinson's J. Carlson, L. Guthmiller, K. Jensen and E. Endres. <\/p>\n
Class AA Individual Results<\/b>
\nEden Prairie's 1997 200 medley relay state record was beat by Edina's Madelne Eden, Heather Laedtke, Annalise Colton and Mary Van Metre. The group posted a 1:45.49 in the event.<\/p>\n
Freshman Rachel Bootsma (Eden Prairie) swam a 54.07 in the 100 backstroke to receive the state record.<\/p>\n
Stillwater and Lakeville South tied with a 1:34.80 for the state record in the 200 freestyle relay. Betsy Galenti, Torie Buberl, Monica Radecke, Bowen, Melissa McMahon, Wendy Consoer, Natalie Herrild and Hailey Campbell contributed to the win.<\/p>\n
The state records continued with Kiera Janzen's (Cretin-Derham Hall) 200 freestyle and 500 freestyle (4:51.22). Janzen surpassed Lauren Weis' prelim time of 1:48.59 to set the record in the 200 freestyle. <\/p>\n
Hannah Bowen of Stillwater set state records in the 50 freestyle and the 100 freestyle with times of 22.73 and 49.78 respectively.<\/p>\n
Bowen's teammate, Maggie Keefer, won the diving competition with a score of 493.55.<\/p>\n
The 100 breaststroke record was set by Chaplin Park's Abby Duncan (1:01.30).<\/p>\n
Kaela Anderson, J. Bowen, Galenti and H. Bowen (Stillwater) posted a 3:26.09 for the state record in the 400 freestyle relay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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