MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., February 24. <\/p>\n
Class A
\nHutchinson won its second Class A state high school championship title convincingly, accumulating nearly 60 more points than defending champion Red Wing. <\/p>\n
Runner-up Northfield finished 40 points ahead of Red Wing. Red Wing, the three-time defending champion, had to settle for third. Hutchinson, which won the first Class A title in 1997, scored 222 points; Northfield scored 205.5; Red Wing finished with 165.5. Hutchinson won two of the three relays, which carry double the points of the other events, and set a new Class A meet record of 1:49.54 in the 200-yard medley relay.<\/p>\n
Four individuals returned for more gold in six events. Only two were successful, however, each was twice successful. Hutchinson junior Lindsay Wegner defended her 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard butterfly titles. Wegner\u2019s defense of the IM title was accomplished in Class A meet record time. <\/p>\n
Rosemount\u2019s Patti Wegner set the previous mark of 2:09.09 in 1999. Lindsay Wegner\u2019s time of 2:08.77 is the new mark. Lauren Bergstrom, a junior at Benilde-St. Margaret\u2019s of St. Louis Park, also defended her 200-yard freestyle and 500-yard freestyle titles.<\/p>\n
Three other Class A meet records were also established. Fergus Falls junior Stacy Busack set two of them. Fourth last year in the 50-yard freestyle, Busack not only won the event this year but in record time of 23.59 seconds, 26-hundredths of a second faster than the previous mark. Busack, second last year in the 100-yard freestyle, returned this year to win it, again in record time of 51.74 seconds, 83-hundredths of a second faster than the previous mark. Hutchinson ninth-grader Nikki Bakke set a record in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 58.41 seconds, 42-hundredths of a second better than the previous mark.<\/p>\n
Class AA
\nThe Hornets of Edina returned to their winning ways, winning two of the three relays and one individual event, but high-enough finishes in others to tally 275 points. Defending champion Burnsville had to settle for second place with 187.5 points. Eagan was third with 160 points.<\/p>\n
The Class AA swimmers also accounted for one new all-time record and two new Class AA records. Eagan senior Roxanne Akradi won the 100-yard backstroke in state meet all-time record time: 55.37 seconds. She had actually set the new mark of 55.83, a tenth-of-a second better than the previous record, during her preliminary heat on Fri., Nov. 14. The new record is now 55.37. Akradi also won the 50-yard freestyle. <\/p>\n
The two Class AA records came in the 200-yard freestyle relay with Edina\u2019s 1:36.80 performance, just three-hundredths of a second off the all-time record, and in the 100-yard breaststroke with Burnsville ninth-grader Kerry Kraemer\u2019s swim of 1:03.32, nearly a full second faster than the previous mark.<\/p>\n
Three teams defended their relay titles: Burnsville in the 200-yard medley relay and Edina in the other two. Champions in five individual events returned to defend titles: Rochester John Marshall junior Jenny Shaughnessy succeeded in the 200-yard individual medley; Burnsville senior Emily Gregory succeeded in the 100-yard butterfly; Akradi repeated in the backstroke; and Kraemer repeated in the breaststroke.<\/p>\n
The 2003 State Girls\u2019 Swimming and Diving Meet was held Nov. 13-15 at the University of Minnesota Aquatic center in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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