The Panther

boys had many impressive swims. Noah Copeland finished in first place

in the 200 free, 2:00.56 and first in the 500 free, 5:24.25 and Kyle Flora

finished first in the 200 IM, 2:15.74 and first in the 100 breast, 1:09.89.

Other good swims were from Kenny Jubb, first, 50 free, 23.67 and first

in 100 free, 51.95; Haynes Finney, first, 100 back, 1:06.78 and second

in 100 fly, 1:04.01; Paul Daniel, second, 100 back, 1:13.94; Ricardo Ramos,

third, 50 free, 24.63 and third in the 100 free, 55.81; Chris Frederick,

third, 100 breast, 1:14.26 and Wesley Paxton, third, 500 free, 6:28.17.

The Starr's

Mill girls team also swam well. Brittany Stevens set a new county record

in the 100 butterfly that was set by McIntosh last year. The new record

time is 1:01.62. Stevens was also first in the 50 free with a time of

26.56. Other medal winners for the girls were Samantha Hudson, first,

200 free, 2:24.05 and second in the 100 free, 1:03.41; Brittney Wester,

third, 50 free, 29.65; Laurel Surratt, third, 100 free, 1:03.53; Kim Wetter,

third 500 free, 6:56.68 and Krista Ulrich, third, 100 back, 1:16.12.

The Panther

boys relays placed first in each of their events. Jubb, Finney, Flora

and Ramos swam the 200 yard medley in 1:52.29. The relay team of Flora,

Ramos, Brandon Watkins and Jubb swam the 200 free relay in 1:38.53, which

is a state qualifying time. Finney, Paxton, Daniel and Copeland swam the

400 yard freestyle relay in 3:57.33, and Kris Pretzer, Josh Jiricek, Anthony

Paxton and Brandon Watkins won a third place medal with a time of 4:10.81.

The Panther

girls relay teams placed second in each of their events, and also won

a third place medal in the 200 free relay. Ulrich, Surratt, Stevens and

Jessica Lovelace swam the 200 medley relay in 2:09.58. The 200 free relay

team of Hudson, Wester, Libby Hardison and Stevens had a time of 1:55.15,

and the third place team of Amanda Petersson, Lorraine Norris, Ann Thrasher

and Surratt swam it in 2:03.83. The 400 free relay team of Hardison, Ulrich,

Lovelace and Hudson had a time of 4:27.12.

The Starr's

Mill Panthers will be taking three individual swimmers and four relay

teams to the state meet at Westminster on Feb. 14-16.

McIntosh will

send 12 swimmers going to the state meet.

"We had

excellent swims out of Asami Mase, Lindsey Lochridge, Junko Mase, Sarah

Harmon and Tiffany Grant for the girls," said Coach Polly Kichefski.

"The boys got excellent swims out of Chris Koperniak, Chris Lee,

Jeb Beard, and Phil Hesser."

The girls team

won all 3 relays, Asami Mase and Lochridge finished first and third in

the 200 IM and in the 100 breast lochridge and Junko Mase finished first

and second.

Hilary White

won the girls 100 backstroke and Asami Mase won the 100 freestyle.

They boys came

in second in the 200 medley relay and also the 200 freestyle relay. George

Clark took second in the 200 freestyle and also the 500 freestyle. Koperniak

and Beard finished second and third in the 200 IM.

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