Lebanon head varsity swim coach David Krev reported that the varsity girls swim team took seventh place out of 21 schools at Saturday’s Ozarks Invitational, which was held in Springfield.
He wrote that the “excellent” meet saw 11 of 13 Lebanon swimmers make season best times, with the two other swimmers narrowly missing best times.
The relay team of Missy Mizell, Evelyn Martin, Addyson McKnight and Milly Hough improved their state ranking to seventh in the 200-yard freestyle relay and ninth in the 400-yard freestyle relay, he said.
“All of their (the team’s) tireless and hard work is beginning to show results,” he said, adding that the team’s next meeting was this Thursday in Carthage.
He also provided the meet’s results sheet. The times in parentheses are finals times:
In the 200-yard medley relay, the team of Addalynne Buttram, Abigail Tague, Kamilla Windsor and Olivia Johnson took 16th place (2:39.79 minutes) out of 17 placed teams.
Johnson took 18th place in the 200-yard freestyle (2.29.68 minutes) and Leeann Westergaard 47th (3:11.95 minutes) out of 51 swimmers.
Martin took second place (2:26.53 minutes, which exceeded the state consideration time), in the 200-yard individual medley out of 29 placed swimmers.
Mizell earned first place (1:00.56 minutes, which exceeded the state consideration time) out of 23 swimmers in the 100-yard butterfly.
In the 100-yard freestyle, McKnight earned eighth place (1:02.23 minutes), Tague 31st (1:13.49 minutes), Braylee Breedlove 49th (1:27.87 minutes), Gress 50th (1:32.58 minutes) and Davina Blackburn 54th (exhibition time of 1:36.35 minutes) out of 61 placed swimmers.
Hough earned 15th place (6:42.76 minutes), Johnson 16th (6:47.63 minutes), Tague 29th (7:45.19 minutes) and Westergaard 32nd (8:20.35 minutes) out of 33 swimmers in the 500-yard freestyle.
The team of Martin, Hough, McKnight and Mizell earned second place (1:47.74 minutes) out of 18 placed teams in the 200-yard freestyle relay.
Mizell earned first place in the 100-yard backstroke (1:01.27 minutes, which exceeded the state consideration time), and Breedlove earned 42nd (1:46.3 minutes) out of 48 placed swimmers.
In the 100-yard breaststroke, Martin earned third place (1:14.26 minutes, which exceeded the state consideration time) out of 35 swimmers.
The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Hough, Martin, McKnight, and Mizell earned second place (4:02.08 minutes) out of 15 placed teams.
Monett preceded Lebanon in sixth place, and Kickapoo followed Lebanon in eighth place.
