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Central Swimmers Continue to Improve

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By Coach Osborne
  Given a month in between meets, the Central swim team showed their hard work paying off with even faster times.
All three girls relays showed tremendous improvement.  The meet began with the girls 200 medley relay of Emerald Roney, Lyndee Debetaz, Acacia Porch, and Emily Hollier cutting 8 seconds off their time.  The 200 freestyle relay consisting of Anna Johansson, Claire Holmes, and Destiny Bankston swam 9 seconds faster.  The 400 freestyle relay was 3 seconds faster.  
The boys relays matched the girls effort by finishing third in the 200 medley and 200 freestyle relays by cutting 3 seconds and 2 seconds off their times respectively.
Individually, the Wildcats posted four more state qualifying times.  Matthew Usher swam the 200 freestyle in 2:12.56 and Kade McAdams swam the 200 IM in 2:28.15.  Sean Murphy qualified in the 100 freestyle with a time of 58.69 and the 500 freestyle with a time of 6:09.73.  
At the end of the 500 freestyle, Sean Murphy experienced symptoms of exhaustion.  Thankfully, Sean has recovered and is well.  Nevertheless, Coach Osborne and Coach Hodges are sincerely thankful to the parents with health care training from competing schools (Walker nurse, Episcopal EMT, Catholic fireman) that came to Sean’s aide.  The meet officials and meet management from Crawfish Aquatics were also very supportive.
Without Sean, the boys were unable to participate in the 400 relay which dropped the team out of the top 3.  Meanwhile, many individual swimmers showed considerable improvement.  Chelsea Hambrick, Claire Holmes, and Destiny Bankston reduced their time by over 3 seconds.  Brennon Young continued to improve his 50 freestyle time, and Emerald Roney cut two seconds off her 100 freestyle time.
The final meet before the City Meet will be this Sunday, October 20 at 1:30.
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