Austin swimmers compete in sectional
Published 12:09 am Thursday, November 10, 2011
Austin Autumn Laury makes her first dive Wednesday during the Section 1A Preliminaries at Ellis Middle School.
The Austin girls swimming and diving team held the Section 1A preliminaries at Ellis Middle School Wednesday.
Austin's Merideth Fritz swims the 200 yard freestyle during the Section 1A Swimming and Diving preliminaries Wednesday at Ellis Middle School. - Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com
Austin sophomore Autumn Laury qualified for the diving finals and she is in fifth place with 205.05 points.
The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Mikayla Finney, Heather Johnson, Merideth Fritz and Helen Heimark took fifth and is just over a second from the state cut time and the 400-yard freestyle team of Heimark, Fritz, Lindsey Halsey and Finney took third and is two seconds from the state cut time.
Fritz took third in the 100-yard butterfly and is 2.3 seconds off the state cut time, and Heimark took sixth in the 200-yard freestyle and was just 2.2 seconds off the state cut time.
Emily McAlister took sixth in the 200-yard individual medley and fourth in the 100-yard butterfly.
The Section 1A finals will take place at Ellis Friday at 7 p.m.
AUSTIN RESULTS
Austin's Emily McAlister swims the butterfly portion of the 200 medley relay during the Section 1A Swimming and Diving Preliminaries Wednesday at Ellis Middle School. - Eric Johnson/photodesk@austindailyherald.com
200-yard medley relay: Lindsey Halsey, Heather Johnson, Emily McAlister, Lauren Edwards (eighth, 2:00.81)
200-yard freestyle: Helen Heimark (sixth, 2:03.30); Merideth Fritz (11th, 2:09.24); Rachel Vos (17th, 2:13.30)
200-yard individual medley: Emily McAlister (sixth, 2:24.84); Maddie Kinney (10th, 2:26.7)
50-yard freestyle: Heather Johnson (10th, 26.14); Lauren Edwards (19th, 27.20);
Diving: Autumn Laury (fifth, 205.05); Bailey Corey (13th, 171.10); Michelle Erdahl (22nd, 94.65)
100-yard butterfly: Merideth Fritz (third, 1:04.42); Emily McAlister (fourth, 1:04.44); Katelyn Hillson (15th, 1:10.82)
100-yard freestyle: Mikayla Finney (15th, 57.65); Lindsey Halsey (16th, 58.05)
500-yard freestyle: Rachel Vos (seventh, 5:52.71); Lindsey McAlister (10th, 5:55.87)
200-yard freestyle relay: Mikayla Finney, Heather Johnson, Merideth Fritz, Helen Heimark (fifth, 1:44.42)
100-yard backstroke: Maddie Kinney (10th, 1:07.69); Lindsey Halsey (17th, 1:09.20)
100-yard breaststroke: Heather Johnson (19th, 1:19.59)
400-yard freestyle relay: Helen Heimark, Merideth Fritz, Lindsey Halsey, Mikayla Finney (third, 3:49.65)
