Austin 200-yard freestyle relay team advances to consolation finals at state meet
Published 4:25 pm Thursday, November 13, 2014
Mikayla Finney of Austin prepares to swim the third leg of the 200-yard freestyle relay Thursday in the Class A state prelims at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center. — Micah Bader/Albert Lea Tribune
The Austin 200-yard freestyle relay team wasn’t even sure if it would get to the Class A state meet a week ago and now the team is headed to the consolation finals.
Maddie Kinney of Austin looks back at the scoreboard after swimming the last leg of the 200-yard freestyle relay Thursday in the Class A state prelims at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center. The team qualified for finals by finishing 13th with a time of 1:42.12. — Micah Bader/Albert Lea Tribune
The Packer team of Emma Kleis, Abby Gogolewski, Mikayla Finney and Maddie Kinney took 13th out of 23 teams at the Class A swimming preliminaries at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis Thursday.
The team, which swam a time of 1:42.12 on Thursday, will now swim in Friday’s finals, which begin at noon at the Aquatic Center.
Visitation/Mendota Heights had the fastest time in Thursday’s preliminaries with a new Class A record time of 1:36.00.
