Austin 200-yard freestyle relay team clinches a trip to state meet
Published 12:46 am Saturday, November 8, 2014
Austin’s Katelyn Hillson swims the 100-yard butterfly Friday at the Section 1A meet at Rochester Recreation Center. Hillson took 11th place with time of 1:03.77. — Micah Bader/Albert Lea Tribune
The Austin 200-yard freestyle relay team had to swim a state cut time to make it to the Class A state meet and that’s exactly what it did at the Section 1A swimming and diving meet in Rochester Friday.
The Packer team of Emma Kleis, Abby Gogolewski, Mikayla Finney and Maddie Kinney shaved 4.5 seconds off of their preliminary time to swim a time of 1:42.20, which was just a shade under the state cut time of 1:42.56.
Austin’s Samantha Sheldon does a backflip Friday at the Section 1A meet at Rochester Recreation Center. Sheldon took 16th place with a score of 233.80. — Micah Bader/Albert Lea Tribune
The 200-freestyle relay team finished ninth in the Section 1A meet and it will compete in the Class A state swimming meet next week.
The Austin 400-yard freestyle relay team of Gogolewski, Finney, Katelyn Hillson and Kinney finished in sixth place Friday.
AUSTIN RESULTS
200-medley relay: Emma Kleis, Sarah Hillson, Katelyn Hillson, Hannah Burkhart (10th, 2:03.41)
200-individual medley: Maddie Kinney (13th, 2:24.58)
50-freestyle: Emma Kleis (16th, 26.23)
Diving: Samantha Sheldon (16th, 233.80)
100-butterfly: Katelyn Hillson (11th, 1:03.77)
100-freestyle: Abby Gogolewski (12th, 57.92)
200-freestyle relay: Emma Kleis, Abby Gogolewski, Mikayla Finney, Maddie Kinney (ninth, 1:42.20)
100-backstroke: Emma Kleis (15th, 1:06.04); Maddie Kinney (16th, 1:08.05)
400-freestyle relay: Abby Gogolewski, MIkayla Finney, Katelyn Hillson, Maddie Kinney (sixth, 3:52.47)
