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Girls Swim and Dive Defeats Conference foe Watertown

By K. Thomes, 10/03/23, 3:30PM CDT

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The Mound Westonka/Holy Family girls swim and dive team hosted Watertown on Sept. 28 and walked away with another conference win.

The Mound Westonka/Holy Family (MWHF) girls swim and dive team hosted Watertown on Sept. 28 and walked away with another conference win.

MWHF dominated the meet, taking first and second place in all but two of the individual events. Ninth grade diver Erika Johnson added another dual-meet win to her perfect season with a first-place finish (199.85).    

MWHF swept the 200 Yard Medley Relay with junior Camille Ness, junior captain Annemarie Johnson, junior Grace Warden and ninth grader Charlotte Lake taking the top spot (2:00.51) ahead of ninth grader Chella Patterson, sophomore Amelia Olson, ninth grader Laney Hendrickson and ninth grader Kayla Quandt in second place and ninth grader Jaylen Juras, senior captain Abigail Ries, sophomore Hayden Nichols and sophomore Izzy Starr in third. 

Hendrickson, Quandt, Ness and junior captain Onna Sullivan won the 200 Yard Freestyle Relay (1:48.15).  Lake, ninth grader Verena Habicht, ninth grader Sadie Cline and sophomore Bella Kirkpatrick finished third. 

Coach Ben Hanson assembled an evenly matched lineup of three teams that swept the loudest event of the evening, the 400 Yard Freestyle Relay, with less than 2 seconds separating first-and third-place finishes. Sullivan, junior Peyton Schmidt, Olson and Johnson finished in first place (5:57.26) ahead of Hendrickson, Quandt, Patterson and Warden in second and Ries, Juras, Starr and Ness in third.

Warden (2:05.89) and Sullivan finished first and second, respectively, in the 200 Yard Freestyle with Patterson in fourth.  Olson out-touched Patterson by 0:00.53 to win the 100 Yard Freestyle (1:02.14); Lake finished third. Johnson (26.63), Ries and Ness swept the 50 Yard Freestyle finishing 1, 2, 3.

Juras had first-place finishes in both of her individual events. She finished first (5:58.15) in the 500 Yard Freestyle with Ries finishing third and Ness in fourth. Juras won the 200 Yard Individual Medley event (2:30.62) ahead of teammates Olson in second and Schmidt in third. 

Hendrickson’s 1:06.47 earned her a first-place finish in the 100 Yard Butterfly. Sullivan finished second and Schmidt was fourth. Quandt won the 100 Yard Backstroke (1:13.06) ahead of Nichols in second and Cline in third. Watertown bested MWHF in the 100 Yard Breaststroke with Lake, seventh grader Anastasia Venikova and Habicht finishing first, second, and third, respectively.

The next meet is Mound Westonka at Delano on Thursday, Oct. 5.