Supporting the small-town business revolution promotion, The Dalles swim team members take time out from practice to promote the event that concluded on Jan. 21. The winning town will be selected on Jan. 28. In the photo are, from left to right, starting in the back row, Hannah Haight, Jonathan Snodgrass, Xander Kirby and William Hoover. In the middle row are, from left, Maisie Bandel-Ramirez, Kennedy Abbas, Kendall Webber, Hanna Rodriguez and Addison Little. In the front row are Bryce Harris, Lydia DiGennaro, Paige Compton, Michael Cole, Skyler Coburn, Lydia Evans and Frances Fuller. At Friday’s Philomath Tri-Meet, TD racked up 10 wins and six seconds.
Supporting the small-town business revolution promotion, The Dalles swim team members take time out from practice to promote the event that concluded on Jan. 21. The winning town will be selected on Jan. 28. In the photo are, from left to right, starting in the back row, Hannah Haight, Jonathan Snodgrass, Xander Kirby and William Hoover. In the middle row are, from left, Maisie Bandel-Ramirez, Kennedy Abbas, Kendall Webber, Hanna Rodriguez and Addison Little. In the front row are Bryce Harris, Lydia DiGennaro, Paige Compton, Michael Cole, Skyler Coburn, Lydia Evans and Frances Fuller. At Friday’s Philomath Tri-Meet, TD racked up 10 wins and six seconds.
Lydia DiGennaro, Kendall Webber and Bryce Harris each picked up multiple individual wins, and the boys and girls relays combined for two victories, three seconds, a third and a fourth-place outcome at last Friday’s Philomath Tri-Meet Swim Event.
Harris, a senior, logged freestyle wins in the 50-yard (24.87 seconds) and 100-yard (56.76), DiGennaro was tops in the 50-yard freestyle (26.78) and 100-yard butterfly (1:10.45), and Webber tacked on firsts in the 200-yard (2:15.03) and 500-yard freestyle (6:05.00).
Skyler Coburn had a top finish in the boys 200-yard individual medley (2:41.54), Jonathan Snodgrass padded his stats with a first in the boys 500-yard freestyle (7:28.37), and Kennedy Abbas placed first in the girls 100-yard backstroke (1:15.78).
Taking seconds for the Riverhawk girls were Hannah Haight in the 500-yard freestyle (6:43.61) and Maisie Bandel-Ramirez in the 100-yard freestyle (1:03.22).
Haight scored third place in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:24.00), Paige Compton hit for third in the 200-yard (2:31.37) and 500-yard freestyle (7:04.14), Bandel-Ramirez cleaned up for third in the 50-yard freestyle (29.95) and Abbas turned in a third-place effort in the 200-yard individual medley (2:48.00).
Hanna Rodriguez picked up fourth place in the 100-yard freestyle (1:16.31), Addison Little scored sixth in the 100-yard backstroke (1:41.87), Lydia Evans claimed sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:43.34), and Rodriguez chalked up seventh in the 200-yard freestyle (3:01.05).
“The girls team has been doing amazing and they are winning a lot of races,” TD head coach Derek Shortt said.
Boys taking second place individually were Xander Kirby in the 200-yard individual medley (2:41.43). Snodgrass ended up third in the 200-yard freestyle (2:44.09), Cole placed fourth in the 100-yard butterfly (1:16.83), and Coburn was good for fourth place in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:22.54).
Cole reeled off fifth place in the 50-yard freestyle (27.16), Kirby added a fifth in the 100-yard butterfly (1:28.76), and William Hoover turned in a 1:26.93 for fifth place in the 100-yard breaststroke and was eighth in the 100-yard freestyle (1:12.80).
On the relays, the girls 200-yard medley relay quartet of Webber, Haight, Bandel-Ramirez and DiGennaro destroyed the field in 2:09.84 for first place, and also earning top billing was the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Webber, Abbas, Little and DiGennaro (1:52.42).
The girls 400-yard freestyle relay squad made up of Rodriguez, Compton, Haight and Abbas combined for a 4:49.48 to lock down second place, and Rodriguez, Evans, Bandel-Ramirez and Compton timed out in a solid 2:15.44 to secure fourth place the 200-yard freestyle relay.
“I can’t tell you how proud I am of the girls relays,” Shortt said. “They are firing on all cylinders and swimming strong.”
On the mark for the boys, the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Harris, Coburn, Cole and Hoover dialed in a 1:48.40 to take second place, the 200-yard medley relay grouping of Hoover, Coburn, Kirby and Snodgrass tallied second place after their 2:11.98.
Harris, Kirby, Cole and Grant Loughmiller rounded out the relay standouts with their total of 4:13.98 in the boys 400-yard freestyle relay, which gave them third place.
While he is a critical piece of the boys relays, Harris is making plenty of noise in his freestyle runs.
“Bryce is having a killer year,” coach Shortt said. “He is under 25 seconds for the 50 freestyle and will do a lot of damage at districts.”
As the season wears on, the schedule is expected to get much tougher for the Riverhawk swimmers.
Up next, TD travels to Madras for a meet this weekend at 10 a.m. Saturday, and then they travel to Sam Barlow next Thursday, Jan. 30.
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