Ashcreek at CORA Meet Recap

The score breakdown by division was as follows:

Novice: CORA 467, Ashcreek 467
Advanced: CORA 223, Ashcreek 138
Junior Varsity: CORA 110, Ashcreek 63
Varsity: CORA 112, Ashcreek 54
Senior Varsity: CORA 224, Ashcreek 73
Combined Team Scores: CORA 1137, Ashcreek 795

Harper Grace Johnson started what might have been CORA's most dominant regular season meet in recent memory, erasing Rebecca Harper's 1995 Girls 11-12 100m IM record (1:14.69) with a 1:11.84.. Nate Doran followed by taking down the Boys 13-14 50m Fly record, beating his elder teammate Brogan VanLesser's 2023 time (29.41) with a 28.72. The 13-14 mixed 200m free relay of Tucker Barnes, Rebecca Crady, Carter Rettig, and Nate Doran then broke the 2018 record held by Hunter Baldwin, Nikola Stefanovski, Angelica Tufaro, and Lexi Ukrop (2:01.91), lowering the mark to 1:59.75. Capping off the night, the 15-18 mixed 200m free relay of Paolo Tique, Sean Rettig, Maren Minor, and Brogan VanLesser broke the 2018 record held by Matthew Cook, Corrine Long, Michael Collier, and Alex Wicks (1:53.54), touching the wall in 1:52.26.

John Grayson Ballou qualified for the Championship meet, bringing our total number of qualifiers to 28.

Quadruple winners were: Andrew Austin, Tucker Barnes, Rebecca Crady, Charlie Doran, Nate Doran, Madeline Fogg, Quinn Holt, Harper Grace Johnson, Owen Merritt, Maren Minor, Aiden Montgomery, Fleet Nystrom, Carter Rettig, Sean Rettig, Cecilia Thorne, Paolo Tique, and Brogan VanLesser.

Triple winners were: Edison Crenshaw, Avery Roberts, Lizzy Thorne, Elena Metz, Tamsin Metz, Tallulah Farnham, Carter Nielsen, Parker Nystrom, Diego Salinas, Layne Smith, and Paco Tique.

Congratulations to all of our Stingray swimmers for a great team effort this week!

Next week we swim at Twin Hickory. Hope to see everyone there!

- Coach Paul