Seabreeze, DeLand place in prime half at FHSAA swimming meets

• Seabreeze High School’s girls and boys swim groups each positioned within the prime 15 on the Class 3A state championships.
• DeLand High School’s women workforce tied for twenty first place on the Class 4A state meet.

Seabreeze’s girls and boys ended up across the identical spot.

At the Class 3A state swimming championships Saturday, Nov. 15, at Florida Aquatics Swimming Training in Ocala, the Sandcrab boys settled into twelfth out of 42 groups with 71 factors. The women tied Cape Coral for thirteenth out of 38 with 46 factors.

Freshman Reef McMeeking recorded their finest end of the day. He secured third place within the 200-yard IM, laying down a time of 1:49.59.

Junior Kai McMeeking captured sixth within the 100-yard breaststroke (1:00.03) and eleventh within the 100-yard freestyle (47.27).

In the 200-yard medley relay, Reef and Kai McMeeking, together with junior Arthur Simpson and senior Tyler Smith, teamed up for eighth place with a time of 1:38.76.

The McMeekings, Smith and junior Carter Eby claimed tenth within the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:28.39).

The women additionally positioned in two relays. 

In the 200-yard medley relay, sophomore Noelle Dragstedt, sophomore Eppie Kohaney, senior Laurel Carson and senior Addie Smurdon completed twelfth in 1:54.82. In the 200-yard freestyle relay, the identical 4 touched the wall thirteenth in 1:43.15.

Carson and Dragstedt tied for the very best particular person mark. Carson took seventh within the 50-yard freestyle (24.54) whereas Dragstedt was seventh within the 100-yard butterfly (59.15).

Carson additionally contributed a 14th-place end within the 100-yard freestyle (54.63). In the identical occasion, Addie Smurdon adopted in sixteenth with a time of 55.25.

DeLand locations at Class 4A state meet

DeLand vaulted onto the highest half of the women leaderboard at Class 4A states Friday at FAST. It registered 25 factors, tying Winter Park for twenty first out of 47 groups.

Junior Lexie O’Keefe notched two top-10 finishes. She sped to sixth within the 50-yard freestyle, posting a time of 23.92. In the 100-yard freestyle, she claimed eighth in 52.02.

Senior Piper Jemison additionally certified for the 100-yard backstroke finals, the place she landed sixteenth with a 1:00.59.