2 Northlanders win 3 medals at state swimming and diving meet

MINNEAPOLIS — Northern Minnesotans gained three medals on the ladies state swimming and diving meet Thursday by means of Saturday, Nov. 13-15, in Minneapolis.

The two student-athletes who gained them are the identical two who set new part information on their option to state.

Park Rapids junior Avery Schueller completed third within the 50 freestyle and fifth within the 100 freestyle, and Two Harbors senior Bella Imholte took seventh within the 200 freestyle.

Only the highest eight earn medals on the state meet. But Imholte additionally gained the comfort last within the 100 backstroke, and Schueller and the remainder of the Park Rapids 200 freestyle relay workforce additionally completed ninth.

Five extra relays raced within the comfort finals: the Brainerd 200 freestyle completed tenth and the 400 freestyle completed eleventh, the Bemidji 200 freestyle completed thirteenth and the Rock Ridge 200 freestyle completed fifteenth and the 400 freestyle sixteenth.

Brainerd senior Avery Duerr was a part of each relay groups and in addition completed eleventh within the 100 breaststroke. Also ending eleventh have been Detroit Lakes freshman Grace Hamm within the 100 butterfly and Hibbing senior Raini Gibson within the 50 freestyle. Gibson additionally raced within the 100 butterfly comfort finals, ending up 14th.

Brainerd eighth grader Blair Ahlquist was the one Northland diver to advance to the finals, the place she positioned thirteenth. Two others competed within the semifinals, each from Park Rapids: senior Grace Officer (18th) and sophomore Karlee Rowland (twentieth).