2025 All-News-Herald Women Swimming and Diving Workforce – The News Herald

[EDITOR’S NOTE: The all-News-Herald girls swim team features any Downriver-area swimmer or diver that won an event at the Downriver Classic and/or qualified for the state finals as an individual or as part of a relay.]

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The Michigan highschool women swimming and diving season wrapped up final weekend with three state championship meets being held across the state.

More than two dozen swimmers from Downriver space faculties have been readily available at both the Division 2 or Division 3 state meets, with no staff being represented greater than the one at Gibraltar Carlson.

The native area’s high women swim staff from begin to end all season, Carlson emerged as this 12 months’s annual Downriver Classic champions — doing so for the primary time in practically twenty years — earlier than later capturing this system’s first-ever Downriver League championship.

A byproduct of Carlson’s season-long success within the pool was sending seven swimmers to the D2 state finals. Headlining that bunch are a pair of soon-to-be graduating seniors in Ashlyn Taylor and Kiley Lewandowski, who mixed swam in 5 completely different occasions at states, two of which have been as relay mates.

Taylor competed within the preliminary heats of each the 200-yard particular person medley in addition to the 100-yard butterfly, the latter of which she was the champion of on the Downriver Classic. Lewandowski in the meantime swam within the prelims within the 200-yard freestyle.

The two classmates for Carlson then collaborated with a number of teammates within the prelims for each the 200-yard freestyle relay and 400-yard freestyle relay races. Junior Jordan Sikora was current for each of these occasions, whereas a pair of freshmen in Brielyn Snyr-Duenas and Reagan Randazzo have been a part of the 200 and 400 editions, respectively.

The 400 free relay state-qualifying staff of Taylor, Lewandowski, Sikora, and Randazzo was additionally answerable for one of many 5 occasion victories for Carlson on the DRC. Taylor and Lewandowski accounted for 2 every as effectively. The former gained the 100 fly and the 100-yard backstroke, whereas the latter claimed the highest spot within the 200 free and 500-yard freestyle races.

Carlson was within the subject for all three relays on the state finals, which have been held on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.

Randazzo, who additionally competed alongside Taylor within the 100 fly at states, swam within the 200-yard medley relay prelims. In reality, it was an all-freshman foursome for the Marauders there with Randazzo joined by Snyr-Duenas, Brooklyn Koons, and Ada Cain.

Koons was additionally a state qualifier as a person this previous season, swimming within the prelim heats of the backstroke occasion on the finals.

If there was a program who was nearly stride for stride with Carlson all through the season, it was the one from Allen Park, which the Marauders dethroned as DRC and DRL champions this 12 months. The unquestioned catalyst for the Jags this fall was none aside from Peyton Theisen.

Now a three-time all-News-Herald honoree in her highschool profession, Theisen at states swam in prelim heats for each the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle occasions, each of which she was the champion of on the Downriver Classic. The senior then grouped up with classmate Cameron Maldonado, junior Brooklyn Brandly, and freshman Avery Stetz to compete within the prelims of the medley relay and 200 free relay races.

Allen Park on the DRC matched Carlson with 5 first-place finishes with each the medley relay and 200 free relay being two of these victories. It was the identical quartet of Theisen, Maldonado, Brandly, and Stetz putting first within the 200 free relay, whereas Theisen and Brandly then labored with freshman Jessica Clair and senior Emma Brown to win the medley relay.

Clair has already made an enormous early splash for the Jags to start her highschool profession, profitable the 100-yard breaststroke occasion on the DRC whereas additionally ending runner-up in each that occasion in addition to the IM on the DRL championship meet.

One program who may very effectively be making its climb again as much as native supremacy is Trenton, whose six D3 state-qualifying swimmers was second solely to Carlson among the many space packages. Two of these six for the Trojans — Sofia D’Alimonte and Charlotte Cheney — are solely freshmen that ended up competing within the finals warmth for his or her respective qualifying occasions.

D’Alimonte ended up ending thirteenth in diving, one week after putting third on the regional meet. matched that putting within the finals of the five hundred free. Cheney in the meantime completed thirteenth within the finals of the five hundred free, whereas additionally competing within the finals of the 200 free.

Trenton elsewhere at states was additionally a consultant within the prelims of the medley relay due to the staff of juniors Trinity Kelly and Delaney Cannon, and sophomores Leland Tait and Isabella D’Alimonte. Both Kelly and Tait have been particular person state qualifiers elsewhere, the previous within the breaststroke and the latter within the 50 free.

A few Huron League rival faculties — Flat Rock and Grosse Ile — every had one particular person state qualifier in addition to one qualifying relay on the D3 finals.

For Flat Rock, Aileen McNamara competed within the prelim heats of each the 100 fly and 100 backstroke on the finals. The youthful sister of former multiple-time state champion Lauren McNamara, the junior Aileen additionally competed within the prelims of the 400 free relay alongside classmate Elizabeth Sparks in addition to seniors Ashlin Woodman and Riley Chevalier.

Meanwhile for Grosse Ile, Aurelia Miles made her second journey to states in as many seasons after putting ninth in regionals every week prior. The senior was not alone on the finals as she noticed teammates Olivia Miller, Reese Wood, Ripley Booker, and Lina Shihadeh all swim within the prelims of the 200 free relay.

Miles was one among three native prep divers to qualify for the state finals with Wyandotte Roosevelt’s Joanna Miciura headlining that crew. Arguably the Downriver space’s greatest diver all through her profession, Miciura parlayed each a DRC and DRL diving crown into a 3rd consecutive state finals look.

As for the staff at Riverview, they housed one among native space’s extra versatile swimmers in Amelia Czata.

Another three-time all-area honoree, the junior Czata helped break up a close to clear sweep for Carlson and Allen Park together with her first-place end within the IM, an occasion she certified for states in on the D3 degree.