Hudson ladies dominate Suburban League swim meet with 10 occasion wins

Hudson has had a stranglehold on the Suburban League National Conference ladies swimming title for the previous decade.

Based on outcomes Jan. 3 on the University of Akron’s Ocasek Natatorium, the Explorers do not plan on relinquishing their grasp.

Hudson dominated the women race on the Suburban League Championships, profitable with 561 factors and claiming 9 of 11 occasions, together with all three relays. Nordonia was second with 348 factors.

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The National Conference boys meet was extra aggressive by the swimming occasions. Solon led the title race with 403 factors, and Hudson was second with 343, regardless of not profitable any particular person occasions.

Team outcomes can be closing Jan. 5 after the diving competitors at Twinsburg.

Noting the Explorers had been hit exhausting by sickness and heavy exercises throughout the holidays, Hudson coach Matt Davis mentioned he was completely satisfied along with his crew.

“The girls have been a lot of fun this year,” Davis mentioned. “We’ve had lot of young girls come in over the years who have been training hard, doing the right things and getting better every time out. Today was fun because we had kids swimming in ‘off’ events and put some really good times in those events.”

One Hudson lady who was swimming her regular slate was Madeleine Drolshagen, who introduced residence the “sprint double” in addition to serving on Hudson’s profitable 200-yard medley and 200 freestyle relays.

Drolshagen received the 50 free in 24.34 seconds and the 100 free in 54.34.

“Just to come out with something close to a personal best today was tremendous,” Drolshagen mentioned. “I like these events, either 50 or 100 free. My goal is to make it to the final at states, make it to that second day.”

Perhaps most spectacular was the very fact Hudson had so many alternative particular person champions.

Hudson obtained wins from Ru Agee within the 200 free (2:03.49), Shannon Dressler within the 200 particular person medley (2:20.25), Nicole Pavlik within the 100 backstroke (1:00.59) and Lena Clifford within the 100 breaststroke.

Only Solon’s Victoria Khorishko, who received the 100 butterfly and 500 free, saved Hudson from sweeping the titles.

Wadsworth’s Tony Canfora wins three titles at Suburban League meet

The boys meet proved to be a coming-out get together for the Wadsworth’s Tony Canfora, who received three occasions.

Canfora received titles within the 50 free (25.19) and 100 butterfly (53.26) and in addition anchored the Grizzlies’ profitable 200 free relay (1:34.07).

“I felt great,” Canfora mentioned. “Practices have been tough, but I’ve got a lot training partners and a great group of kids. We’ve got a lot of [personal records] today, so it’s been a great meet. We’ve had a bunch of good guys come in over the last couple of years.”

Twinsburg freshman Thesath Wickramasinghe was one other breakout star. Wickramasinghe opened the meet by profitable the 200 IM in 1:58.83 after which received the 100 breaststroke in 1:02.06.

“I was really nervous,” he mentioned. “I just went out and didn’t focus on other people. I just wanted to swim my own race.”

The Stow boys had a great meet within the distance occasions. The Bulldogs’ Will Novak received the 200 free (1:51.73) and Carson May received the five hundred free (4:53.26).

“It’s kind of a secondary event for both of the boys. Will and Carson have worked so hard on it,” Stow coach Ryan Miller mentioned. “What’s most impressive is, coming out of our holiday training, they’re dead tired after everything. They laid it out there. It’s a confidence builder for us knowing that it’s later in the season.”

Davis mentioned Hudson’s younger boys squad did nicely, regardless of not profitable any occasions.

“On the guys side, we’ve been fighting hard all year,” Davis mentioned. “We’ve got a lot of good, young kids; most of our kids are freshman and sophomores. We lost a lot last year. Six of our seven kids that went to state graduated, so we wanted to just come out here and race.”

Contact Michael Leonard at mleonard@recordpub.com.