State swimming qualifiers from Richland, Crawford, Ashland County

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CANTON – The C.T. Branin Natatorium higher put together for an area takeover.

A complete of fifty qualifying spots will go to swimmers from Richland, Crawford, and Ashland counties this week with divers slated to compete on Tuesday and Wednesday, swimmers on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Ontario led the best way with 14 swimmers combining for 19 qualification spots in particular person races and all six relays. Lexington is sending 11 swimmers, Colonel Crawford may have seven proficient ladies in attendance, and Ashland, Mansfield Senior, Clear Fork, and Loudonville every have one qualifier.

Let’s check out who will likely be swimming in Canton this week.

Tuesday, Feb. 24 — Boys diving

From 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., a trio of Lexington divers will compete for glory within the Division II match. Sophomores Quintenn Anderson and Adam Britton are making their second state look already, whereas freshman Ezra Mueller makes his debut. Anderson is scheduled to dive ninth, Britton sixteenth, and Mueller thirtieth within the group of 32 qualifiers.

And that afternoon from 2:30 p.m. to six p.m. would be the Division I match that includes a pair of seniors in Mansfield Senior’s Nicholas Shaffer and Ashland’s Samuel Wolfe; Shaffer will dive ninth and Wolfe twenty first out of 32.

Thursday, Feb. 26 — Division II preliminaries

Starting at 5 p.m., swimmers will compete to earn one of many coveted 16 spots in Friday’s finals — 4 heats of eight for particular person occasions, three heats of eight for relays. Area qualifiers so as of occasions are as follows:

200 Medley Relay: Ontario (Mirielle Trumpower, Joie Simmering, Sasha Bulakovski, Tessa Crum), seeded fifth, 1:48.66; Colonel Crawford (Brynn Bruner, Sophia Keller, Meadow Foust, Ava Finnan), twelfth, 1:51.58 // Ontario (Colten Montgomery, Carson Smith, Grantham Trumpower, Owen Walter), 1st, 1:34.48

200 Freestyle: Lexington’s Kayla Caldwell, twenty second, 1:58.30

200 IM: Colonel Crawford’s Brynn Bruner, twenty fourth, 2:16.63; Colonel Crawford’s Sophia Keller, twenty eighth, 2:17.42 // Lexington’s Cooper Watters, sixth, 1:56.26; Ontario’s Carson Smith, eighth, 1:57.44; Ontario’s Jackson Swiatek, twentieth, 2:00.07; Ontario’s Connor Robinson, thirtieth, 2:02.57

50 Freestyle: Clear Fork’s Estella Gandee, thirteenth, 24.59; Ontario’s Tessa Crum, 14th, 24.63; Ontario’s Sasha Bulakovski, thirty second, 25.47 // Ontario’s Grantham Trumpower, 2rd, 20.61; Loudonville’s Cooper Sage, 14th, 21.91

100 Butterfly: Ontario’s Mirielle Trumpower, 1st, 54.96; Colonel Crawford’s Meadow Foust, twenty fifth, 1:01.14 // Ontario’s Colten Montgomery, ninth, 51.96

100 Freestyle: Ontario’s Tessa Crum, twenty first, 54.74 // Ontario’s Grantham Trumpower, third, 45.79; Ontario’s Owen Walter, 14th, 47.85; Loudonville’s Cooper Sage, twenty fifth, 48.70

500 Freestyle: Lexington’s Kayla Caldwell, thirteenth, 5:20.02; Ontario’s Joie Simmering, twenty seventh, 5:34.19; Colonel Crawford’s Meadow Foust, twenty eighth, 5:34.80; Colonel Crawford’s Evy Grau, thirty first, 5:35.84 // Lexington’s Cooper Watters, eighth, 4:47.03; Ontario’s Jack Rietschlin, 14th, 4:53.24

200 Free Relay: Ontario (Saha Bulakovski, Joie Simmering, Ava Zehe, Tessa Crum), seventh, 1:41.08; Colonel Crawford (Sophia keller, Evy Grau, Sydney Link, Riley Finnan), twenty second, 1:43.39 // Ontario (Owen Walter, Carson Smith, Colten Montgomery, Grantham Trumpower), 1st, 1:26.21; Lexington (Kenny Konves, Peyton McFadden, Owen Garver, Cooper Watters), 18th, 1:31.73

100 Backstroke: Ontario’s Mirielle Trumpower, 2nd, 56.19; Colonel Crawford’s Brynn Bruner, twenty first, 1:00.73 // Ontario’s Colten Montgomery, 4th, 51.18; Ontario’s Jackson Swiatek, thirteenth, 53.74; Ontario’s Jack Rietschlin, fifteenth, 54.25

100 Breaststroke: Colonel Crawford’s Sophia Keller, ninth, 1:06.62 // Ontario’s Carson Smith, eighth, 58.65; Ontario’s Connor Robinson, thirteenth, 59.55

400 Free Relay: Ontario (Zoey Shaffer, Lily Secrist, Ava Zehe, Mirielle Trumpower), eighth, 3:40.11; Colonel Crawford (Brynn Bruner, Meadow Foust, Riley Finnan, Ava Finnan), fifteenth, 3:45.44; Lexington (Gabi Twedt, Maggie Nolan, Kayla Caldwell, Emily Woods), twenty second, 3:50.25 // Ontario (Owen Walter, Connor Robinson, Jack Rietschlin, Jackson Swiatek), fifth, 3:14.82; Lexington (Kenny Konves, Owen Garver, Peyton McFadden, Cooper Watters), twenty first, 3:23.50

Friday, Feb. 27 — Division II finals

Finals will start at 5 p.m. in the identical order as Thursday’s preliminaries with two heats in every race deciding champions, podium, and All-Ohio honors. Swimming ought to wrap up round 9 p.m.

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