Lewisburg competes on first day of PIAA Class AA swimming championships | Information, Sports activities, Jobs

RALPH WILSON/Sun-Gazette Correspondent
Lewisburg’s Morgan Shannon checks her time after competing within the ladies 100 free in the course of the District 4 championships. Shannon and teammate Emma Hopkinson competed individually on Friday on the primary day of Class AA competitors on the state meet at Bucknell whereas brother Colin Shannon competed on the boys aspect.

LEWISBURG — After profitable two District 4 gold medals as a freshman, Lewisburg standout Morgan Shannon discovered herself competing on the primary day of Class AA competitors on the PIAA swimming championships at Bucknell on Friday.

The freshman Green Dragon completed the 200 free with a prelim time of 1:57.71, dropping simply greater than two seconds off her seeded time and reaching the B finals because of a Thirteenth-place end within the morning competitors.

Morgan’s brother Colin Shannon, a sophomore, reached the B finals within the 200 free. The Green Dragon shaved roughly one-and-a-half seconds off his seeded time and swam a 1:47.03 to take Thirteenth within the morning competitors. He was Lewisburg’s solely state qualifier this yr. In the B finals, Colin Shannon swam a time of 1:46.87 to take fifteenth.

Lewisburg senior Emma Hopkinson competed on the state meet for the ultimate time in her profession on Friday. Hopkinson competed within the 100 fly and completed nineteenth within the preliminaries with a time of 1:01.01 after coming into with a seeded time of 1:00.50. She simply missed out on the B finals by slightly below a second.

Lewisburg’s ladies 200 medley relay workforce completed sixteenth within the preliminaries with a time of 1:53.79. That relay workforce consisted of Jillian Muchler, Claire Graver, Hopkinson and Shannon.

The PIAA Class AA swimming championships resume on Saturday for the fourth and remaining day of competitors.