Women Swimming and Diving: Spherical-up of meet between Alexandria and St. Cloud Tech – Alexandria Echo Press

During the Thursday, Sept. 18, meet in opposition to St. Cloud Tech, the Alexandria Cardinals fell in an in depth one. The Tigers got here out on prime with a rating of 95-90.

Head Coach Mark Storhaug stated the Tigers allowed the Cards simply two wins – Brynnley Zeithamer within the 100-yard freestyle and Maria Mayer within the 100-yard breaststroke.

“Tech only outscored the Cards in five of 12 events as the Redbirds tied St. Cloud in three races and outscored the Tigers in four,” stated Storhaug. “That left the last relay as the determining factor in the outcome of the meet. And, Alexandria fell short of the team victory by a body length.”

Storhaug famous although that the Cards proceed to enhance as they posted 15 season finest performances — two every from Zeithamer, Ning Zhang and Allison Khaghany. There had been a number of bigger enhancements that had been seen from Allison Boe, who shaved 2.4 seconds within the 200-yard freestyle; Lucy Kieffer reducing 5 seconds within the 500-yard freestyle; Ashley Luebben taking 5 seconds off of her finest within the 500-yard freestyle; Alice Novotny slicing 1.4 seconds within the 100-yard backstroke; Mae Denne reducing 1.1 seconds within the 100-yeard fly; Ava Love carving off 3.4 seconds within the 500-yard freestyles; Maria Mayer lowered her finest within the 100-yard breaststroke by 1.0 second; and Eleigh Meier raised her season finest diving whole by 7 factors.

The JV staff, nonetheless, beat St. Cloud tech by a rating of 72-37.

Storhaug famous that many occasions went uncontested because the small numbers within the Tech lineup didn’t allow them to area entries in seven of 12 occasions. A noteworthy enchancment within the 100-yard breaststroke, he added, was seen by Kate Tollefson, as she bettered her earlier finest by 1 second.

Celeste Edenloff is the particular initiatives editor and a reporter for the Alexandria Echo Press. She has lived within the Alexandria Lakes Area since 1997. She first labored for the Echo Press as a reporter from 1999 to 2011, and returned in 2016 to as soon as once more report on the neighborhood she calls dwelling.