Grizzlies,
Congrats to our 6 boys at the State Tournament tonight: Joey Duquette, Logan Edge, Henry Rhein, Karl Rhein, Alex Holleran, and Nathan Joseph!
The boys swam incredibly well from the beginning to the end of the meet, as they each had at least one personal best time! We even set another team record at the end of the night! The boys 200 Medley Relay team of Joey Duquette, Alex Holleran, Logan Edge, and Henry Rhein swam a 1:48.47, dropping 1.33 seconds off their seed time (not easy to do since all our swimmers pushed all season to get best split times to put in for these relay qualifications). The boys moved up from their 17th place seed position to a 16th place Prelim position, qualifying them for finals on Saturday!!
Joey Duquette swam a personal best time in the 200 IM, dropping 2 seconds down to a 1:58.21 and moving from a 7th place seed position to a 5th place Prelim position. This swim moves Joey from 3rd to 2nd on the All-Time Top 16 List for the 200 IM.
Logan Edge swam a personal best time in the 200 IM, dropping 9 seconds down to a 2:02.78 and moving from an 18th place seed position to a 9th place Prelim position! This swim moves Logan from 5th to 4th on the All-Time Top 16 List for the 200 IM.
Karl Rhein swam a 24.32 in the 50 Freestyle to place 32nd. Karl dropped 0.89 seconds off his best time and moves from 10th to 5th on the All-Time Top 16 List for the 50 Freestyle!
Henry Rhein swam a 24.94 in the 50 Freestyle to place 49th.Logan Edge swam a personal best time in the 100 Butterfly, dropping 4 seconds down to a 52.82 and moving from a 10th place seed position to a 6th place Prelims position! Logan moves from 3rd to 2nd on the All-Time Top 16 List for the 100 Butterfly! Logan is only 5.55 seconds off the State Record in this event!
There was a scratch in the 200 Freestyle Relay, so our boys team that was ranked 25th (for 2 straight years) got to swim this event. We moved Nathan Joseph (who was listed in this relay) out of the stands and into the pool, and the team of Henry Rhein, Alex Holleran, Nathan Joseph, and Karl Rhein swam a time of 1:42.52, dropping one second off their seed time and placing 24th in this event (faster than 16 other high schools)!
Joey Duquette swam a personal best time in the 100 Backstroke, dropping a second down to a 51.52 and moving from a 2nd place seed position to a 1st place Prelim position! Joey is ranked 2nd on the All-Time Top 16 List for this event, but he is only 0.70 seconds off the team record and 3.28 seconds off the State Record for this event!
Karl Rhein swam a personal best time in the 100 Backstroke, dropping 1.5 seconds down to a 1:03.30 and moving from a 39th place seed position to place 32nd! Karl is currently ranked 8th on the All-Time Top 16 List for the 100 Backstroke.
The boys 400 Freestyle Relay team of Henry Rhein, Karl Rhein, Logan Edge, and Joey Duquette swam a 3:34.74, dropping 4 seconds off their seed time and moving up from their 15th place seed position to a 13th place Prelim position! This swim broke the final remaining old relay record on the books by 0.18 seconds! (The old record was set on 2/27/2015 by the team of Jared Henke, Nathan Rose, Nathan Hunter, and Jake Johnson.)
Congratulations go out to Joey Duquette for being presented with an Academic Student Athlete Award at the Tournament!!
We had one personal best relay leadoff and a ton of personal best split times at this meet. Henry Rhein swam a personal best 50 Freestyle time of 24.80 as the 200 Freestyle Relay leadoff. Henry is currently ranked 7th on the All-Time Top 16 List for the 50 Freestyle. Joey Duquette dropped 0.58 seconds off his best 50 Backstroke split time (25.14). Logan Edge dropped 1.16 seconds off his best 50 Butterfly split time (24.07). Henry Rhein dropped 0.15 seconds off his best 50 Freestyle split time (24.12). Alex Holleran dropped 0.48 seconds off his best 50 Freestyle split time (26.73). Nathan Joseph dropped 0.59 seconds off his best 50 Freestyle split time (26.80). Karl Rhein dropped 0.37 seconds off his best 50 Freestyle split time (24.01). Karl Rhein dropped 1.5 seconds off his best 100 Freestyle split time (56.89). Logan Edge dropped 2 seconds off his best 100 Freestyle split time (50.89). Joey Duquette dropped 0.18 seconds off his best 100 Freestyle split (49.75). Thanks to our many supporters in the stands cheering on the team and taking pictures: Summer Edge, Amanda Edge, Olivia Edge, Ethan Edge, Dorie Duquette, Gerry Duquette, Kathy Ann Joseph, David Holleran, Stacy Holleran, Maggie Magargee, Jacob Rainbow, Kate Rainbow, Victor Rhein, Caroline Roff, Anna Marks, and Aidan Morris (and certainly some others we did not see)!
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