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Guest contribution by Jayme Cramer
BATON ROUGE – The final preparations for the Louisiana High School championships were being held at various cities throughout the state this past weekend and this coming weekend. Metros for all of the New Orleans schools were swum on October 31 and November 1, and the Capitol City Swim League Championships for Baton Rouge were held at Crawfish Aquatics on Saturday, November 1 with finals on Sunday, November 2 in the early afternoon. There were tons of fast times highlighted by two individual and two relay meet records.
Colin Bone of Catholic High School, who swims for Crawfish Aquatics, broke former Brazilian Olympian and Stanford swimmer Phillip Morrison’s 200 freestyle record that was set in 2003. The record was 1:40.44 and Bone swam the race in a near best time of 1:39.46. Bone is the overall state record holder with a time of 1:38.55 set at last year’s division 1 state championships. Bone finished strongly splitting the race 23.50-25.68-25.43-24.85. He would later come back and break the oldest record in the books, the 100 freestyle set back in 1981 by Brian Zielinski a Florida All-American, going 46.27 to be the 46.70 set 23 years ago. Bone was also apart of the Catholic High School 400 freestyle relay record going 3:12.67 breaking the record from 2005 which was a 3:15.43.
The girls meet featured one relay record and it was also in the 400 freestyle relay where the girls from St. Joseph’s Academy went 3:34.88 to break the record that they set in 2013 by .08. The team was made up of Caroline Beene, Jeanne Frederic, Bethany Seagraves and Clayton Black. In the girls individual events, Clayton Black and Amy Miller of Saint Joseph’s both barely missed setting meet marks. Black won the 200 freestyle going a swift 1:51.63 missing former NCAA Champion and Record Holder in the 200 fly Shelly Ripple’s record by .40. She would come back and again miss the record of 5:01.92 going a 5:03.38. Both were lifetime best swims. Amy Miller not only won the 100 freestyle in a personal best of 52.10 to upset last year’s winner Caroline Beene, but was just a hair (.3) off the 100 breaststroke record finishing in 1:05.55.
Catholic High School for the boys and Saint Joseph’s Academy for the girls were the champions for the 25th and 15th years, respectively. They produced all of the winners in the races except for three individual races. Those victories came from a boy and girl from The Dunham School. Olivia Huffman won the 100 backstroke in 1:00.43. Kirkland Mawae (a Wingate University commit) pulled off a double in back to back races winning the 100 backstroke in 52.81 and the 100 breaststroke 1:01.88. Both were personal bests.
Other winners are on the day were as follows. Saint Joseph’s Academy’s Jeanne Frederic won the 200 IM (2:13.01) and the 100 Fly (58.38) and Caroline Beene won the 50 freestyle (24.13). Catholic High School’s Connor Futch won the 200 IM (2:00.69) just out touching his teammate Braden Nyboer by .07. Nyboer would come back and easily win the 500 freestyle (4:52.21) by 11 seconds. Brady Grenfell was the final double winner finishing first in both the 50 freestyle (22.26) and 100 fly (53.08.)
The state championships for Louisiana will be held from November 19-22 in Sulphur, Louisiana. Division 4 and Division 3 will be that Wednesday and Thursday and Division 2 and Division 1 will be that Friday and Saturday.
Jayme Cramer is the head coach of Crawfish Aquatics, and was part of the U.S. world championship 800 free relay at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships.
Results: Capitol City Swim League Championships