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The 2023 Kentucky State Swimming and Diving Championships were held Feb. 16-18 at the Lancaster Aquatic Center on the University of Kentucky’s campus in Lexington, Ky.
Sacred Heart Academy won the girls meet for the 10th-straight year and 34th time overall. On the boys side, St. Xavier captured its 59th team title. Seven total state records fell during the championship meet.
GIRLS MEET
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Top 5 Team Scores:
1. Sacred Heart Academy – 340.5
2. Lexington Catholic – 202
3. Notre Dame Academy – 196
4. Elizabethtown – 140
5. Paul Laurence Dunbar – 135
State Champions:
- 200 medley relay – Sacred Heart (1:42.25)
- 200 free – Notre Dame’s Lainy Kruger (1:46.36)
- 200 IM – Sacred Heart’s Haley McDonald (1:59.89)
- 50 free – West Jessamine’s Lily Delong (23.43)
- 1-meter diving – Madison Southern’s Reagan Patterson (512.50) *State Record*
- 100 fly – Sacred Heart’s Charlotte Crush (51.56) [51.55 in prelims] *State Record*
- 100 free – West Jessamine’s Lily Delong (51.35)
- 500 free – Sacred Heart’s Haley McDonald (4:53.11)
- 200 free – Sacred Heart (1:37.02)
- 100 back – Sacred Heart’s Charlotte Crush (51.14) *State Record*
- 100 breast – Notre Dame’s Lainy Kruger (1:02.30)
- 400 free relay – Sacred Heart (3:25.39)
BOYS MEET
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Top 5 Team Scores:
1. St. Xavier – 513
2. Paul Laurence Dunbar – 232
3. Ryle – 152
4. Henry Clay – 147
5. Trinity – 106
State Champions:
- 200 medley relay – Paul Laurence Dunbar (1:33.59)
- 200 free – St. Xavier’s Alex Thiesing (1:37.05)
- 200 IM – St. Xavier’s Will Scholtz (1:45.89) *State Record*
- 50 free – Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Seneca Oddo (20.14)
- 1-meter diving – Lexington Catholic’s Michael Buchart III (519.50)
- 100 fly – St. Xavier’s Thomas Mercer (48.48)
- 100 free – St. Xavier’s Johnny Crush (43.89)
- 500 free – St. Xavier’s Jack Augustus (4:32.20)
- 200 free relay – St. Xavier (1:22.94)
- 100 back – St. Xavier’s Johnny Crush (46.55) *State Record*
- 100 breast – Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Alex Ochsenbein (53.75) *State Record*
- 400 free relay – St. Xavier (2:57.50) *State Record*
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