Local Prep Swimmers Host Home Meet; Honor Senior Swimmers

The Coffee County CHS, Coffee County Middle School and Westwood Middle School swim teams hosted their final home meet of the year on Friday night.  The high school team honored the senior members of the swim team in a pre-meet ceremony.  Seniors Anna O’Connor, Jack Beachboard, Emelia Walker, Ali Marlow and Haley Richardson were presented gifts by young members of the Manchester Makos.

In team scoring, the high school team went 3 and 1(combined) getting wins over Warren County and a pair of home school teams before losing to Sewanee as both boys’ and girls’ teams had identical 3 and 1 records.   In the team relays, both the boys’ and girls’ 200 medley relay teams finished in 2^nd place.  The boys’ 200 freestyle relay team captured 2^nd place and the girls’ 400 freestyle relay team came in 2^nd place.

Individual race winners for Coffee County were: Kaylee Williams in the 100 backstroke(with a time of 1:12.02), the 100 breaststroke(1:12.02) and 100 butterfly(1:07.96); Jack Beachboard in the 100 backstroke(58.71), the 100 butterfly(56.58);

Individual winners for the Westwood swim team were: Nick Bogle in the 50 freestyle(25.3)and 200 IM(2:22.02); Abby Gilday in the 200 freestyle(2:35.87);

For Coffee Middle, the 200 Medley relay team was 1^st in their heat as Emily Williams, Taylor Wall, Clancey Sand and Elli Masters swam the race in 2:24.02 which was less than a second behind the Sewanee high school squad which had the low time.  The same foursome also finished in 2^nd place in the 400 freestyle relay.  Individual winners for the Coffee County Middle School swim team were: Emily Williams in the 500 freestyle(6:17.33) and 100 butterfly(1:16.63);

Friday’s meet was the last of the calendar year for the prep racers.  The high school team will compete in Sewanee in January before the region and state meets.  The middle school swimmers will next be in action in the region meet set for late January in Nashville.