Mount Ethereal’s girls and boys’ swim groups each completed as Northwest 1A Convention Runner-Up at Thursday’s Championship meet.
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PILOT MOUNTAIN — Very like the Foothills 2A Convention Championship the night time earlier than, the Northwest 1A Convention Swimming Championship was dominated by Surry County athletes.
Thursday’s championship meet, held on the Armfield Civic Middle, featured Mount Ethereal, Elkin, Starmount, Alleghany and East Wilkes. South Stokes and North Stokes didn’t ship representatives for the boys or women competitors.
The Buckin’ Elks of Elkin Excessive Faculty received each group championships, whereas each of Mount Ethereal’s swim groups completed the convention event as NW1A Convention Runners-Up.
Elkin’s Diana McCulloch was named Ladies Coach of the 12 months, and the Buckin’ Elks’ Sophie Welborn was named Feminine Swimmer of the 12 months. For the boys, Mount Ethereal’s Jay Williams was named Coach of the 12 months.
Starmount’s Peyton Ponce de Leon was named Male Swimmer of the 12 months.
Ladies outcomes
1. Elkin Buckin’ Elks 145
2. Mount Ethereal Granite Bears 82
3. Starmount Rams 79
4. East Wilkes Cardinals 61
5. Alleghany Trojans 40
Elkin’s women ran away with the convention meet by profitable 10-of-11 occasions.
The Buckin’ Elks entered the Northwest 1A Convention with an intimidating resume. Elkin’s women completed the 2020-21 season as runners-up within the N.C. Excessive Faculty Athletic Affiliation 1A/2A State Championship, and the relay group of Sophie Welborn, Morgan Wiles, Mattie Wells and Amelia Presley captured one state championship and two silver medals.
Welborn, who was named NW1A Feminine Swimmer of the 12 months, received 4 gold medals on the convention championship. Individually, Welborn took house the convention titles within the 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke. She teamed with Wiles, Presley and Bronwyn Sloop to win the 400 freestyle relay, then received the 200 freestyle relay with Wells, Sloop and Presley Baker.
The only real race not received by Elkin was the 100 breaststroke. East Wilkes’ Sedessa Hatcher received the race with a time of 1:12.50, which was simply .37 seconds quicker than the silver medalist. Elkin’s Wells completed second with a time of 1:12.87, adopted by Mount Ethereal’s Jessica Sawyers at 1:16.89.
Sawyers completed within the prime three of all 4 of her occasions on the convention championship. Individually, the Granite Bear completed second within the 100 freestyle at 58.12 seconds and was third within the 100 backstroke.
Sawyers was a part of a relay group that earned two silver medals. The squad of Sawyers, Laura Livengood, Eleanor Edwards and Emma Bowman completed the 200 medley relay in 2:23.63 and accomplished the 400 freestyle relay in 4:34.20.
Bowman, like Sawyers, had 4 top-3 finishes. Along with the 2 relays, Bowman took second within the 50 freestyle with a time of 30.07 seconds, and completed third within the 100 freestyle at 1:09.63.
Livengood and Edwards every had a third-place end to go along with their two silver relay medals. Edwards completed third within the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:25.86, and Livengood took third within the 200 freestyle with a time of two:47.61.
Boys outcomes
1. Elkin Buckin’ Elks 176
2. Mount Ethereal Granite Bears 141
3. Starmount Rams 62
4. Alleghany Trojans 19
The boys competitors was dominated by Elkin and Mount Ethereal.
Though the Elkin boys didn’t end as excessive as the ladies did within the 2021 1A/2A State Championship, the Buckin’ Elks nonetheless had the very best end of any conventional 1A faculty at sixth.
Elkin received 6-of-11 occasions on the NW1A Championship. Starmount and Mount Ethereal every received two, and Alleghany received one.
Starmount’s Peyton Ponce de Leon, the NW1A Male Swimmer of the 12 months, had each of the Rams’ wins and helped the varsity end third in two relay races. Individually, Ponce de Leon completed first within the 100 and 200 freestyles. He teamed with Ashton Hartzog, Kendall Dickerson and Ryan King in each the 200 and 400 freestyle relays.
Mount Ethereal had a top-3 end in 8-of-11 occasions. Junior Matheson Williams had each of the Bears’ victories, doing so within the 500 freestyle and 100 backstroke. Williams received the five hundred freestyle with a time of 5:24.53 and the 100 backstroke 58.04 seconds.
Williams was a part of two relay groups that completed in second place. He teamed with Noah Moore, Collin Phillips and Hayden Bender to complete the 200 medley relay in 2:09.69, and teamed with Moore, Peter Cooke and Martin Cooke to finish the 400 freestyle relay in 3:45.94.
Two different Mount Ethereal relay groups completed within the prime three of the boys competitors. Bender, Phillips, Peter Cooke and Martin Cooke completed second within the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:48.54; Noah Khuri, Nolan Haynes, Isaac Griffith and Luke Golding completed third within the 200 medley relay with a time of two:38.93.
Martin Cooke added two top-3 finishes for Mount Ethereal. He completed second within the 200 freestyle at 2:02.35, and third within the 100 backstroke at 1:02.17.
Moore, Khuri and Peter Cooke rounded out Mount Ethereal’s podium finishes with one third-place end every: Moore within the 200 particular person medley with a time of three:00.07, Khuri within the 500 freestyle at 7:39.77, and Peter Cooke within the 50 freestyle at 26.26 seconds.
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