All five new Colorado state records from yesterday’s prelim swims tumbled. The 100Y Freestyle, which was won by Jordan Mattern, who set a new 5A record yesterday, is the only individual state record that wasn’t broken.The 200Y Freestyle Relay record from 2005 also remains intact.
For the sixth consecutive year, Creek captured the 5A championships with sophomore Bonnie Brandon taking two events – the 200Y IM and 500Y Freestyle – Mattern winning the 200Y Freestyle and 100Y Freestyle – and sophomore Kelly Naze victorious in her two events – the 100Y Butterfly and 100Y Breaststroke. That left Franklin with the two remaining individual events – the 50Y Freestyle and 100Y Backstroke.
Creek also swept all three relays including a heartbreakingly close 400Y Freestyle Relay in which Regis Jesuit was out in front the entire race until the last few yards when Creek’s Kelly Naze out-touched Regis Jesuit’s Hillary Thomas by .05. In that same race, Franklin set a new National Independent High School Record with her incredible lead-off swim of 48.39.
Your 5A Top 10 Teams and scores were as follows:
1) Cherry Creek, 399
2)
Regis Jesuit, 322
3)
Fairview, 271
4)
Heritage, 148
5)
Rampart, 126
6)
Arapahoe, 116
7)
Monarch, 110
8)
Boulder, 106
9)
Smoky Hill, 103
10)
Ralston Valley, 82
Check back tomorrow for full top-16 results from each event from the 5A championships as well as a list of special awards.
Meanwhile, a shout out to Pueblo South freshman Mary Saiz,
who became the first state champ ever from the Pueblo area with her win at the
4A Championships in the 100Y Backstroke in a time of a 58.83.
