The Summit High School girls swim and dive team is striving to chase after personal goals this season. After qualifying three relays and six individuals to the 4A state swim meet last season, head coach.
The Summit Tigers swim team wasted no time in qualifying multiple girls to state along with three relays as the team competed in its first two swim meets of the season at the Glenwood Springs.
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Summit High swimmers junior Abby Anderson, from left, senior Taylor Lee, junior Marin Ward and sophomore Pelham Wagenseil pose for a photo before racing in the 400-yard freestyle relay at the 3A State Championship at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton on Tuesday, March 16.
Photo from Jenny Wischmeyer
It came after multiple postponements and a COVID-19 quarantine for two team members, but the Summit High School swim and dive team was excited to finish its season Tuesday, March 16, at the state meet in Thornton.
Swimming at the Veterans Memorial Aquatics Center, Tigers senior Taylor Lee and junior Abby Anderson led the Tigers in the 400-yard freestyle relay at Tuesday’s 3A state championships. The event, originally slated for Saturday, March 13, was postponed three times due to last weekend’s winter weather on the Front Range.
The Summit High School 400-yard freestyle relay team qualified to swim at Saturday’s 3A state championships.
Senior Taylor Lee, junior Abby Anderson and freshmen Ashley Leidel and Karlyn Frazier will swim at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton after swimming a season-best time of 4 minutes and 10.61 seconds in the 400-yard freestyle relay at Saturday’s regional Southwest Conference Championship meet at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction.
Tigers head coach Jenny Wischmeyer said the state qualification “means even more this year since it was so hard to get in.” Like other high school sports, fewer swimmers, divers and relay teams are invited to Saturday’s state meet due to COVID-19 restrictions. This year, 20 relay teams were invited to state. Traditionally, state qualification is predicated on meeting a certain time. This is the seventh time in the coach’s two decades leading the program that Summit has qualified to state.