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Rochester’s Bode, Valley’s Craig, Smith, Pioneer’s E. Chan, C. Chan qualify for individual sectional finals
BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS
Sports Editor, RTC
Rochester junior Maddy Brouyette scored 287.65 points and finished third in a field of 12 divers at the Warsaw sectional Saturday.
By virtue of her third-place finish, she qualified for the girls diving regional at Valparaiso High School Tuesday. Start time is 6 p.m. Eastern.
The top four divers at the sectional qualify for the diving regional. The top eight at the diving regional qualify for the IHSAA state finals. Diving at the state finals begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis.
Brouyette was one of three Rochester divers who competed. All three were competing in their first sectional. Kendyll Bradley was seventh with 244.45 points, and Ava Thomas was ninth with 208.75 points.
Among other area divers, Tippecanoe Valley juniors Ella Myers and Lydia Miller finished fifth and sixth, respectively. Myers finished 1.95 points behind Plymouth’s Madi Hauptmann for the final regional spot.
Pioneer’s Lane Hood and Gracie Helm finished 11th and 12th, respectively. Hood is a sophomore, and Clem is a freshman.
Culver Academy’s Claire Feick won the title with 475.05 points
Swimming preliminaries
Pioneer sophomore Chloe Chan qualified second in the 100 breaststroke at the Warsaw sectional preliminaries Saturday and has the best performance in the preliminaries by ranking of any RTC area swimmer.
Columbia City’s Emma Johnson was the top qualifier in 1:11.81 while Chan qualified in 1:13.89.
The sectional champion, plus those who meet a difficult state qualifying time, receive an automatic berth to the state finals, which begin at 6 p.m. Friday. The state qualifying time in the breaststroke is 1:05.63.
Two area swimmers qualified for the finals in multiple events – Rochester senior Elena Bode and Valley sophomore Kendall Craig.
Bode qualified sixth in the 100 freestyle in 59.11 seconds and fifth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:16.61. Bode will also swim in the finals of both the 200 medley and 200 freestyle relays.
Molly Vance-Gruss, Bella Riffle and Kendyll Bradley will join her in the 200 medley relay, and Bradley, Riffle and Melody Hisey will join her in the 200 freestyle relay.
Rochester’s 400 freestyle relay, which consists of Hisey, Lola Brady, Araceli Ochoa and Molly Vance-Gruss, also qualified for the finals.
Craig qualified eighth in the 200 freestyle in 2:14.74 and seventh in the 500 freestyle in 6:03.66. She also will join Olivia Wilson, Maddie Woodward and Makena Smith in the 400 freestyle relay, which qualified for the finals.
Smith, a junior, also qualified eighth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:19.68. It marks the second straight year she has qualified for the finals in the breaststroke. She qualified for the consolation round in the breaststroke in 2020.
In addition to Chloe Chan, the other Pioneer swimmer to reach a final was senior Emily Chan, who qualified eighth in the 100 freestyle in 1:00.77.
Pioneer’s 400 freestyle relay team also advanced to the finals. That team consists of Mackenzie Robinson, Anna Shewalter, Emily Chan and Chloe Chan.
The sectional preliminaries were postponed from Thursday to Friday and again from Friday to Saturday afternoon due to inclement weather.
The finals were postponed from Saturday afternoon to Monday night.
Warsaw is the defending sectional champion and has won the sectional four of the last five years.
WARSAW GIRLS SWIMMING SECTIONAL PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Top qualifiers plus all Rochester, Tippecanoe Valley, Pioneer and Culver results
200 MEDLEY RELAY
1. Plymouth (Keirn, South, Houin, Weiss) – 1:58.94, 7. Rochester (Molly Vance-Gruss, Elena Bode, Bella Riffle, Kendyll Bradley) – 2:09.50 (finals), 9. Pioneer (Mackenzie Robinson, Chloe Chan, Emily Chan, Anna Shewalter) – 2:11.63, 10. Valley (Olivia Wilson, Alejandra Jimenez, Makena Smith, Kendall Craig) – 2:18.26
200 freestyle
1. Baber (Lewis Cass) – 1:58.62, 8. Kendall Craig (TV) – 2:14.74 (finals), 14. Molly Vance-Gruss (RHS) – 2:27.85 (consolation), 16. Adeline Cripe (PIO) – 2:33.93 (consolation), 17. Mackenzie Robinson (PIO) – 2:34.55 (alternate), 20. Ella Myers (TV) – 2:38.37, 24. Araceli Ochoa (RHS) – 2:47.93, 25. Ava Thomas (RHS) – 2:47.96, 27. Katelyn Stump (TV) – 2:53.94, 29. Chloe Rogers (PIO) – 3:16.73
200 individual medley
1. Briner (Manchester) – 2:19.98, 9. Makena Smith (TV) – 2:40.61 (consolation), 10. Emily Chan (PIO) – 2:41.24 (consolation), 13. Bella Riffle (RHS) – 2:48.49 (consolation), 18. Lola Brady (RHS) – 2:59.49 (alternate), 20. Arwen Kornblith (CUL) – 3:10.60, 22. Nicole Quaglio (PIO) – 3:17.55
50 freestyle
1. Marcuccilli (Warsaw) – 26.23 seconds, 9. Chloe Chan (PIO) – 27.58 (consolation), 12. Madilyn Calloway (RHS) – 28.14 (consolation), 15. Kendyll Bradley (RHS) – 28.28, 24. Maddie Woodward (TV) – 30.40, 26. Anna Shewalter (PIO) – 30.54, 27. Alejandra Jimenez (TV) – 31.64, 29. Greta Barbieri (RHS) – 32.45, 31. Lydia Miller (TV) – 33.66, 35. Rileigh Schmaltz (PIO) – 55.53
100 butterfly
1. Briner (Manchester) – 1:01.86, 9. Bella Riffle (RHS) – 1:14.35 (consolation)
100 freestyle
1. Teglia (CGA) – 56.86 seconds, 6. Elena Bode (RHS) – 59.11 (finals), 8. Emily Chan (PIO) – 1:00.77 (finals), 11. Melody Hisey (RHS) – 1:02.12 (consolation), 20. Olivia Wilson (TV) – 1:08.99, 22. Lane Hood (PIO) – 1:11.53, 23. Lola Brady (RHS) – 1:11.70, 28. Katelyn Stump (TV) – 1:17.39, 30. Emma Elliott (PIO) – 1:19.60
500 freestyle
1. Baber (Lewis Cass) – 5:24.70, 7. Kendall Craig (TV) – 6:03.66 (finals), 13. Madilyn Calloway (RHS) – 6:54.62 (consolation), 16. Adeline Cripe (PIO) – 7:02.53 (consolation), 18. Maddie Woodward (TV) – 7:11.21 (alternate)
200 freestyle relay
1. Lewis Cass (Zeck, Garland, Miller, Baber) – 1:46.65, 4. Rochester (Kendyll Bradley, Bella Riffle, Melody Hisey, Elena Bode) – 1:53.38 (finals), 9. Pioneer (Adeline Cripe, Lane Hood, Ayla Depoy, Anna Shewalter) – 2:06.05 (consolation), 10. Valley (Alejandra Jimenez, Lydia Miller, Ella Myers, Maddie Woodward) – 2:07.31 (consolation)
100 backstroke
1. Doyle (Warsaw) – 1:03.99, 11. Molly Vance-Gruss (RHS) – 1:16.13 (consolation), 13. Olivia Wilson (TV) – 1:17.54 (consolation), 15. Melody Hisey (RHS) – 1:19.45 (consolation), 16. Mackenzie Robinson (PIO) – 1:19.73 (consolation), 19. Kamryn Newby (PIO) – 1:23.23, 23. Ayla Depoy (PIO) – 1:29.11, 24. Araceli Ochoa (RHS) – 1:43.70
100 breaststroke
1. Johnson (Columbia City) – 1:11.81, 2. Chloe Chan (PIO) – 1:13.89 (finals), 5. Elena Bode (RHS) – 1:16.61 (finals), 8. Makena Smith (TV) – 1:19.68 (finals), 18. Greta Barbieri (RHS) – 1:30.33 (alternate), 22. Alejandra Jimenez (TV) – 1:35.45, 23. Arwen Kornblith (CUL) – 1:37.11, 24. Carmen Limones Fornes (PIO) – 1:42.45
400 freestyle relay
1. Culver Academy (Curtis, Shafeek-Horton, Zhang, Heim) – 3:54.35, 4. Pioneer (Mackenzie Robinson, Anna Shewalter, Emily Chan, Chloe Chan) – 4:25.09 (finals), 5. Valley (Kendall Craig, Olivia Wilson, Maddie Woodward, Makena Smith) – 4:34.81 (finals), 8. Rochester (Melody Hisey, Lola Brady, Araceli Ochoa, Molly Vance-Gruss) – 4:41.20 (finals)
