The Lady Cubs competed Saturday, February 3rd, at Floyd Central in the 2018 Girls Sectional Championship meet. Despite battling a season full of illness, relocations, and season-ending injuries, our final seven swimmers, all young, made a good showing finishing the weekend in 12th place overall.  

“We are very excited about what next year will hold for our team.  We are graduating one senior and expect everyone else to return.  This group of young ladies is so very capable of competing at a higher level.  We just need to work on keeping everyone healthy and continue to ramp up offseason conditioning and pool time,” said MCHS swim coach Ashley Schutte.

MCHS junior and first-time high school swimmer Hope Miller said, “Getting back into the pool was tough for sure, considering it had been a while and I was not used to that type of conditioning, but the coaches and the team made this season really fun.”

After Thursday’s prelim meet we had two relay entries and one individual qualify to move through to the finals on Saturday.  Prelim results:

200 Medley Relay

8th – Anne Grady, Lucy Lynch, Beth Mahoney, and Tindra Cederved – 2:17.41 (to Finals at 8 seed)

200 Free

19th – Katie Royce – 2:25.65

28th – Kendall-Brooke Sedam – 2:50.19

200 IM

21st Anne Grady – 2:53.42

50 Free

22nd – Beth Mahoney – 29.83

24th – Lucy Lynch – 30.46

Tindra Cederved – DQ

100 Free

18th – Beth Mahoney – 1:05.22 (Alternate)

35th – Vanina Kelsey – 1:21.78

500 Free

18th – Katie Royce – 6:40.54 (Alternate)

200 Free Relay

11th – Tindra Cederved, Anne Grady, Lucy Lynch, and Beth Mahoney – 2:02.66

100 Back

16th – Lucy Lynch – 1:18.10 (Personal Best Time from 1:22.26 – to Consoles with a 16 seed)

20th – Tindra Cederved – 1:19.03

34th – Vanina Kelsey – 1:31.60

100 Breast

21st – Anne Grady – 1:32.13

40th – Kendall Brooke Sedam – 1:55.15

Final Results from Saturday

200 Medley Relay

8th – Anne Grady, Lucy, Beth Mahoney, and Tindra Cederved – 2:18.24

200 Free Relay

11th – Tindra Cederved, Anne Grady, Lucy Lynch, and Beth Mahoney – 2:02.56 (Time cut)

100 Back

15th – Lucy Lynch – 1:17.45 (Personal Best Time from 1:18.10)

The MJHS team begins practice on Monday, February 5 and the MCHS boys’ sectional is February 15 and February 17 at Floyd Central.