Senior Captain Max Scheurer participated in a signing ceremony with the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities on February 1, at Centennial High School. The ceremony was especially memorable because Scheurer is the first Centennial boys’ swimmer to commit to swim for a NCAA Division I school. Max’s competitive swimming career started when he joined the Centennial boys swimming team as an eighth grader. He chose to participate in the sport because he had a few friends that were Centennial swimmers and he was looking for something to do after...

The 7th, 8th and 9th grade Centennial Junior Invitational brought four teams together to turn out many extremely fast swims for everyone one that competed. The competition was so tight between the four teams, that the team rankings were not known until the completion of the last event when it was announced that Maple Grove placed first with 366.5 points, Centennial placed second with 340.5 points, St. Michael-Albertville placed third with 321 points and Duluth East placed fourth with 254 points. The 200 Freestyle relay team of Jaedyn Lynch-Rygh, Owen...

Centennial took an 80 to 101 loss against Maple Grove during its “Cougar’s Seniors Night” meet on January 26, 2023. Fast times were turned in at the start of meet when both the Cougars’ 200 Medley Relay team of George Atkinson, Max Scheurer, Tyler Celotta and Ben Condon and the Crimson’s 200 Medley Relay team swam times that were quicker than the pool record. The Crimson team’s first palce finish time of 1:40.80 was the fastest in the race so they got to claim the spot on the Centennial pool’s...

For the second year in a row, the 7th, 8th, and 9th grade Cougars won the Red, White and Blue Invitational. Out of the five teams that competed in the meet, Centennial struggled to stay ahead of the very strong team from Mankato West, but after Jaedyn Lynch-Rygh, Bennann Nielson, and Grant Page took four of the five top spots in the 100 Backstroke and the Centennial “A” 400 freestyle relay team of Charlie Bryant, Garrett Clark, Isaac Nhuyen, Benno Schuhbauer and the Centennial “B” 400 freestyle relay team team...

Despite taking eight first place finishes out of twelve events, Centennial lost a close meet against Andover on Thursday, January 19. The final score of the meet was Huskies 95 and Cougars 91. The meet was a back-and-forth contest between the two teams and victory was not claimed by either of them until the results of the last event were posted. During the meet, Senior Captain Max Scheruer’s first place finish time in the 100 breaststroke of 58.02 was a pool record performance, meaning that his name will be memorialized...

Centennial had high hopes for a second-place finish going into the 2023 Section 7AA True Team Meet held on January 14, 2023, but came home disappointed with a third-place finish behind Andover. It was only the second time in the team's eight year history that it has placed third at this meet. Head Coach Pete Crawford was pleased with the Cougars performance at the competition and highlighted the fact that his swimmers turned in 29 seed time improvements out of 44 swims. It was also pointed out that there were...

The Cougars competed at home against the very small Orioles Swimming and Diving Team on January 12. From the start of the meet to its end Centennial dominated Osseo by outscoring them in ten of the twelve events. The 99 to 79 score was a nice gift to all of the Centennial parents that came to the meet to be honored by their athletes during Parent’s Night. The highlight of the meet was eighth grader Benno Schuhbauer who set middle school records in both the 50 backstroke and 100 Freestyle....

Max Scheurer was awarded the meet's 3th top point earner for individual swimmers at the Border Battle Invitational held in Fargo, ND on January 7, 2023. Max placed first in the 100 Breaststroke and second in the 200 IM. Other Cougars that helped Centennial earn its fifth place ranking out of twelve teams were: George Atkinson, Alex Larkin, Ben Condon, Isaac Nguyen, Joesph Murray, Tyler Celotta, Manny Poscher, Garrett Clark, Benno Schubauer and Charlie Bryant. After the meet, Centennial diving Coach Lee Raihle pointed out that Junior Captain Tyler Celotta...

After a couple of weeks of multiple canceled practices and athletes missing workouts due to illness and family obligations over winter break, Centennial faced off with Champlin Park for its third dual meet of the season on January 5, 2023. The Cougars entered the meet confident for the win, despite the fact that its swimmers only had one team practice over the previous six days and it was working with a meet lineup that required many of the team’s varsity swimmers to race in events that they were not accustomed...

After 9 years in the making, the Centennial Cougars hosted the first alumni swimming meet in the team's history on December 28, 2022. The alumni swimmers made their presence known in the pool by winning almost every event and displaying some extremely fast times. A few of the returning Cougars even turned in personal record performances in the events that they swam that evening. Volunteer Coach Greg Belting, who has been with team since its conception in 2012, said that it "is a great expeirence when alumni can come back...