Centennial’s 7th, 8th and 9th graders were the top team at the Red, White, Blue Invitational that took place on January 22, 2022. “It was a total team effort to pull off this victory”, Head Coach Pete Crawford told the Cougars during the bus ride home from Northdale. Coach Pete also pointed out that Centennial had ribbon winners in all twelve events with multiple team members scoring points in each event. At the conclusion of the meet, Assistant Coach Kevin Setterholm mentioned that it was the most successful meet the...

During the January 20, 2022, meet against Champlin Park, Centennial honored it’s four senior swimmers at their last home meet of their swimming careers. Each of these athletes stepped up to the occasion by turning in fabulous performances. Dominic Stevenson anchored the 400-freestyle relay with a time of 57.16, while Quentin Lehman swam a season best time in the 100-butterfly with a time of 1:03.88. Both Evan Stokkeland’s 100-breaststroke time of 1:15.40 and Connor Herbrechtsmeyer's 50-freestyle relay split time of 22.96 were lifetime best performances. At the conclusion of the...

The Centennial Cougars competed in Section 7AA True Team meet on January 15, 2022. The team had extremely successful performances in the water as 42 of the races the Cougars swam were either personal records or season best times. After the meet, Head Coach Pete Crawford rightly chose senior swimmer Dominic Stevenson as the Cougars' “Swimmer of the Meet” due to his dropping a half second in the 50 backstroke, four seconds in the 100 butterfly, two seconds in the 100 backstroke and one second in the 100 freestyle from...

With six varsity level swimmers out because of illness, Head Coach Pete Crawford asked many of the Cougar's jounior varsity swimmers to step up and fill in holes left in the Centennial line-up during its January 13th, swimming meet against Elk River. Despite the 94 to 84 loss, these debut varsity swimmers did a wonderful job rising to the task. The Cougars had many amazing time drops and season best times during the meet. On the bus ride home from Elk River, Coach Pete highlighted a few of many lifetime...

On Friday, January 7, 2022, Centennial braved subzero temperatures and blizzard like conditions to make a four-hour trip to West Fargo, ND to compete in the 2022 North Dakota / Minnesota Border Battle Invitational on following day. This swimming meet may turn out to be the Cougars’ highlight event of the season because of the unique experiences of spending a night in a hotel, sharing meals with teammates, and competing in a ten-lane, Olympic trail pool against 13 rural Minnesota and North Dakota swimming teams. Both the coaches and the...

Centennial boys swimming celebrated Family Night on January 6, by hosting a powerful Spring Lake Park team. Even though 76 of the Cougars performances were lifetime best times, the Panthers easily won the meet with a final score of 95 to 83. Going into the meet, Head Coach Pete Crawford stated that Spring Lake Park was bringing a tough lineup to the competition, but he was confident that Centennial would not be overwhelmed. Coach Pete was right about how the meet would play out. Even though the Panthers finished first...

With only four first place finishes during Centennial’s home meet with Blaine on December 12, 2021, the Cougars were able to pull out a win with a score of 93 points to the Bengal’s 87. What carried Centennial to a victory over Blaine was the team’s depth and 87 season best times. Despite the few first place finishes, the team captured 9 second place finishes, 5 third place finishes, 6 fourth places finishes and 3 fifth places finishes. It took the whole team to tame the Bengals, who had 3...

On Saturday, December 18, the Centennial Cougars placed third at the Bengal Invitational. Head Coach Pete Crawford said that this feat was accomplished by the team’s incredible depth. After the meet, he stated that what the team lacks for “star” swimmers this year, it makes up with by having a very deep roster of “up-and-coming” athletes. For example, Coach Pete pointed out that at this meet the Cougars had six athletes that swam the 100 freestyle faster than 57 seconds (Ben Condon, Ben Loehr, Dominic Stevenson, Connor Herbrechtsmeyer, George Atkinson...

The Osseo Orioles hosted Centennial for both teams' first dual meet of the 2021-22 season. The Cougars dominated the much smaller Osseo team throughout the whole meet by capturing nine first place finishes out of twelve events. The final score of the meet was Cougars 92 and Orioles 62. Placing first for Centennial were: 200 Yard Medley Relay - Caleb Cregan, Max Scheurer, Joseph Murray, Ben Condon 200 Yard Freestyle - George Atkinson 50 Yard Freestyle - Ben Condon 1 Meter Diving - Sawyer Celotta 100 Yard Butterfly - Dominic...

The forty-five-member Centennial Boys Swimming team had a very rough start to its 2021-22 season. During the Cougars first two weeks of practice, the larger than normal team struggled with mechanical issues at its home pool and needed to find practice time at other pools in the area. Despite multiple canceled practices, Centennial did participate in the Northwest Suburban Conference Relay meet on December 11, 2021. At the seaon's first meet, the Cougars placed third out of six teams. The team scores for the meet were: Spring Lake Park (348),...