Gators Swim Into the New Year

The Gators Swim Team kicked off the New Year by attending the Frostbite Invitational meet on January 3rd and 4th in Onalaska, Wisconsin.  The closed YMCA meet was hosted by the La Crosse Area Family YMCA Swim Team and other participating teams included the YMCA of The Chippewa Valley, Stevens Point Dolphins YMCA and Marshfield Area YMCA.  Gators had 15 swimmers who earned a combined score of 535.5 with the men’s team earning 208 and the women’s team earning 327.5 over the two day competition.

High point swimmers for the weekend included Everett Ramirez (9) earning 101 points with first place finishes in the Boys 10&Under 200 Free (2:37.47Y), the Boys 10&Under 100 Free (1:12.32Y) Boys 9-10 50 Free (34.49Y), second place in the Boys 10&Under 100 IM (1:29.99Y), sixth place in the the Boys 9-10 50 Back (41.29Y) and eighth place in the Boys 9-10 50 Breast (49.41Y). Barrett Berg (13) earning 94 points with first place finishes in the Boys 13-14 50 Free (23.80Y), the Boys 13-14 50 Fly (28.25Y) and the Boys 11& Over 500 Free (5:23.84Y) and second place finishes in the Boys 13-14 100 Free (52.71Y) and the Boys 13-14 50 Breast (33.31Y). Olivia Hustad (10) earned 77 points with a second place finish in the Girls 10& Under 100 Back (1:24.74Y), third place in the Girls 10& Under 200 Free (2:49.62Y) fifth place in the Girls 9-10 50 Back (38.83Y), seventh place in the Girls 10 & Under 100 Free (1:18.79Y) and ninth place finishes in Girls 10& Under 100 IM (1:35.26Y) and the Girls 9-10 50 Fly (45.20Y). Olive Akins (10) earned 56 points with third place finish in the Girls 9-10 500 Free (8:21.68Y), sixth place in the Girls 9-10 50 Breast (47.96Y), seventh in the Girls 10& Under 100 Breast (1:48.06Y), eleventh place in the Girls 9-10 50 Free (38.88Y) and thirteenth in the Girls 10& Under 100 IM (1:39.72Y). Scarlett Hammon (10) earned 30 points with fifth place in the Girls 10& Under 100 Breast (1:42.66Y) and seventh in the Girls 9-10 50 Breast (48.37Y), fourteenth in the Girls 10& Under 100 IM (1:41.13Y) and sixteenth place in the Girls 9-10 50 Free (40.95Y).

Other point earners for the Gators included Stella Rolli (12) with 29 points with third place in the Girls 11& Over 100 Fly (1:36.25Y) and sixth place in the Girls 11& Over 100 Breast (1:42.00Y). Lauren Kosmosky (12) earned 20 points with fifth place in the Girls 11 & Over 100 Breast (1:36.28Y), eight place in the Girls 11 & Over 50 Free (29.96Y) and eleventh place in the Girls 11& Over 100 Free (1:08.37Y). Sadie Deal (11) earned 17 points with sixth place in the Girls 11 & Over 200 IM (3:48.43Y) and thirteenth in the Girls 11-12 50 Breast (54.87Y). Georgia Christen (12) earned 15 points with eleventh place finishes in the Girls 11& Over 100 Back (1:47.17Y), Girls 11 & Over 200 Free (3:17.71Y), fourteenth place in the Girls 11-12 50 Fly (51.14Y). Charlotte Stuessy (11) earned 12.5 points with tenth place in the Girls 11 & Over 100 Back (1:40.90Y), thirteenth in the Girls 11-12 50 Fly (50.04Y), and fifteenth in the Girls 11-12 50 Back (47.01Y). Quintin Soddy (11) earned 11 points with a tenth place finish in the Boys 11-12 50 Breast (1:04.03Y) and thirteenth in the Boys 11-12 50 Back (55.80Y). Ara Schmidt (14) earned 9 points with a ninth place finish in the Girls 11& Over 100 Breast (1:36.02Y). Avery Mansfield (9) earned 6 points with twelfth place in the Girls 10 & Under 100 Free (1:32.05Y) and sixteenth place in the Girls 9-10 50 Back ( 45.25Y). Cullin Soddy (9) earned 2 points with a fifteenth place in the Boys 9-10 50 Free (55.44Y).

The Gators Girls 10& Under relay team took fifth place in both the 200 Free Relay (2:34.84Y) and the 200 Medley Relay (2:55.39Y). Each swim earned 28 points . The Free relay included Scarlett Hammon (10), Avery Mansfield (9), Olive Akins (10) and Olivia Hustad (10).  The Medley relay included Olivia Hustad (10) swimming Backstroke, Olive Akins (10) swimming Breaststroke, Scarlett Hammon (10) swimming Butterfly and Avery Mansfield (9) swimming Freestyle.

The Gators will attend a dual meet at Beaver Dam on Sunday January 11th and host a dual meet against the Dubuque Dolphins on Saturday January 24th.