On Tuesday evening, the Hargrave Tigers honored their five competing senior swimmers as they hosted their final regular season meet.
Hargrave’s Senior class includes:
Kip Barksdale (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
Gabriel Chester (Chatham, Virginia)
Tristyn Gavulic (Niceville, Florida)
Joseph Scott Kennedy (Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Michael Lewis (Raleigh, North Carolina)
With everyone hyped up and excited to swim, the Tigers took to the pool to face off with Roanoke Catholic (VIC) and Martinsville, a non-conference opponent. The main focus of the evening was to honor the seniors, but Hargrave had some extra motivation in the back of their minds as well-avenging their early season loss to Roanoke Catholic. After a great showing, the Tigers emerged victorious as a team on the heels of some big time individual performances!
Hargrave 132
Roanoke Catholic 106
Martinsville 18
Notable Performances Included:
Andrew Ponton ’22–qualified for States in the 200 Medley Relay and 400 Free Relay, plus he made it through to the 50 Free Bonus by 0.04 seconds!
Wesley Marquardt ’21–stepped on the gas for the last 5 yards (200 Freestyle) but unfortunately just fell short of beating Scott Kennedy by 0.01 seconds! Both set personal records in that event! Marquardt also swam his fastest 100 Freestyle
In the 200 freestyle our guys (Kennedy, Marquardt and Gavulic) took 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place giving us 15 points!
Kip Barskdale ’20–dropped time in his 100 freestyle
Andrew Bolz ’23–qualified for state in the 100 breaststroke and took 7 seconds off his 200 IM time
Caleb Chester ’21–dropped 2 seconds on his 50 backstroke and time off his 100 breaststroke
Gabe Chester ’20–swam his fastest ever 50 and 100 freestyle!
Gage Crisp ’21–swam his fastest ever 100 freestyle!
Nick DeVeer ’21–dropped his 100 butterfly time by a second but just missed out on qualifying for state
Tristyn Gavulic ’20–dropped 1.5 seconds on his 100 freestyle
Nathan Higdon ’21–qualified for state in the 50 freestyle and dropped 2 seconds off his 500 freestyle, setting a personal best
Scott Kennedy ’20–who came from behind in the 100 backstroke to finish first!
Michael Lewis ’20–who dropped 6 seconds off his 100 backstroke and finished second! A 1-2 win for HMA!
Kayline Pruett ’22–who broke 28 seconds for the 50 freestyle and dropped almost 1 second in the 100 freestyle
Ethan Teluk ’22–dropped another second off his 100 freestyle
Corliss Trinkner ’21–attempted 11 dives for this meet, but unfortunately he failed 2 of the dives which meant an unfortunate DQ. Otherwise, he would have scored his highest number of points to date! But he did swim his fastest ever 50 freestyle, so that’s a win!
The Tigers are back in action on Friday, February 7th from the ODAC as they host the 2020 VIC/BRS Conference Swimming Championship.
