Eighteen women’s teams and nineteen men’s teams competed in the Schools with No Pools on Tuesday, January 23 at the IUPUI natatorium. The Oldenburg Boys team finished 6th, the highest placing at this event in school history, as the girls team finished 17th.
“Once again, we had our entire squad of swimmers healthy and competing in this meet,” said Coach Jerry
“We had a great showing from all our swimmers, more records broken, and many personal best times.”
Congratulations to Nash King, Santiago Schutte, Sully Hill, and Noah Schenk on extending the school record in the 200 Medley Relay to 1:49.76. The previous school record of 1:52.17 stood for just over two weeks as the same quartet broke that long-standing record (1:53.51) on January 6 at Madison which had been in place since 2/18/10. The latest Fab Four earned Fifth Place finish awards in this event which saw sixteen teams compete.
Santiago Schutte broke another school record in the 100 Freestyle with a time of 50.26. The previous record of 51.35 was held by J. Pelzel and set on February 23, 2015. Additionally, Santiago earned a First Place finish award in this event, one of two for Oldenburg at this meet. Santiago’s finish time was over two seconds faster than the second-place finisher.
Nash King once again extended his school record time in the 500 Freestyle from 4:56.46 to 4:47.55 which earned him earned First Place award and finish for Oldenburg in this event and bested the next closest completion time by over ten seconds. A mighty showing! Nash is just a few seconds away from a state qualifying time.
He also extended his school record time in the 100 Butterfly from 54.25 to 53.15. Nash earned a Second Place finish award in this event.
Other highlights include:
Girls 200 Medley Relay
Sara Lamping, Avery Austin, Caroline Niese, Claire Walke
Time: 2:30.79
Girls 200 Free Relay
Avery Austin, Claire Walke, Caroline Niese, Sara Lamping
Time: 2:15.02
Personal Bests:
Caroline Niese 200 Free
Time: 2:39.44
Avery Austin 200 Free
Time: 2:47.14
Luke Hopkins 200 Free
Time: 2:29.00
Lauren Richards 50 Free
Time: 36.75
Santiago Schutte 50 Free
Time: 23.15
Grant Rosenberger 50 Free
Time: 28.64
Dominic Yane 50 Free
Time: 34.03
Sully Hill 100 Fly
Time: 1:15.23
Sara Lamping 100 Free
Time: 1:09.11
Noah Schenk 100 Free
Time: 1:01.09
Submitted by the school’s athletic department.