THE REPORTER
The Carmel swim teams hosted Zionsville and Homestead Wednesday in a double dual meet.
Both Greyhounds teams easily defeated each of their opponents. On the girls side, Carmel took care of Zionsville 136-34 and Homestead 125-45, with victories in 10 of the 11 events.
Alex Shackell was a double winner for the Greyhound girls, taking the 50 and 100 freestyles. In both races, Shackell led a 1-2-3 sweep of the event. Carmel also swept the top four in the 200 free (with Lynsey Bowen winning) and the individual medley (which Molly Sweeney won). Also placing first in individual events were Lexie Ward (500 free), Berit Berglund (backstroke) and Lucy Enoch (breaststroke); the Hounds also won all three relays.
Carmel’s Erin Cummins finished second in the girls 500 freestyle, then came back to place seventh in the backstroke (pictured). (Richie Hall)
Carmel’s boys beat Zionsville 101-69 and Homestead 120-50, with seven event victories. Aaron Shackell was first in the 200 free and breaststroke. Sean Sullivan won the 50 free and Brandon Malicki took the breaststroke, and the Greyhounds were also winners in the medley and 200 free relays.
Carmel coach Chris Plumb said his swimmers are coming off what he called “really good meets” at the junior nationals and nationals events, including setting some national records in age group competition.
“So, we felt good about our team coming out of that and now we’re in some heavy training,” said Plumb. “Kids are seeing that, but that always helps you come February and March.”
Plumb said that in the regular-season meets, “instead of training in practice, it’s an opportunity to make training in a meet.” The coach said that instead of doing similar race performances in practice, the swimmers get on the blocks and “get more of the feel for what actually the meet is.”
The Hounds have two more regular-season meets left, as they host Fishers on Tuesday and Pike on Thursday, Jan. 12. All the while, Carmel will be training for the post-season, which begins with the girls sectionals on Feb. 2 and the boys sectionals on Feb. 16. The girls have won 36 consecutive state championships, while the boys have won eight state titles in a row.
GIRLS MEET
Team scores: Carmel 136, Zionsville 34; Carmel 125, Homestead 45; Zionsville 93, Homestead 77.
200 medley relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Berit Berglund, Molly Sweeney, Alex Shackell, Meghan Christman) 1:43.77, 3. Carmel “B” (Grace Dougherty, Lucy Enoch, Kayla Barr, Erin Cummins) 1:52.43, 6. Carmel “C” (Rachel Dawson, Addy Czarnecki, Brooke Cummings, Maddy Lathrop) 1:55.06.
200 freestyle: 1. Lynsey Bowen 1:52.54, 2. Lexie Ward 1:56.35, 3. Keira Kask 1:56.56, 4. Barr 1:58.16, 8. Parker Kurzawa 2:02.60.
200 individual medley: 1. Sweeney 2:07.30, 2. Enoch 2:08.15, 3. Kask 2:08.61, 4. Vivian Wilson 2:10.04, 6. Alyssa Street 2:14.67.
50 freestyle: 1. Shackell 22.93, 2. Christman 24.92, 3. Dougherty 25.28, 5. Lathrop 25.84, 9. Dawson 26.31.
100 butterfly: 2. Berglund 59.34, 4. Christman 1:01.42, 6. Savannah Irizarry 1:01.57, 9. Cummings 1:02.02, 10. Whitney Fung 1:02.32.
100 freestyle: 1. Shackell 50.00, 2. Bowen 52.57, 3. Dougherty 54.81, 5. Sweeney 56.15, 6. Lily Clark 57.24.
500 freestyle: 1. Ward 5:07.35, 2. Cummins 5:12.75, 4. Czarnecki 5:21.14, 6. Kurzawa 5:25.80, 7. Irizarry 5:32.99.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Bowen, Cummins, Dougherty, Christman) 1:39.11, 3. Carmel “B” (Czarnecki, Dawson, Cummings, Sydney Ladine) 1:43.84, 6. Carmel “C” (Fung, Madison Conley, Juliana Weinrich, Makenna Sura) 1:48.12, 8. Carmel “D” (Clark, Sydney Warneke, Kennedie Baldwin, Hilary Ma) 1:51.41, 9. Carmel “E” (Samantha Powers, Julia Bricker, Alexa Chang, Ava Justin) 1:52.93.
100 backstroke: 1. Berglund 56.55, 4. Charlotte Fagin 59.54, 5. Barr 59.72, 7. Cummins 1:03.45, 8. Dawson 1:03.48.
100 breaststroke: 1. Enoch 1:06.52, 2. Wilson 1:07.47, 6. Street 1:11.02, 8. Czarnecki 1:12.52, 11. Weinrich 1:13.42.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel “B” (Berglund, Shackell, Enoch, Ward) 3:33.10, 2. Carmel “A” (Wilson, Sweeney, Bowen, Kask) 3:36.36, 4. Carmel “C” (Street, Irizarry, Kurzawa, Lathrop) 3:47.81.
BOYS MEET
Team scores: Carmel 101, Zionsville 69; Carmel 120, Homestead 50; Zionsville 106, Homestead 64.
200 medley relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Sean Sullivan, Brandon Malicki, Aaron Shackell, Michael Gorey) 1:34.11, 5. Carmel “B” (Emile Haig, Ethan Zhang, Andrew Shackell, AJ Robertson) 1:40.69, 9. Carmel “C” (Drew DuBois, Luke Feller, Jude Bearden, James Porterfield) 1:45.60.
200 freestyle: 1. Aa. Shackell 1:42.15, 3. Lewis Zhang 1:46.11, 6. Anderson Kopp 1:49.99, 8. Cameron Harrell, 1:52.15, 9. An. Shackell 1:53.38.
200 individual medley: 2. Gregg Enoch 1:53.89, 3. Malicki 2:00.25, 4. Gorey 2:00.99, 5. William Lathrop 2:07.70, 6. Cory Han 2:08.72.
50 freestyle: 1. Sullivan 21.66, 4. Robertson 22.31, 7. Bearden 23.22, 9. Porterfield 23.54, 12. Tyson Haynes 24.61.
100 butterfly: 1. Aa. Shackell 50.69, 4. Brian Qian 53.46, 5. Nicholas Plumb 53.88, 6. Luke Pugh 54.42, 8. Haig 55.63.
100 freestyle: 1. Enoch 46.60, 4. Robertson 49.86, 6. Porterfield 50.97, 8. Ryan Roop 51.85, 10. E. Zhang 53.21.
500 freestyle: 2. Carson Szotek 4:44.87, 4. Pugh 4:57.40, 5. Colin Cammack 5:01.93, 6. Lukas Biller 5:12.57, 7. Carter Hadley 5:14.94.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Robertson, Enoch, Gorey, Sullivan) 1:27.29, 4. Carmel “B” (Qian, Biller, Cammack, Lathrop) 1:34.33, 7. Carmel “C” (Szotek, Han, Landon Holmes, Hadley) 1:35.19, 9. Carmel “D” (Haynes, Harrell, Noah Meroueh, Zach Pettee) 1:37.78, 11. Carmel “E” (Sean Bandy, Talia Iwase, Dani Colmenarez Leyva, Logan Jent) 1:41.18.
100 backstroke: 2. Sullivan 51.88, 3. Plumb 54.19, 8. Kopp 57.05, 9. Holmes 57.42, 10. Haig 57.66.
100 breaststroke: 1. Malicki 58.19, 4. Gorey 1:02.07, 7. Roop 1:04.23, 12. E. Zhang 1:06.11, 13. L. Zhang 1:07.37.
400 freestyle relay: 2. Carmel “A” (Aa. Shackell, Enoch, An. Shackell, Malicki) 3:09.69, 3. Carmel “B” (L. Zhang, E. Zhang, Plumb, Qian) 3:20.74, 4. Carmel “C” (Cammack, Szotek, Roop, Kopp) 3:23.52, 5. Carmel “D” (Pugh, Lathrop, Han, Holmes) 3:26.57.