By RICHIE HALL
CARMEL – The Carmel swim teams opened their new natatorium in style on Friday.
The Greyhounds hosted the Carmel Winter Invitational at their beautiful brand-new pool, a facility worthy of the 38-time defending girls state champions and the 10-time defending boys state champions. The ‘Hounds won both meets easily, with the girls team scoring 742 points and the boys team totaling 662.5 points.
“It’s a great way to break in this new pool and have great energy, have a giant scoreboard, fast swimming,” said Carmel coach Chris Plumb. Since this was the first-ever meet, every first-place swim at the meet is officially a pool record.
The Greyhounds welcomed several good team from around the Midwest, with Zionsville, Homestead and Fort Wayne Carroll competing, along with Upper Arlington from Ohio and St. Charles Preparatory, a boys school from Illinois. Plumb said it was a “great opportunity to see what the state competition is going to be like and run through the lineup.”
“I think by having so many teams here, we had a lot of great races,” said Plumb.
Carmel’s girls won nine of the 11 events at the meet. Olympic gold medalist Alex Shackell picked up two individual victories in the 200 freestyle and the backstroke, while Molly Sweeney won the butterfly and breaststroke. Ellie Clarke was first in the individual medley, Lexie Ward won the 500 free and the Greyhounds swept all three relays.
Carmel won five events in the boys meet. Trent Allen was a double winner in the 200 and 500 freestyles with Aaron Shackell finishing first in the butterfly. The Greyhounds also won the medley and 200 free relays.
Carmel’s Molly Sweeney won the girls breaststroke event. (Richie Hall)
GIRLS MEET
200 medley relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Ellie Clarke, Molly Sweeney, Faith Gorey, Maryn Sims) 1:42.22, 4. Carmel “B” (Sophia Floyd, Lucy Enoch, Kayla Barr, Priscilla Smith) 1:46.41, 6. Carmel “C” (Natalie Powers, Savannah Irizarry, Samantha Powers, Lily Clark) 1:49.29.
200 freestyle: 1. Alex Shackell 1:44.24, 2. Lexie Ward 1:49.96, 7. Sims 1:56.87, 12. Katie Daily 2:00.60.
200 individual medley: 1. Clarke 2:01.04, 2. Gorey 2:02.42, 4. Enoch 2:03.95, 6. Leah DeBosch 2:04.26.
50 freestyle: 4. Smith 24.13, 7. Floyd 24.80, 10. L. Clark 25.16, 14. Tiffany Neff 25.75.
100 butterfly: 1. Sweeney 53.42, 3. Gorey 54.86, 6. Barr 57.89, 9. S. Powers 59.89.
100 freestyle: 2. Addy Czarnecki 51.75, 6. Floyd 53.58, 7. Sims 54.41, 12. Alexis Sereno 55.27.
500 freestyle: 1. Ward 4:50.47, 2. Barr 4:54.00, 3. Sabrina Ledwith 4:59.00, 6. Alexandria Clark 5:06.11.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Gorey, Sweeney, Shackell, Clarke) 1:31.92, 3. Carmel “B” (Smith, L. Clark, Ward, Sereno) 1:37.59, 6. Carmel “C” (Avery Aiello, A. Clark, Irizarry, Daily) 1:40.13.
100 backstroke: 1. Shackell 53.23, 2. Clarke 54.20, 4. DeBosch 57.01, 8. Ledwith 59.57.
100 breaststroke: 1. Sweeney 1:02.60, 3. Czarnecki 1:04.24, 4. Enoch 1:04.26, 6. Payton Clark 1:06.76.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Shackell, Sims, Czarnecki, Ward) 3:25.76, 3. Carmel “B” (Floyd, Barr, A. Clark, Sereno) 3:33.23, 8. Carmel “C” (N. Powers, S. Powers, Madison Conley, Aiello) 3:46.74.
BOYS MEET
200 medley relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Anderson Kopp, Yi Zheng, Andrew Shackell, Michael Gorey) 1:29.27, 4. Carmel “B” (Carter Hadley, Cory Han, Luke Pugh, Donald Zhao) 1:34.60, 10. Carmel “C” (Jack Street, Luke Feller, Bryce Lowe, Larry Kong) 1:38.76.
200 freestyle: 1. Trent Allen 1:39.07, 3. Ethan Zhang 1:39.77, 4. Lewis Zhang 1:41.38, 5. Lukas Biller 1:44.02.
200 individual medley: 3. Zheng 1:49.99, 6. Han 1:52.46, 7. Noah Moeller 1:55.47, 20. Freddy BruBaker 2:06.08.
50 freestyle: 2. Shackell 20.30, 4. Gorey 21.18, 6. Hadley 21.59, T10. Pugh 22.12.
100 butterfly: 1. Shackell 47.77, 7. Pugh 51.91, 11. Eddy Zhu 52.52, 12. Biller 52.55.
100 freestyle: 2. Hadley 45.96, 6. E. Zhang 47.32, 8. Zhao 47.88, 9. William Lathrop 48.00.
500 freestyle: 1. Allen 4:27.80, 3. Kopp 4:32.93, 4. L. Zhang 4:33.95, 5. Drew DuBois 4:34.64.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Shackell, Allen, Hadley, Gorey) 1:22.59, 3. Carmel “B” (L. Zhang, Lathrop, Zheng, Pugh) 1:26.33, 6. Carmel “C” (Kong, Zhao, Aaron Trinh, Zhu) 1:29.05.
100 backstroke: 2. Han 50.86, 3. Kopp 50.93, 8. Moeller 52.66, 9, Lathrop 53.11.
100 breaststroke: 2. Zheng 56.08, 3. Gorey 57.40, 12. Luke Feller 1:00.96, 17. Tyson Haynes 1:04.06.
400 freestyle relay: 3. Carmel “A” (Allen, E. Zhang, L. Zhang, Lathrop) 3:07.98, 7. Carmel “B” (Biller, Lowe, Moeller, Zhu) 3:13.45, 9. Carmel “C” (Reilly Sweeney, Cameron Harrell, DuBois, Ethan Johnson) 3:18.21.
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