By RICHIE HALL
CARMEL – The Carmel swim team hosted Hamilton Southeastern Monday evening in dual meet.
The Greyhounds swept both the girls and boys competitions, with the girls winning 146-40 and the boys triumphing 135-50. Carmel’s girls swept every single event, while the Greyhounds boys were winners in 10 of 12 events.
“It was a good racing opportunity,” said Carmel coach Chris Plumb. He said the team came into this week with “a lot of energy,” and it was the Greyhounds’ Senior Night as well.
Carmel’s girls, winners of 37 consecutive state championships, had solid performances from its veteran swimmers. Junior Lynsey Bowen was first in the individual medley, and junior Alex Shackell won the 50 freestyle. Sophomore Molly Sweeney won the breaststroke, one of the events she won state in as a freshman last year. Carmel also swept all three relays.
Other victorious Greyhounds girls were sophomore Kayla Hann in the 100 free, junior Addy Czarnecki in the 500 free and Kayla Barr in the 100 backstroke and senior Melaina Munson in diving. Meanwhile, two freshmen also won events: Sophia Floyd in the 200 free and Faith Gorey in the butterfly.
“They’re doing great,” said Plumb. “I definitely know they’re going to make an impact in the lineup come sectional time.”
Several of those swimmers were days removed from outstanding performances at the 2023 Speedo East Winter Junior Championships, which took place at Ohio State last week. (More about that meet will appear in a later edition of the Reporter.)
In the boys meet, senior Brandon Malicki won the 50 free, while his classmate Gregg Enoch was first in the butterfly. Both were part of state champion relays for Carmel at last year’s state meet. Other boys winners for Carmel were sophomore Brian Qian (individual medley), sophomore Carter Hadley (100 free), freshman Eddy Zhu (500 free), junior Anderson Kopp (backstroke) and freshman Trent Allen (breaststroke). The ‘Hounds claimed all three relays as well.
Hamilton Southeastern’s Jihoon Jung was first in the boys 200 free. (Julie Brown)
Southeastern had two victories, first from junior Jihoon Jung in the 200 free. Another Royals junior, Gavin Tucker, won diving.
“I was happy with the way that they competed,” said HSE coach Christian Hanselmann. “One of the things that we’re focusing on is learning how to race and practicing those, and taking what we do in practice and putting it into place in competition. I think they did a good job tonight doing that.”
GIRLS MEET
Team score: Carmel 146, Hamilton Southeastern 40.
200 medley relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Grace Dougherty, Molly Sweeney, Faith Gorey, Alex Shackell) 1:44.04, 2. Carmel “B” (Priscilla Smith, Juliana Wenrich, Brooke Cummings, Lily Clark) 1:52.03, 3. Carmel “C” (Rachel Dawson, Payton Clark, Emma Kou, Whitney Fung) 1:56.61, 4. Southeastern “B” (Izzy Schmitt, Lauren Ing, Lacey Huston, Anna Irish) 1:58.15.
200 freestyle: Sophia Floyd (C) 1:54.88, 2. Addy Czarnecki (C) 1:56.94, 3. Charlotte Fagin (C) 1:59.96, 4. Natalie Powers (C) 2:00.75, 5. Elise Herman (HSE) 2:13.39.
200 individual medley: 1. Lynsey Bowen (C) 2:06.82, 2. Alyssa Street (C) 1:58.10, 3. Hannah McNally (C) 2:15.55, 4. Eloise Harrison (HSE) 2:15.56, 5. P. Clark (C) 2:22.60.
50 freestyle: 1. Shackell (C) 22.26, 2. Maddy Lathrop (C) 24.96, 3. Smith (C) 24.97, 4. Irish (HSE) 26.25, 5. Lily Clark (C) 26.26.
One-meter diving: 1. Melaina Munson (C) 231.85, 2. Eeva-Liisa Gibson (C) 176.75, 3. Ayla Abassi (C) 169.00, 4. Zoe Rehm (HSE) 166.60, 5. Adriana Salgado (HSE) 133.25.
100 butterfly: 1. Gorey (C) 58.24, 2. Savannah Irizarry (C) 59.38, 3. Cummings (C) 1:01.49, 4. Meghan Voelker (HSE) 1:01.92, 5. Samantha Powers (C) 1:02.67.
100 freestyle: 1. Kayla Han (C) 52.68, 2. Lucy Enoch (C) 53.80, 3. Ella Chesterfield (HSE) 57.37, 4. Kou (C) 57.46, 5. Fung (C) 58.23.
500 freestyle: 1. Czarnecki (C) 5:11.78, 2. Floyd (C) 5:14.42, 3. N. Powers (C) 5:29.08, 4. Madison Conley (C) 5:35.22, 5. Schmitt (HSE) 5:36.28.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Lathrop, Street, Smith, Floyd) 1:39.69, 2. Southeastern “A” (Audrey Crawford, Meghan Voelker, Ellason Miller, Naomi Haines), 3. Carmel “C” (S. Powers, Weinrich, McNally, N. Powers) 1:45.09, 4. Carmel “B” (L. Clark, Cummings, Fung, Kou) 1:45.20.
100 backstroke: 1. Kayla Barr (C) 57.06, 2. Crawford (HSE) 58.40, 3. Lexie Ward (C) 58.67, 4. Fagin (C) 1:00.05, 5. Dawson (C) 1:01.71.
100 breaststroke: 1. Sweeney (C) 1:02.26, 2. Lathrop (C) 1:09.43, 3. Dougherty (C) 1:09.75, 4. Weinrich (C) 1:10.71, 5. Haines (HSE) 1:11.69.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Han, Bowen, Enoch, Ward) 3:34.40, 2. Southeastern “A” (Kiley Zoeller, Henderson, Julia Kiley, Crawford) 3:38.26, 3. Carmel “B” (McNally, Fagin, Cummings, L. Clark) 3:46.29, 4. Southeastern “B” (Kelsey Graham, Voelker, Chesterfield, Schmitt) 3:52.77.
BOYS MEET
Team score: Carmel 135, Hamilton Southeastern 50.
200 medley relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Anderson Kopp, Brandon Malicki, Andrew Shackell, Michael Gorey) 1:34.42, 2. Southeastern “A” (Jacob Frey, Collin Huston, Jihoon Jung, Derek Robison) 1:37.59, 3. Carmel “C” (Freddy BruBaker, Tyson Haynes, Jack Street, Reilly Sweeney) 1:45.12, 4. Carmel “B” (Drew DuBois, Luke Feller, Cameron Harrell, Bryce Lowe) 1:45.16.
200 freestyle: 1. Jung (HSE) 1:45.39, 2. William Lathrop (C) 1:45.41, 3. Luke Pugh (C) 1:46.75, 4. Noah Moeller (C) 1:51.11, 5. Austin Bruford (C) 1:52.61.
200 individual medley: 1. Brian Qian (C) 1:55.36, 2. Cory Han (C) 1:58.10, 3. Kopp (C) 1:58.19, 4. DuBois (C) 2:07.10, 5. Alden Sealls (HSE) 2:11.42.
50 freestyle: 1. Malicki (C) 21.47, 2. Trent Allen (C) 22.47, 3. Camden Bailey (HSE) 23.29, 4. Jude Bearden (C) 23.81, 5. Frey (HSE) 24.45.
One-meter diving: 1. Gavin Tucker (HSE) 262.20, 2. Henry Summers (C) 222.95, 3. Dryden Moore (HSE) 131.75, 4. Joey Justice (HSE) 99.45.
100 butterfly: 1. Gregg Enoch (C) 51.31, 2. Emile Haig (C) 52.46, 3. Pugh (C) 54.07, 4. Carson Szotek (C) 54.14, 5. Frey (HSE) 57.66.
100 freestyle: 1. Carter Hadley (C) 48.23, 2. Lathrop (C) 49.72, 3. Ethan Johnson (C) 51.50, 4. Bryce Lowe (C) 51.74, 5. Andrew Lu (HSE) 54.79.
500 freestyle: 1. Eddy Zhu (C) 4:48.65, 2. Lukas Biller (C) 4:53.97, 3. C. Harrell (C) 4:59.07, 4. Colin Cammack (C) 5:07.41, 5. Huston (HSE) 5:13.46.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel “B” (Noah Moeller, Landon Holmes, James Porterfield, Lewis Zhang) 1:32.51, 2. Southeastern “A” (Robison, Bailey, Jung, Jack Waren) 1:32.58, 3. Carmel “C” (Feller, Ethan Johnson, Conner Fletchall, Alex Harrell) 1:35.96, 4. Southeastern “B” (Pugh, Huston, Jagger Chan, Xander Goss) 1:36.25.
100 backstroke: 1. Kopp (C) 51.96, 2. Jung (HSE) 52.80, 3. BruBaker (C) 57.88, 4. Sweeney (C) 59.08, 5. Holmes (C) 59.11.
100 breaststroke: 1. Allen (C) 1:00.61, 2. Han (C) 1:00.68, 3. Ethan Zhang (C) 1:01.45, 4. Feller (C) 1:03.03, 5. Pugh (HSE) 1:03.92.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel “A” (Hadley, Allen, Pugh, Shackell) 3:11.44, 2. Carmel “B” (Qian, Lathrop, Haig, Han) 3:14.54, 3. Southeastern “A” (Huston, Bailey, Robison, Waren) 3:24.02, 4. Carmel “C” (Cammack, Zhu, Holmes, Bruford) 3:24.18.