2024 GIRLS IHSA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
FINAL TEAM STANDINGS (TOP 10)
- Rosary – 290
- New Trier – 272
- St Charles North – 251
- Stevenson – 176
- Lyons – 146
- Hinsdale – 105
- Loyola – 81.5
- Neuqua Valley – 80
- Whitney Younger – 79
- Fremd – 65
Finals of the 2024 Illinois Excessive College Affiliation (IHSA) Women Championships came about yesterday on the FMC Aquatic Middle. The meet noticed Rosary repeat as state champions, although New Trier, who gained back-to-back titles in 2021 and 2022, made it an in depth meet. New Trier completed runner-up for the 2nd 12 months in a row, whereas St Charles North rounded out the highest 3.
There have been some actually phenomenal swims on the day, together with Rosary’s 200 free relay breaking the IHSA document that they’d set on Friday in prelims. Becky Rentz (22.65), Ariyana Nieckula (22.79), Paige Kowal (22.84), and Olivia Moore (23.41) mixed for a 1:31.69, taking almost half a second off the 1:32.04 they swam in prelims. A pair different notable splits within the 200 free relay embrace St Charles North senior Avery Luedke anchoring her relay in 22.62, and Lyons senior Ella Jean Kelly anchoring her relay in 22.76.
Equally, St Charles North would break the IHSA document they set in prelims within the 400 free relay as properly. Tessalina Stavropoulos (50.16), Luedke (49.37), Kate Farrell (50.59), and Izzy Beu (49.08) teamed up for a 3:19.20, clipping the three:19.43 they went in prelims. Rosary was shut behind, seeing Nieckula (50.64), Rentz (48.89), Kowal (50.08), and Annabelle Nawrocki (50.75) swim a 3:20.36. The quickest break up within the discipline got here from New Trier senior Tierney Lenahan, who anchored her relay in 48.49.
Outdoors of the relays, Rosary senior Becky Rentz was distinctive in finals, successful the 200 free in 1:45.73. That swim marks a profession finest for Rentz, a Notre Dame recruit, and scared the IHSA document of 1:45.53 that Annika Parkhe set again in 2021. St Charles North’s Avery Luedke, a Tennessee recruit, ripped an enormous private finest for 2nd, swimming a 1:47.83. Luedke’s earlier finest was the 1:48.39 she swam in prelims on Friday. Coming into the meet, her PB was 1:49.87.
Rentz went on from the 200 free to win a thriller within the 100 free. She touched in 48.69, narrowly touching out New Trier senior Tierney Lenahan, who completed in 48.79. Each performances marked enormous profession bests. Rentz got here into the meet with a PB of 49.89, which she swam in February of this 12 months, earlier than going 49.16 in prelims on Friday. Lenahan got here into the meet with a profession better of 49.68, then went 49.37 in prelims earlier than clocking her 48.79 in finals.
Lenahan, a Tennessee recruit, would go on to win the 100 again in 53.20, touching 1st by properly over a second. She holds a private better of 52.78 within the occasion.
Avery Luedke was again in motion within the 500 free, the place she gained in 4:48.42. The efficiency clipped her earlier better of 4:49.15, which she swam again in February. She swam a constant race on Saturday, splitting 55.22, 58.48, 58.51, 57.92, and 58.29 respectively by 100.
Whitney Younger senior Isabella Chow, a Northwestern recruit, put up an ideal swim within the 50 free, successful the race convincingly with a 22.53. Chow’s earlier finest stood at 22.75.
One other prime swimmer on the meet was St Charles North senior Izzy Beu, who gained the 200 IM and 100 fly. Following her 1:57.94 in prelims of the 200 IM on Friday, Beu gained the occasion in 1:58.24 on Saturday. She then went on to swim a 53.22 en path to victory within the 100 fly. Her 100 fly time marks a profession finest. Beu is a Georgia recruit.
Rosary senior Elizabeth Nawrocki swam a 1:01.04 to win the 100 breast. She clocked her profession better of 1:00.74 in prelims. Rockford Christian senior Brooke Corrigan got here in an in depth 2nd with a 1:01.12 after clocking an enormous private better of 1:00.94 in prelims. Nawrocki, like Beu, is a Georgia recruit, whereas Corrigan is heading to Wisconsin subsequent fall.
New Trier earned a win within the 200 medley relay. Lenahan (25.30), Riley McNeal (28.82), Zara Bolton (23.77), and Maeve O’Donnell (22.76) mixed for a 1:40.65.
Oswego junior Katie Malm gained diving with a remaining rating of 492.00.
