LHSAA Division III Swimming Championships
- November 20-21, 2024
- SPAR Aquatic Middle
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Full Outcomes
Women’ Meet
The Episcopal ladies narrowly defeated E.D. White Catholic Excessive for the 2024 Division III Women’ State Championship. They scored 338 factors, beating E.D. White Catholic by simply 11 factors to assert the title.
Episcopal bought out to a scorching begin, successful the primary three occasions and setting a Division III report within the opening 200 medley relay (1:50.44). After the medley quartet opened the meet on such a excessive, freshman Elise Grey Bennett gained her first of two particular person occasions on the day, securing the 200 freestyle victory in 1:56.46. Later, she gained the five hundred freestyle in 5:21.22.
Sophomore Lilianna Latour doubled up for Episcopal as effectively. First, she stretched their win streak to 3, successful the 200 IM in 1:56.46. Later, she gained the 100 breaststroke in 1:07.46; each had been lifetime bests for her.
Junior Ryli Cazenave snapped Episcopal’s win streak, touching first within the 50 freestyle and getting E.D. White Catholic’s first occasion win of the day. Cazenave pulled away from the sector, clocking a 24.59 to win. The majority of E.D. White Catholic’s factors got here from their depth within the finals, however this was one occasion the place they dominated. Not solely did Cazenave win, however her teammate Bree Usey grabbed second, becoming a member of Cazenave sub-25 seconds with a 24.86.
Regardless of their 1-2 end within the particular person 50 freestyle, Episcopal narrowly defeated E.D. White Catholic within the 200 freestyle relay. Episcopal clocked 1:42.54, beating E.D. White Catholic by eight-hundredths. E.D. White Catholic responded within the 400 freestyle relay, swimming 3:48.47 for the win.
Rylee Simoneaux was the opposite double-event winner for Episcopal. The College of Houston commit gained the 100 free/100 again mixture, swimming 52.39/55.10.
College Excessive’s Bailey Van Hoogstraten was the one swimmer not from Episcopal or E.D. White Catholic to win an occasion. She swam to victory within the 100 fly, hitting a lifetime finest 58.69 to win the race by seven-tenths.
Women’ Prime 10 Closing Outcomes:
- Episcopal Excessive College — 338
- E.D. White Catholic Excessive — 327
- St. Charles Catholic — 203
- College Excessive — 189
- Archbishop Hannan Excessive College — 186
- Parkview Baptist College — 152
- Isidore Newman College — 118
- St. James Excessive College — 94
- Lutcher Excessive College — 87
- Jennings Excessive College — 67
Boys’ Meet
On the boys’ facet of the championship, E.D. White Catholic dominated. They racked up 574 factors, outscoring the second-place Lutcher Excessive College by 302 factors. They gained all however two occasions, as they bought particular person occasion wins from 5 totally different swimmers.
Junior Luke Husbands gained two occasions for E.D. White Catholic, sweeping the dash freestyle occasions. The 50 freestyle was a specific spotlight for the crew prefer it was on the women’ facet. Husbands gained in a lifetime finest 20.89, main a podium sweep for this system. He swam one other lifetime finest to win the 100 free, swimming 46.36 to win by 1.69 seconds.
Their 50 freestyle dominance translated to the 200 freestyle relay, the place they swam a DIII report 1:26.36. They went three-for-three within the relays, successful the 200 medley relay in 1:38.86 and the 400 free relay in 3:13.34.
The E.D. White Catholic boys went on a fair longer successful streak than the Episcopal ladies, successful all of the occasions earlier than the primary break after the 50 freestyle. Thomas Daigle (200 free, 1:44.89), and Anthony Lafont (200 IM, 1:56.87) contributed to that streak together with Husbands. Later, Aiden Templet (500 free, 4:55.52), and Cade Poimboeuf (100 backstroke, 53.45) picked up extra occasion wins for the crew.
It was Westlake’s Talen Garrard who ended their streak by successful the 100 butterfly forward of 2-3-4-6 E.D. White Catholic end. Garrard, a junior, swam a lifetime better of 53.35, successful the race by .90 seconds.
Episcopal sophomore Jack McConnell was the opposite non-E.D. White Catholic swimmer to climb on prime of the rostrum. He gained the 100 breaststroke, the final particular person occasion of the day, by being the one swimmer within the discipline to get beneath 1:00 (59.69). This was McConnell’s first swim beneath the minute mark himself.
Boys’ Prime 10 Closing Outcomes:
- E.D. White Catholic Excessive — 574
- Lutcher Excessive College — 272
- St. Charles Catholic — 162
- Calvary Baptist Academy — 156
- St. James Excessive College — 143
- Saint Louis Excessive College — 122
- Episcopal Excessive College — 117
- Westlake Excessive College — 97
- College Excessive — 68
- Isidore Newman College — 66
