The Carmel ladies and Bolles boys placed on dominant shows in 2024, incomes the 2024 Swammy Award for Excessive College Groups of the Yr. That is the second straight win for the Carmel ladies, as they claimed the women’ title in 2023.
Let’s begin with the Carmel ladies—by successful the 2024 IHSAA Ladies’ State Championship, the crew claimed a historic thirty eighth consecutive state title, extending their nationwide document for the longest highschool state title streak in any sport. The crew earned 433 factors to assert their document title, with Penn incomes second place with 212 factors.
A trio of Carmel swimmers—future Olympian and junior Alex Shackell, junior Lynsey Bowen, and sophomore Molly Sweeney—claimed double particular person occasion wins. Shackell highlighted the day by breaking the 100 fly state document she set the day earlier than with a 50.25. Later, she scared the 100 backstroke state document, coming .13 seconds from Berit Berglund’s mark and breaking 52 seconds for the primary time with a 51.63.
Bowen additionally broke a state document, shattering her mark within the 500 freestyle from 2023 with a 4:40.74. She gained the 200 freestyle with a 1:45.74, beating the sphere by over two seconds. Sweeney gained the 200 IM and 100 breaststroke. Within the 200 IM, she flirted along with her state document, touching in 1:56.25 to narrowly miss her 1:55.88 document from the yr earlier than.
The Carmel ladies gained the 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays. Kayla Barr, Sweeney, Shackell, and Grace Dougherty gained the opening medley relay with a 1:39.13, clearing the sphere by 2.5 seconds. The Greyhounds ended their meet on a excessive notice as Shackell, Bowen, and Sweeney teamed with Religion Gorey to swim 3:18.66 within the 400 freestyle relay, demolishing the sphere to seal their title.
The Bolles boys had been on hearth on the FHSAA 1A State Championships this fall. They roared to the crew’s thirty seventh straight state championship by successful each swimming occasion and sweeping the rostrum a number of instances. Bolles scored 626 factors to earn their 2024 title, greater than double the 209 factors the runner-up Saint Andrew’s College scored. Florida’s boys groups race within the fall, whereas the Indiana highschool season is within the winter, which means the Bolles boys are presently one win behind Carmel’s streak.
The senior class performed an enormous half in closing out their highschool careers on the appropriate notice, as Andrew Kravchenko and Xavier Sohovich had been double particular person occasion winners, and Antoine Destang and Eldad Zamir every stood atop the rostrum in a person occasion.
Kravchenko repeated because the 50 freestyle state champion, then accomplished his sweep of the dash occasions by successful the 100 freestyle. He set lifetime bests in each occasions (19.84/43.65). Sohovich earned his wins within the 200 and 500 freestyle, dropping over two seconds within the 200 freestyle (1:34.92) and 7 seconds within the 500 (4:20.27) to safe his wins.
Destang and Zamir led large performances by Bolles swimmers. Destang headed up a 1-2-3 end within the 100 butterfly (47.61), whereas Zamir defended his 100 breaststroke title (54.69) and led a 1-2-3-4 sweep.
The crew’s different double-event winner was junior Liam Carrington, who led 1-2-3-4 sweeps for Bolles within the 200 IM and 100 backstroke, swimming lifetime bests of 1:47.16 and 48.51, respectively, to win his two particular person occasions.
Bolles ran away with the relay wins as properly; seven boys contributed to the relay wins as Charles Zuhoski and Tristan Dorville joined Kravchenko, Sohovich, Destang, and Zamir in contributing to the victories. Carrington, Zamir, Destang, and Zuhoski gained the 200 medley in 1:28.09, Kravchenko, Zuhoski, Dorville, and Destang swam 1:21.15 to win the 200 free relay, and Sohovich, Destang, Carrington, and Kravchenko gained the 400 free relay in 2:56.44.
Honorable Mentions
- Keller Excessive College (boys): When the Keller Excessive College boys’ gained this Swammy in 2023 after claiming their first-ever state title, we famous that the long run was shiny for this system as solely one of many eight swimmers who contributed to the successful relays graduated. The Keller Excessive College boys continued to impress in 2024. Led by Maximus Williamson, the crew repeated as UIL 6A champions and broke 4 nationwide highschool data. Williamson broke the 200 IM and 100 freestyle nationwide highschool data, clocking 1:40.81 and 41.81. He was additionally on Keller’s two nationwide highschool record-setting relays. Williamson teamed with River Paulk, Riccardo Osio, and Cooper Lucas to set the 200 free relay highschool nationwide document at 1:19.21. Williamson, Lucas, and Paulk had been again on the blocks for the 400 freestyle relay, combining with Maxwell Stanislaus to swim 2:53.80, closing their championship-winning effort with one other nationwide highschool document.
- Santa Margarita (ladies and boys): The ladies’ crew was with out star Teagan O’Dell, however even that didn’t shake Santa Margarita, as the women and boys swept the crew titles for the second yr in a row. The ladies swept the freestyle relays. Within the 200 freestyle relay, Santa Margarita repeated as champions, with Victoria Extra, Morgan Hoope, Ariel Lin, and Chloe Stinson holding off a late cost from San Roman Valley, successful in 1:33.35. Within the final occasion, Mori, Audrey Lee, Lin, and Gracyn Aquino clocked 3:22.80 to win the crew’s third-straight 400 free relay title by over a second. Neither the women nor the boys claimed a person state title, as a substitute utilizing their depth as a crew to energy their state titles.
Earlier Winners
