Prepare for some understatement: The Lady Lancers know their way around the pool.
With an impressive menagerie of individual and relay wins, SM East’s varsity girls swim and dive team took home its eighth — that’s right: eighth — consecutive Sunflower League championship at the Free State High School pool last weekend.
The Lancers notched a total of 281 points. Second place finisher Olathe Northwest had 213.5, and third place Olathe East had 192.
The Lancers were anchored by several strong performances:
- Junior Sarah Freshnock won the 100 M breaststroke with a time of 1:10.
- The relay team of Lanie Leek, Madeline Peters, Elizabeth Bittiker and Tiernan Shank won the 200 M freestyle competition.
- The relay team of Meg Stanley, Emily Minick, Tiernan Shank and Sarah Freshnock won the 400 M freestyle race – and beat a two-year-old school record in the process.
- Senior Cassie Sterbenz finished third place in the dive meet.
Led by coach Rob Cole, you can bet the Lancers will be gearing up hard to prepare for a possible third consecutive state championship May 18-19 in Topeka.
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