Intersquad success

Published 12:02 am Thursday, May 29, 2014

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Stingrays swimmer Cali Fillmer competes in the butterfly event Tuesday night. | Andrew Grner/Star-News

Twenty-four state-qualifying times were met by nine Andalusia Stingrays at their intersquad swim meet Tuesday night at Cooper Pool.

“This early in the season with that many state-qualifying times met could be a good sign of what this group is capable of accomplishing,” Stingrays coach Gavin Donaldson said. “Several of the other swimmers were close to state-qualifying times and will be able to close the gap over the next couple of weeks.”

The swimmers who swam state qualifying times were Cameron Woodard (100-yard individual medley (IM), 50-yard breaststroke and 50- yard backstroke), Ethan Gobea (100-yard IM), BJ Donaldson (100-yard IM, 50-yard breaststroke, 50-yard freestyle and 50-yard butterfly), Evie Younce (50-yard breaststroke and 50-yard backstroke), Grace Philpott (100-yard IM, 50-yard breaststroke and 50-yard backstroke), Emma Younce (100-yard IM, 50-yard breaststroke, 50-yard freestyle, 50-yard butterfly and 100-yard freestyle), Mary Beth Baker (100-yard IM and 50-yard backstroke), Katrine Christensen (100-yard IM) and Cali Fillmer (100-yard IM, 50-yard freestyle and 50-yard butterfly).

The Stingrays held their annual intersquad meet to iron out the kinks before their regular season starts tomorrow night at Troy.

“The team got off to a good start with the intersquad meet of the summer season,” Donaldson said. “Despite the adversity of the cooler water temps and the limited practice time with what could be done with the swimmers over the last four weeks, I was pleased with the baseline times set in the meet.”

In addition to the state-qualifying times met, 17 personal best times were swam.

Swimmers who finished on top their respective events and finals times are listed below:

100-yard IM

• Alex Browning, 1 minute, 39.84 seconds;

• Anna Taylor, 1:43.56;

• Cameron Woodard, 1:42.39;

• Claire Breedlove, 1:30.97;

• Ethan Gobea, 1:18.02;

• Katrine Christensen, 1:37.23;

• BJ Donaldson, 59.71;

• Emma Younce, 1:08.69;

Breaststroke

25 yards

• Anna Grace Scott, 36.87;

50 yards

• Browning, 48.55;

• Evie Younce, 46.82;

• West Parker, 49.33;

• Breedlove, 47.06;

• Erin Philpott, 53.29;

• Donaldson, 30.27;

• Emma Younce, 35.52;

Freestyle

25 yards

• Jake Talbott, 25.47;

• Scott, 22.41;

50 yards

• Aidan Vines, 38.82;

• Evie Younce, 36.50;

• Woodard, 35.80;

• Breedlove, 35.47;

• Gobea, 27.67;

• Christensen, 38.45;

• Donaldson, 23.94;

• Emma Younce, 27.39;

Medley Relay

100 yards

• Braxton Baker, Baylor Turman, Jake Talbott and Houston Smith, 2:27.33; and MacKenzie Phillips, Anna Grace Scott, Brianna Toney and Sara Catherine Sansom, 2:14.56;

200 yards

• Brad Talbott Jr., Vines, Alex and Tyler Browning, 3:48.60; and Anna Taylor, Ashli Parker, Evie Younce and Carrie Beth Pinson, 3:18.45;

• Ellis Mount, Parker, Woodard and Addison Mount, 3:11.01; and Hannah Grace Wilkinson, Annabelle Ezell, Kalli Grace Turman and Breanna Bowman, 3:44.99;

• Wyatt Taylor, Gobea, Connor McDonnell and Josh Bowman, 3:10.75;

• Jeremy Boyd, Zach Parker, Donaldson and Ben Parker, 2:11.20; and Baker, Emma Younce, Fillmer and Grace Philpott, 2:09.47;

Butterfly

50 yards

• Vines, 50.50;

• Woodard, 49.29;

• Kalli Grace Turman, 55.70;

• Gobea, 43.76;

• Christensen, 31.10;

• Donaldson, 27.32;

• Fillmer, 29.72;

Backstroke

25 yards

• Jake Talbott, 25.76;

• Brianna Toney, 27.01;

50 yards

• Vines, 51.26;

• Evie Younce, 45.54;

• Woodard, 44.89;

• Breedlove, 40.86;

• Gobea, 40.16;

• Christensen, 48.35;

• Zach Parker, 32.72;

• Baker, 32.04;

Freestyle

25 yards

• Vines, 17.28;

• Evie Younce, 16.21;

• Woodard, 16.11;

• Breedlove, 16.68;

• Gobea, 13.23;

• Christensen, 18.61;

• Donaldson, 11.32;

• Emma Younce, 12.97;

50 yards

• Jake Talbott, 1:05.98;

• Scott, 57.07;

100 yards

• Browning, 1:34.29;

• Evie Younce, 1:23.33;

• Woodard, 1:27.09;

• Breedlove, 1:21.57;

• Gobea, 1:10.95;

• Christensen, 1:31.20;

• Donaldson, 55.39;

• Baker, 1:01.68;

Freestyle Relay

100 yards

• Jake Talbott, Turman, Dylon Smith and Braxton Baker, 1:52.86; and Scott, Toney, Phillips and Ada Blackstock, 1:55.89;

200 yards

• Browning, Brad Talbott, Cody Wagoner and Vines, 3:40.89; Ashli Parker, Pippen Turman, Carrie Pinson and Taylor, 3:21.76;

• Ellis Mount, Demetric Toney, West Parker and Woodard, 2:47.80; and Kalli Turman, Hannah Wilkinson, Kenna Pullin and Ezell, 3:31.37;

• Wyatt Taylor, McDonnell, Bowman and Gobea, 2:40.69;

• Boyd, Ben Parker, Zach Parker and Donaldson, 1:58.98; and Fillmer, Grace Philpott, Baker and Emma Younce, 1:54.28.