Fort Recovery relay earns all-Ohio honors

CANTON, Ohio — The Tribe’s relay team finished as one of the best in the state.

Fort Recovery High School’s 200-yard freestyle relay earned All-Ohio honors Wednesday by placing 16th in the OHSAA Division II Swimming and Diving State Championships at C.T. Branin Natatorium.

The top 16 places in each race earn All-Ohio distinction.

Hawken School of Gates Mills scored 387 points to win its 23rd consecutive state championship and 30th in program history. Hathaway Brown (Shaker Heights) scored 260 points for second and Columbus School for Girls took third with 133 points.

Fort Recovery earned two points and finished in a five-way tie for 52nd out of 59 scoring teams.

The Tribe relay of seniors Paige Fortkamp, Autumn Bubp and Ava Bubp as well as freshman Teigen Fortkamp swam to a time of 1 minute, 43.32 seconds. They dropped their seed time by nine hundredths of a second during their best swim of the season.

Hathaway Brown earned the state championship in the race with its time of 1:35.74.

Teigen Fortkamp also competed in the 50 freestyle, placing 18th in 24.61 seconds, which was 0.13 slower than her seed time. Mairin O’Brien of Hathaway Brown was the state champion in 23.15 seconds.

Fellow Midwest Athletic Conference schools Coldwater (19th) and New Bremen (36th) also scored points in the state meet.