Five compete at state for winter swim team

INDIANAPOLIS — Jay County swimmers competed in 15 events at IUPUI.

A handful outperformed their seed line and the 200-yard freestyle relay team put out the best performance.

The Jay County Winter Swim team competed in 15 different events at the state swim meet over the weekend at IUPUI, with the 10-and-younger girls 200 freestyle relay putting out the top performance.

The relay team consisting of Carsyn Guggenbiller, Ellie Wiggins, Sophie Warvel and Addisyn Champ came in seeded 18th, but combined for a swim of 2 minutes, 9.5 seconds to earn the highest finish of the weekend at 12th place.

Cooper Glentzer also finished within the top 20 in his sole event. As the only boy representing Jay County at the meet, he was seeded 23rd, but pulled away to take 19th of 24 swimmers with a time of 18 minutes, 45.66 seconds, in the 1,650 freestyle.

Sophie Warvel also swam in one event, finishing 41st-place by completing the 50 butterfly in 36.9 seconds.

The 10-and-younger 200 medley relay consisting of Champ, Warvel, Guggenbiller and Wiggins came together to finish in 2:31.56 for 20th place.

Guggenbiller competed in the most individual events — she competed in six — at the meet. Her top finish came in the 100 butterfly finishing 29th in 1:26.02, which also beat her seedline by one spot.

In her other five events, Guggenbiller placed 31st in the 100 backstroke (1:21.12), 36th in the 100 individual medley (2:55.98), 41st in the 200 freestyle (2:37), 45th in the 50 butterfly (38.22 seconds) and 46th in the 50 backstroke (38.3).

Champ was just behind Guggenbiller with five individual events. She claimed the highest individual finish as her 100 freestyle time of 1:07.25 exceeded her No. 19 seed to place 18th.

In her other events Champ placed 31st in the 200 individual medley (2:54.68), 32nd in the 50 backstroke (36.16), 36th in the 200 freestyle (2:32) and 43rd in the 40 freestyle (31.6).