Snow moves on to regional diving meet

Maddy Snow has competed at the diving regional the past three years.

The senior didn’t have her best day at the sectional, but did just enough to make it four straight seasons of advancing.

Snow claimed the fourth and final advancing spot at the IHSAA Sectional 7 tournament that the Jay County High School swim team hosted on Saturday.

(Only the diving portion of the sectional was held, as the swimming got postponed to Monday.)

To advance to the regional, which will be held today at Hamilton Southeastern, divers had to finish in the top four at their respective sectionals. Snow’s 308 points claimed that spot. The top two places went to Delta as Grier Backus rallied for 373.65 points and Ava West followed her with 335.15. Norwell’s Emerson Meredith claimed the other regional berth with a score of 319.35. Savanna Condie of Delta finished fifth with 281.80.

Snow’s best dives came back-to-back as she earned 33s on a forward double somersault tuck and an inward 1 ½ somersault tuck.

Snow never earned less than a 22.4, which she got on her first dive of the day, a reverse dive tuck.

Miller leads

FORT WAYNE — The JC Flipsters gymnastics team competed at the Walk of Fame Classic over the weekend.

Emalee Miller and Emma Robinson put together the best performances, each earning a top-five finish all around.

Miller placed fourth all-around in the Xcel Bronze category with a score of 36.0. Her best finish came on the vault, as 8.85 points netted her third in the event. She also had sixth-place finishes on the beam (9.1) and the floor (9.15).

Robinson competed in the Xcel Silver division, claiming fifth all around with 36.825 points. The vault also treated Robinson well, netting her 9.15 points for third. She came fifth on both the bars (9.3) and the floor (9.35) as well.

Aubree Shannon had the top finish of the Xcel Gold division with an all-around score of 35.875. She was the runner-up on the bar with 9.325 points.

Girls dominate

The Jay County Winter Swim team held their home meet on Sunday with the girls dominating the field and the boys coming in fourth despite only having three tankers. 

The Jay County girls finished with 614 points, demolishing the field as the runner-up finished with only 295. The three Jay County boys put together 83 points to claim fourth place out of six teams.

They had four tankers finish as high point winners.

Hayden Guggenbiller led the 8-and-younger girls by winning all five of her events.

Carsyn Guggenbiller and Elly Byrum ran the 9-10-year-old and 13-14-year-old divisions with four victories and two runner-up finishes each.

Grant Glentzer was the only boy to be a high point winner. He claimed the top spot in the 13-14-year-old boys division with three first-place finishes and was runner-up twice.