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Whitefish swimmers compete in large Missoula meet

by WHITNEY ENGLAND
Whitefish Pilot | February 2, 2022 1:00 AM

Whitefish Bulldog swim competed on Saturday in a large 17-team meet in Missoula.

With a combined team score, Whitefish placed 11th; the boys team came in eighth place and the girls were 10th in team standings.

The boys team was led by senior Logan Botner who placed fourth out of 40 swimmers in the 100 yard freestyle race with a time of 51.97. Botner also swam in the boys 200 yard medley relay, where Whitefish came in fourth place, as well as anchored the boys 200 yard freestyle relay event that ended up with the Bulldogs in sixth place. Botner also swam to a top-10 finish in the 200 free, taking sixth.

Another Bulldog senior Aaron Dicks placed eighth in the 100 yard backstroke race and also swam in both relays. Junior Jack McDaniel also placed top-10 in the 100 yard breastroke event, taking sixth in the race.

For the girls, Whitefish senior Nia Hanson swam to a third-place finish out of 32 athletes in the 200 yard freestyle race with a time of 2:15.08. That result made Hanson the highest finisher out of Whitefish in the meet. Hanson also anchored the 400 yard freestyle medley team for the Bulldogs, which placed seventh overall. She also placed seventh in the 100 yard freestyle event.

Whitefish has the upcoming weekend off before heading to the Montana All-Class State Swim Meet in Great Falls on Feb. 11-12.

Combined Team Scores

  1. Billings Central Catholic HS 510.5; 2. Missoula Hellgate 494; 3. Missoula Sentinel 408; 4. Bozeman High School 404; 5. Missoula Big Sky/Loyola 324; 6. Gallatin High School 267; 7. Glacier High School 250.5; 8. Columbia Falls High School 236; 9. Hardin High School 230; 10. Helena High School 226; 11. Whitefish High School 209; 12. Helena Capital High School 176; 13. Butte High School 141; 14. Belgrade Panthers 109; 15. Polson High School 76; 16. Flathead High School 39

Girls Team Scores

  1. Missoula Hellgate 263; 2. Billings Central Catholic HS 257.5; 3. Bozeman High School 246; 4. Missoula Big Sky/Loyola 210; 5. Missoula Sentinel 187; 6. Helena High School 173; 7. Glacier High School 155.5; 8. Hardin High School 155; 9. Bigfork High School Swim Team 102; 10. Whitefish High School 90; 11. Columbia Falls High School 85; 12. Gallatin High School 59; 13. Butte High School 46; 14. Helena Capital High School 36; 15. Flathead High School 25; 16. Polson High School 17; 17. Belgrade Panthers 13

Boys Team Scores

  1. Billings Central Catholic HS 253; 2. Missoula Hellgate 231; 3. Missoula Sentinel 221; 4. Gallatin High School 208; 5. Bozeman High School 158; 6. Columbia Falls High School 151; 7. Helena Capital High School 140; 8. Whitefish High School 119; 9. Missoula Big Sky/Loyola 114; 10. Belgrade Panthers 96; 11. Butte High School 95; 11. Glacier High School 95; 13. Hardin High School 75; 14. Polson High School 59; 15. Helena High School 53; 16. Flathead High School 14.

Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay

  1. WHS (Linnea McCrady, Sydney Macintyre, Nia Hanson, Gretel Vine) 2:21.15

Girls 200 Yard Freestyle

  1. Hanson, Nia WHS 2:15.08
  2. Vine, Gretel WHS 2:25.90
  3. Qunell, Emi WHS 2:33.00
  4. McCrady, Linnea WHS 2:33.77

Girls 100 Yard Freestyle

  1. Hanson, Nia WHS 1:02.67
  2. Mercer, Rayna WHS 1:10.50
  3. Vine, Gretel WHS 1:10.68
  4. Bee, Ava WHS 1:11.04

Girls 100 Yard Backstroke

  1. Macintyre, Sydney WHS 1:16.01
  2. Qunell, Emi WHS 1:20.29

Girls 400 Yard Freestyle Relay

  1. WHS (Sydney Macintyre, Emi Qunell, Rayna Mercer, Nia Hanson) 4:36.96

Boys 200 Yard Medley Relay

  1. WHS (Logan Botner, Aaron Dicks, Jack McDaniel, Logan Niles 1:51.98

Boys 200 Yard Freestyle

  1. Botner, Logan WHS 2:01.22
  2. Dicks, Aaron 17 WHS 2:14.24

Boys 50 Yard Freestyle

  1. Niles, Logan WHS 25.70

Boys 100 Yard Freestyle

  1. Botner, Logan WHS 51.97
  2. McDaniel, Jack WHS 55.03
  3. Niles, Logan WHS 59.16

Boys 200 Yard Freestyle Relay

  1. WHS (Logan Niles, Zane Meuter, Aaron Dicks, Logan Botner) 1:45.06

Boys 100 Yard Backstroke

  1. Dicks, Aaron WHS 1:07.16
  2. Meuter, Zane WHS 1:17.90

Boys 100 Yard Breaststroke

  1. McDaniel, Jack WHS 1:11.45