Swimming Teams Impressive Again On Saturday
The Centenary swimming teams recorded a combined team victory over the McMurry University in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference dual meet for the second day in a row on Saturday morning inside the Centenary Fitness Center.
Shreveport - The Centenary swimming teams recorded a combined team victory over the McMurry University in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference dual meet for the second day in a row on Saturday morning inside the Centenary Fitness Center.
Centenary won the meet by a combined team score of 168-160, with the women claiming a 92-69 victory but the men fell short, 91-76. The Maroon and White opened the season on Friday evening with a 158-132 victory with the men claiming an 82-66 win and the women winning 76-66.
Sophomore Hannah Waddell (Shreveport, La.) capped an impressive opening weekend as she claimed three more individual wins after finishing with three on Friday for a total of six in the two meets. She won the 400-yard IM (5:04.78), the 200-yard freestyle (2:11.93), and the 100-yard breaststroke (1:13.68). On Friday, Waddell won the 500-yard freestyle (5:49.82), the 200-yard breaststroke (2:34.32), and the 200-yard IM (2:21.55).
Sophomore Reece Esser (Huntsville, Texas) won the 100-yard butterfly (1:03.57), earned a runner-up finish in the 50-yard freestyle (26.48), and finished third in the 100-yard backstroke (1:12.52). On Friday, Esser earned a pair of runner-up finishes in the 200-yard backstroke (2:25.82) and the 100-yard freestyle (58.24).
Freshman Bailey Allemeier (Altus, Okla.) earned her first collegiate win as she swam a winning time of 12:30.70 in the 1000-yard freestyle. Allemeier also earned top-five finishes in the 200-yard freestyle (2:14.12) and the 1---yard backstroke (1:14.29).
Sophomore Cicely Jackson (Lafayette, La.) finished as runner up in the 100 fly behind Esser as she swam a time of 1:10.14 and earned a third-place finish in the 50 free (29.39). Jackson was also runner up in the 1000-yard freestyle, swimming a time of 12:32.00. Sophomore Stacy Brown (Baytown, Texas) tallied three top-five finishes – fourth in the 100-yard butterfly (1:25.30), fifth in the 50-yard freestyle (32.13), and fifth in the 400-yard IM (6:18.86).
Freshman Ella Walton (Lafayette, La.) finished fourth in the 200-yard freestyle (2:26.27) and 400 IM (5:50.37), and fifth in the 100-yard backstroke (1:14.60), freshman Isabela Vasquez (Lafayette, La.) finished as runner- up in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:20.75), and sophomore Kennadi St. Clair (Duncanville, Texas) finished third in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:26.67).
On the men's side, freshman Hunter Hedges (Murphy, Texas), freshman Adam Stelly (Opelousas, La.), and freshman Sake Stroderd (Sulphur, La.) each claimed individual wins and Hedges also earned a runner-up finish in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.94) while senior Antonio Barbee (Plaquemine, La.) earned a runner-up finish in the 100-yard butterfly (58.52).
Hedges won the 100-yard butterfly (55.93), Stelly won the 200-yard freestyle (1:52.55), and Stroderd claimed a win in the 50 free (23.22). freshman Trey White (Ball, La.) finished second in the 200 free (1:54.74) and Barbee finished fourth (1:58.70). White also earned a runner-up finish in the 1000-yard freestyle (11:06.20), ahead of freshman Noah Bannan (Mandeville, La.) who swam a time of 11:20.56 to finish third and Barbee was fourth at 11:31.03. Stroderd also earned a third-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke (1:00.27) and freshman Kai North (Tyler, Texas) finished third in the 50 free (25.57).
The Gents finished third through fifth in the 400-yard IM - sophomore Ubaldo Ayala (Hallsville, Texas) was third (4:53.35), junior Jameson Feeney (Shreveport, La.) finished fourth (5:08.77), and freshman Cade Campbell (Ruston, La.) was fifth (5:15.20). Stelly was fourth in the 100-yard backstroke (1:01.30), White was sixth (1:03.75), and Stroderd (1:07.29) and Ayala (1:10.57) finished third and fifth respectively in the 100-yard breaststroke. Senior Daniel Lewis (Alexandria, La.) finished fourth in the 100-yard butterfly (1:00.98).
Centenary hits the road next weekend to face the University of the Ozarks Eagles in a pair of conference dual meets on Oct. 18-19 in Clarksville, Ark.
See the Ladies and Gents' complete season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wswim/2024-25/schedule
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