The Aqua Tribe will be competing in the Hobbs swim this weekend. They started the season with meets in Pecos, Big Spring and Monahans.
“The meets have been okay,” junior Edgar Madrid said. “I think we’re at an advantage [at Hobbs] because it’s in meters, even though most other pools are in yards. We do it in meters here.”
Madrid joins a men’s team with veterans like juniors Chance Pettyjohn and Tyler McCormick, while the women’s team is young.
“The girls are mostly freshmen,” Thiessen said, “so the strongest of us would probably be senior Vicki Caro, sophomore Kourtney Kildow and me.”
The team is working on pre-district speed and technique.
“They’re [meets] going really well,” Thiessen said. “We’re improving our times almost every meet. The hardest thing is going to be accepting that we won’t get better times every time we go to a meet.”
The Aqua Tribe’s most recent competition was in Big Spring on Nov. 18-19.
Results of the Big Spring swim meet:
Women’s 200-yard medley relay–freshman Tori Phillips, Kildow, Thiessenand Caro–10th (2:28.02)
Women’s 200-yard freestyle–freshman Tori Phillips–18th (2:48.87)
Men’s 200-yard freestyle Madrid–11th (2:21.93), and junior Bryan Burleson–12th (2:31.40)
Women’s 50-yard freestyle–Thiessen–eighth (29.74), Caro–18th (32.49), freshman Kinzey Wolf–24th (34.22), freshman Esther Neufeld–27th (37.95), freshman Rubena Loewen–28th (38.20) and freshman Sierra Talamantes–32nd (41.34)
Men’s 50-yard freestyle Pettyjohn–eighth (24.96), McCormick–14th (26.17), freshman Danny Friesen 17th (27.64), Teichroeb 22nd (30.38), freshman Matthew Bueckert 28th (31.77), freshman Jimmie Vaughn 32nd (32.93), freshman Andres Wall 36th (37.40) and freshman Lonny Friesen 38th (40.69)
Men’s 100-yard butterfly–Danny Friesen 11th (1:19.69)
Women’s 100-yard freestyle–Thiessen–ninth, (1:06.87), Kildow–17th (1:13.88), Wolf–20th (1:18.69) and Talamantes–30th (1:28.91)
Men’s 100-yard freestyle–Pettyjohn–ninth (58.13), McCormick–13th (1:00.47), junior Coby Peters–14th (1:01.51), Burleson–20th (1:07.48), Wall–28th (1:26.27) and Lonny Friesen–30th (1:36.51)
Men’s 500-yard freestyl–Madrid–eighth (6:46.91)
Women’s 200-yard freestyle relay–Kildow, Caro, Phillips and Thiessen–seventh (2:12.70), Talamantes, Loewen, Neufeld and senior Navil Hernandez–11th (2:37.13)
Men’s 200-yard freestyle relay –Burleson, Peters, McCormick and Pettyjohn–sixth (1:46.16)
Women’s 100-yard backstroke–Phillips–13th (1:24.09)
Men’s 100-yard backstroke Teichroeb–10th (1:14.37)
Women’s 100-yard breaststroke–Kildow–13th (1:32.45), Loewen–17th (1:50.15)
Men’s 100-yard breaststroke–Peters–15th (1:30.03), Bueckert–18th (1:38.52)
Men’s 400-yard freestyle relay–Burleson, Bueckert, Danny Friesen and Wall–ninth (4:30.31)
