Aqua Tribe hosts meet this weekend
Making time Junior Grecia Hermosillo Ortez swims her leg of the medley relay during the Big Spring Meet on Oct. 6. The relay took second in the season opener.
The Aqua Tribe will host its invitational today and tomorrow, but according to Coach Danielle Sims, winning is not a given.
“The home meet will be difficult,” Sims said. “We invited 12 teams to it.”
The team competed in the Keller meet on Dec. 4-5, taking fifth as a combined team with the Maidens in fourth and the Indians in sixth.
“I think I did well,” junior Aaron Espinoza said. “I look forward to the final meets of the season and hope to do well at district.”
The Aqua Tribe is working toward district on Jan. 22-23 in Andrews.
“District has always been very difficult,” Sims said. “We are combined with the 4A schools and the 5A schools as well.”
The swimmers want to shed some time before the district meet.
“The teams have already gotten better since the beginning of the season,” junior Steven Weeks said. “I really want to make it out of district this year. I was really close last year, and I want to redeem myself.”
Results–Keller invitational Dec. 5
Combined teams fifth overall (412 points)
Indians–sixth overall (134 points)
Maidens–fourth overall (278 points)
Women’s 200 medley relay–junior Kree Ellison, senior Madi Werner, junior Grecia Hermosillo Ortiz, junior Faith Klassen–fourth (2:21.22)
Women’s 200 freestyle–Klassen ninth (2:30.88), sophomore Paige Perryman 11th (2:39.58), freshman Anna Teichroeb 12th (2:40.74)
Men’s 200 freestyle–Espinoza seventh (2:23.75)
Women’s 200 individual medley– senior Kenzie Ivins 10th (2:53.87)
Women’s 50 freestyle–Werner second (27.28), Hermosillo Ortiz seventh (30.72), Klassen eighth (31.17), sophomore Meredith Rempel 11th (30.97)
Men’s 50 freestyle–freshman Gatlin Jones seventh (26.78), Weeks eighth (28.54)
Women’s 100 butterfly- Werner second (1:10.60) Women’s 100 Freestyle–Rempel 11th (1:09.23), Ellison 13th (1:10.58)
Men’s 100 freestyle–Jones sixth (58.91)
Women’s 500 freestyle–junior Lena Martens sixth (6:49.94), Teichroeb eighth (7:01.05), Ivins ninth (7:02.35), Perryman 11th (7:29.10)
Men’s 500 freestyle–Weeks third (5:59.49), Espinoza ninth (6:34.31)
Women’s 200 freestyle relay–Klassen, Ivins, Hermosillo ortiz and Werner third (1:58.9); Perryman, Teichroeb, Martens, Rempel eighth (2:14.9)
Men’s 200 freestyle relay– Espinoza, freshman Ethan Doubrava, Jones and Weeks fourth (1:55.1)
Men’s 100 backstroke–Doubrava 12th (1:23.06)
Women’s 100 breaststroke–junior Hannah Patterson 14th (1:44.73)
Women’s 400 freestyle relay–Ellison, Perryman, Martens and Ivins sixth (4:51.61); Teichroeb, sophomore Ashley James, junior Regina Froese and Rempel eighth (5:12.93)
Men’s 400 freestyle relay– Espinoza, Doubrava, Jones and Weeks sixth (1:18.00)
