Trojans Rule The Pool In Route To 9th Straight Conference Title

The Plainwell High School Girl's Swimming and Diving Team dominated the Southwestern & Central Michigan Conference Championship Meet on Saturday with an impressive 589 points. The Trojans won 8 of 12 events and had many swimmers and divers in the championship heats. The girls had a very impressive 15 All-Conference performers as a result of their team-inspired victory. Coaches John Dubois, Tara Cornell, and Lynne Seiber took their regular victory plunge into the pool after the 1st place trophy presentation. The Trojans were supported by tremendous fan and parent support as well as an electric environment at the Allegan pool. Plainwell showed its talent and team depth with an inspired effort on both days.

Lindsay Wiederhold and Mallory Comerford continued their winning ways with two individual victories. These two dominated their events and put quite a distance between themselves and the 2nd place competitor with Mallory bettering her two school records. Kim Jones and Cameron Monroe owned the diving event as they have all season long with a variety of high difficulty dives. Their outstanding 1-2 performance was a proud tribute to their late coach, Dr. Frank Newman. Blair Cornell won the Breastroke event as she has all season as well. Megan VanderBoon and Ally Seiler had state cuts in the preliminaries in the 100 Butterfly and 100 Backstroke respectively. The 200 Medley Relay and 400 Free Relay were also victorious and the 200 Free Relay was touched out by 0.11 seconds and took 2nd place. Kelsey Ernst, Aaryn Jewell and Karlynn VanSlambrouck had great swims and also earned All-Confererence status in their individual events. Other great perfomances were turned in by Molly Boylan, Haley Childress, Audrey VanderBoon, Angel Liceaga, Karlee Gauthier, and Teresa Thiel.

The team has 10 representatives for the Division 3 State Meet on November 18th and 19th at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. They will look forward to compete with the best swimmers and divers in the state. Best of luck to the girls and come out and cheer them to a high finish! Go Trojans!

Team Results:
Plainwell 589
Allegan 459
Alma 391
Otsego 257
Kalamazoo Hackett 214
South Haven 186
Albion 165

Plainwell Finishes:

200 Medley Relay
A. VanderBoon, Cornell, Thiel, Comerford 1st 1:55.47
Seiler, Gauthier, M. VanderBoon, Boylan 5th 2:02.01
Liceaga, Hochstedler, Lash, Kelly For Place 2:17.42

200 Freestyle
Wiederhold 1st 1:59.18
Ernst 7th 2:12.15
Vanslambrouck 9th 2:15.30
Childress 13th 2:19.62

200 IM
Cornell 4th 2:26.78
M. VanderBoon 6th 2:28.12
Boylan 9th 2:34.11
Gauthier 12th 2:41.86

50 Freestyle
Comerford 1st :24.25
Thiel 5th :26.71
Jewell 8th :27.04
Kelly 14th :29.38

Diving
Jones 1st 426.0
Monroe 2nd 402.3

100 Butterfly
Thiel 3rd 1:04.35
M. VanderBoon 4th 1:04.78
Ernst 7th 1:12.16
Liceaga 1:17.40

100 Freestyle
Jewell 5th :58.97
A. VanderBoon 6th :59.24
Seiler 8th :59.51

500 Freestyle
Wiederhold 1st 5:20.55
Vanslambrouck 6th 5:58.88
Boylan 7th 6:01.18
Childress 12th 6:12.88

200 Free Relay
M. VanderBoon, Cornell, Thiel, Wiederhold 2nd 1:46.78
Jewell, Childress, Vanslambrouck, Ernst 5th 1:54.46
Mills, Oakes, Kelly, Loftus For Place 2:00.01

100 Backstroke
Comerford 1st :58.22
A. VanderBoon 4th 1:06.05
Seiler 8th 1:07.94
Liceaga 13th 1:17.82

100 Breastroke
Cornell 1st 1:11.06
Gauthier 7th 1:20.84
Hochstedler 12th 1:25.99

400 Free Relay
Jewell, A. VanderBoon, Wiederhold, Comerford 1st 3:46.19
Seiler, Vanslambrouck, Ernst, Boylan 6th 4:05.23
Townsend, Oakes, Grote, Lash 14th 4:37.00