Bobcat swimmers waltz past North
MHS girls make quick work of Polar Bears
T-R PHOTO BY NOAH ROHLFING - Marshalltown senior Maeve Janssen cuts through the water on her way to a win in the 100-yard breaststroke during Tuesday’s Iowa Alliance Conference swimming and diving meet against Des Moines North at the MHS pool. Janssen won the event in a time of 1 minute, 29.37 seconds, and the Bobcats beat the Polar Bears 133-42.
A quick meet for the Marshalltown girls’ swimming and diving team on Tuesday evening ahead of the Bobcat Invite on Saturday turned out pretty well for coach Angie Nelson and her squad.
The Bobcats rolled to a 133-42 team victory over the Des Moines North Polar Bears in a home meet used to get the Marshalltown swimmers plenty of opportunities to grow and get competitive practice ahead of this weekend’s 10-team tournament.
Marshalltown won all but two events — the 400-yard freestyle relay in which the Bobcats’ group of Riley Robinson, Ally Fisher, Jorja Janssen and Amiaha Weatherly swam a 5 minute, 6.94 second race. Meredith Kodis, Grace Bethel, Kaisa Stanley and Elizabeth Johnson finished third for the Bobcats. In the backstroke, Clara Cunningham took the win for the Polar Bears ahead of Maisie Gummert.
The wins were many for the Bobcats, which began with the 200 medley relay and the group of Libby Meyer, Rachel Case, Averie Wittkop and Morgan Bear taking the win in 2:19.51. Robinson, Leticia Herrera, Lesli Waltermire and Janssen finished second in 2:21.20.
Waltermire took the win in the 200 freestyle with a 2:18.15 time, while Wittkop was the top finisher in the 200 IM with a time of 2:30.97.
T-R PHOTO BY NOAH ROHLFING - Marshalltown senior Riley Robinson swims the opening leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay during Tuesday’s home meet against Des Moines North.
Nelson said this was a good chance to spread swimmers around early in the season and give them a chance in events they don’t usually swim in.
“This is a good meet, it gives the girls some opportunities to swim things they won’t normally swim,” Nelson said. “We’ve got some young ones where we’re still trying to figure out what they can do and what they can do really well, and so we can’t do that unless we move them around.
“We can see them in practice but we really need to see them in a meet setting.”
Gummert was the winner in the 50 free with a 29.48, followed by Weatherly’s 31.16.
Wittkop added to her victories with a strong time of 1:06.75 in the 100 fly. Robinson was second in the event and Herrera finished in third for the Bobcats to get a clean 1-2-3 sweep.
In the 100 free it was another 1-2-3 sweep thanks to Maeve Janssen’s time of 1:00.91, Case’s 1:08.38 in second and Fisher in third with a 1:20.41.
Waltermire took a convincing win in the 500 free with a 6:09.52, while in the 200 free relay the group of Meyer, Stanley, Fisher and Wittkop won with a time of 2:04.74 and Gummert, Mia Giannetto, Abby Tollefson and Waltermire finished third with a 2:06.89.
Maeve Janssen won in a rare attempt at the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:29.37.
In diving, Tollefson won with a score of 283.35. Stanley finished second at 242.85 while Kiersten Randall was third with a score of 189.7.
The win gives the Bobcats some confidence heading into a very difficult invite, in which Nelson said she hasn’t yet decided the best way to maximize the Bobcats’ points potential.
“I just have to look over at where we can score the best,” Nelson said. “I am excited for some of our veteran swimmers to get out there and have some awesome competition, because we’ve had a few meets where we have good competition but we just need more of that.”
Diving for the Bobcat Invite starts at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, with swimming events getting underway at 12:30 p.m. at the Marshalltown YMCA.
Marshalltown 133, Des Moines North 42
At Marshalltown
EVENT RESULTS
(Champion plus MHS placewinners)
200 MEDLEY RELAY — 1. MHS (Meyer, Case, Wittkop, Bear) 2:19.51; 2. MHS (Robinson, Herrera, Waltermire, J. Janssen) 2:21.20.
200 FREESTYLE — 1. Lesli Waltermire, MHS, 2:18.15; 3. Meredith Kodis, MHS, 2:39.31; 5. Jorja Janssen, MHS, 3:20.04.
200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY — 1. Averie Wittkop, MHS, 2:30.97; 2. Libby Meyer, MHS, 3:03.79.
50 FREESTYLE — 1. Maisie Gummert, MHS, 29.48; 2. Amiaha Weatherly, MHS, 31:16; 3. Riley Robinson, MHS, 31.70.
DIVING — 1. Abby Tollefson 283.35; 2. Kaisa Stanley 242.85; 3. Kiersten Randall 189.70.
100 BUTTERFLY — 1. Wittkop, MHS, 1:06.75; 2. Robinson, MHS, 1:22.58; 3. Leticia Herrera, MHS, 1:29.52.
100 FREESTYLE — 1. Maeve Janssen, MHS, 1:00.91; 2. Rachel Case, MHS, 1:08.38; 3. Ally Fisher, MHS, 1:20.41.
500 FREESTYLE — 1. Waltermire, MHS, 6:09.52; 2. Weatherly, MHS, 7:18.68; 3. Kodis, MHS, 7:36.54.
200 FREESTYLE RELAY — 1. MHS (Meyer, Stanley, Fisher, Wittkop) 2:04.74; 3. MHS (Gummbert, Giannetto, Tollefson, Waltermire) 2:06.89.
100 BACKSTROKE — 1. Clara Cunningham, DMN, 1:15.73; 2. Gummert, MHS, 1:19.75; 3. Herrera, MHS, 1:30.74; 4. Fisher, MHS, 1:38.92.
100 BREASTSTROKE — 1. M. Janssen, MHS, 1:29.37; 3. Meyer, MHS, 1:45.77; 4. Morgan Bear, MHS, 1:54.56.
400 FREESTYLE RELAY — 1. DMN (Cunningham, Rice, Labresh, Ballenger-Hudson) 4:52.05; 2. MHS (Robinson, Fisher, J. Janssen, Weatherly) 5:06.94; 3. MHS (Kodis, Bethel, Stanley, Johnson) 5:51.84.
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- T-R PHOTO BY NOAH ROHLFING – Marshalltown senior Maeve Janssen cuts through the water on her way to a win in the 100-yard breaststroke during Tuesday’s Iowa Alliance Conference swimming and diving meet against Des Moines North at the MHS pool. Janssen won the event in a time of 1 minute, 29.37 seconds, and the Bobcats beat the Polar Bears 133-42.
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- T-R PHOTO BY NOAH ROHLFING – Marshalltown senior Riley Robinson swims the opening leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay during Tuesday’s home meet against Des Moines North.
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