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Last home meet a winner
Andrews swim
team strikes gold in relays
ANDREWS – Local swimmers, fans, and families
welcomed two teams of the Mountain Swim League to their
home pool in Andrews July 10.
The Andrews Swim Team hosted this Tri-team meet against
Jackson County and Waynesville on the same day due to
a prior cancellation date by Waynesville earlier in
the season.
Andrews strokers competed against some experienced swimmers
in the league between the two opposing teams and showed
once again even in their Cinderella season, they should
not to be taken lightly.
Andrews took the gold in two team relay events and grabbed
eight individual first place ribbons.
Newcomer to the sport, Erin Maennle 9, placed first
in nearly every event she swam and qualifed for the
all-star meet.
Jeremy Brannon, Adrian Garcia, Fabian Garcia and Dylan
Rogers also qualified for the all-star time regulations.
Zack Long placed first in the 11-12 year-old boys 50-yard
breaststroke event and Jordan Pavelka swam to first
in the 13-14 year-old boys 100-yard breastroke.
Andrews will not be hosting any more events this season,
but they do have two more meets before the conference
meet and all-star event.
“I have been surprised at the skills these kids
have developed, mostly from the work that their parents
have done with them at home in their own pools while
not at practice,” Andrews head coach Mike Brannon
said. “They’ve really come a long way already.
We’ll be looking forward to getting back to practice
and readying for the next meet.”
The Andrews Swim Team will go to Waynesville next to
face the Waynesville and Murphy swim teams Thursday,
July 17.
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MY TURN:
Andrews
swimmer Ariah Brown, 7, anxiously awaits her turn,
encouraging her teammate Joanna Weaver, 7, to get
to the wall. This was Ariah’s first meet this
season helping her team to place second in the girls
8 and under 100-yard medley relay event.
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