By: Griffin Callaghan | [email protected] | November 12, 2024
River Ridge’s swim team picked up its second overall win of the young 2024-25 season last Thursday at the Cherokee Aquatic Center.
The Knights claimed the victory with 282.5 points, beating out second-place Sequoyah (259.5 points) and third-place Etowah (250). River Ridge topped the girls’ scoreboard with 182.5 points, while the Chiefs led the boys’ category with 152 points.
For the first-place River Ridge girls, Jersey Saylor, Ava Hoynowski and Maja Brooker all accounted for a team-best 14 points.
Saylor won her 100 freestyle race and finished second in the 200 IM. She led first and second-place relay teams in the 400 and 200 freestyle relays, respectively. Her relay teammates included Hoynowski, Brooker, Macie Portis, Addison Hodgins and Sofia Valenzuela.
Hoynowski swam in two first-place relays between the 400 freestyle and 200 medley while taking first in the 100 backstroke and second in the lengthy 500 freestyle. Brooker’s first-place event was the 100 butterfly.
The Etowah girls finished second, led by Luiza Carvalho, Kate Dallas, Kiera Martin and Emma Reed with eight points each. Carvalho and Reed combined with Blaire Sherrer and Olivia Dwyer to take second place in the 400 freestyle relay.
Lainey Blase and Olivia Parks headlined the third-place Sequoyah with 16 points. They notched two individual wins each, with Blase winning the 500 and 50 freestyle events and Parks topping the 200 IM and 100 breaststroke charts.
Gracelee Lowry added 10.5 points for the Chiefs.
On the boys’ side, Sequoyah earned the crown behind 16-point days from Mason Thomas, Grant Harrison and Caden Alindogan. All three swimmers won every event they competed in, including the 200 medley and 200 freestyle relays alongside teammate Henry Yon.
Mason Reed and Jacob Howell were the high-point scorers from Etowah with 14 and 13, respectively. Reed finished first in the 200 IM and second in the 100 backstroke. Howell won his 50 freestyle race and took third in the 100 backstroke.
River Ridge’s Skyler Cook and Logan Dunn were its leaders, with Dunn taking second in the 200 IM and Cook securing third in the 200 and 100 freestyle races.
Tri-Meet Scoreboard
Combined
River Ridge – 282.5
Sequoyah – 259.5
Etowah – 250
Girls
River Ridge – 182.5
Etowah – 109
Sequoyah 107.5
Boys
Sequoyah – 152
Etowah – 141
River Ridge – 100
