Sweet Home’s swim teams opened their season Friday, Nov. 3, hosting a non-scoring relay meet against Jefferson, Marist, Stayton, Central and Sisters Friday.
“As a team we’re a little behind where we were at this time a year ago,” said Coach Doug Peargin.
Peargin said he attributes some of that to the fact that the Huskies lost several experienced seniors to graduation last June.
He said that swimmers on the boys side with personal-best times were Cole Stumbaugh, Sebass Mauer, Travis Ramoz, Michael Simmons, Shelby Johnston, David Worthen, Trever Byers, Marcus DeLong, Za Ramsey, Brinden Sanders and Jayce Calhoon.
The Husky boys had five teams finish first, in the 200 medley relay (Kieran Schaefer, Peter VanDerlip, Stumbaugh and Mauer), the 4×100 IM Relay (Ramoz, Stumbaugh, Shawn Adams and Schaefer), the 200 butterfly relay (Michael Simmons, Calhoon, Schaefer and Brinden Sanders), the 200 backstroke relay (Jon Lemar, Worthen, Stumbaugh and Calhoon) and the 400 freestyle (Lemar, Adams, Sanders and Calhoon) relay teams.
For the girls, Sara Rosa, Laura Gourley, Faith Helfrich, Katie Kinney, Tashina Davis and Tee Whaley had personal-best marks.
First-place finishers for the girls were teams in the 200 freestyle relay (Davis, Helfrich, Rosa and Justine Calhoon), the 200 backstroke relay (Gourley, Kinney, Tiffany Traeger and Rosa), and the 400 freestyle relay (Norajean Lemar, Calhoon, Nichole Martin and Jessica Trautwein).
The Huskies will be back in action Thursday, Dec. 7, at the Philomath Relays.