Yorktown held off Mt. Vernon and Pendleton Heights to capture both Shelby Relays championship trophies Saturday afternoon at Shelbyville High School.
The Yorktown girls won five of the 11 relay races contested to collect 136 points. Pendleton Heights was runner-up at 122 points followed by Mt. Vernon (104), Columbus East (100), Shelbyville (82), Batesville (46) and Hagerstown 16).
Yorktown captured four wins and four runner-up finishes to amass 140 points in the boys event. Mt. Vernon was second at 124 while Pendleton Heights placed third (114). Shelbyville finished fourth (80) ahead of Batesville (78) and Hagerstown (42).
“Overall, I was extremely happy,” said Shelbyville head coach Coen Weiler. “We’ve had a lot of conversations this whole season just talking about the size of our team in relation to where we’ve been in the past. We are a little bit small in numbers but we’ve really come together as a unit.
“If you look at that final boys relay, we were the only team left with everybody out on the deck, with everybody engaged, with everybody into it. That’s what we’ve been trying to drive home is developing that sense of camaraderie and cheering people on and being into it when there are only 19 total. We are really getting that figured out and today really showed it.”
The Golden Bears produced one event win in the boys 200 freestyle relay. Trey Carrell, Andrew Duffy, Tristin Maloney and Will Rife (main photo) bested the field with a time of 1:39.72.
On the boys side, Shelbyville also got runner-up finishes in the 200 medley relay (Rife, Carrell, Maloney and Duffy (photo), 1:52.26) and the 100 freestyle relay (Elijah von Werder, Blake Hughes, Gaige Harker and Beau Kenkel, 53.45).
In the girls event, Shelbyville also produced a pair of runner-up finishes.
Lexi Dwiggins (photo), Riley Everette, Paige Bohman and Naomi Garringer finished second in the 375 freestyle relay in 4:11.8.
Bohman and Naomi Garringer teamed with Meeghen Bushfield and Miriam Garringer to place second in the 100 freestyle relay in 52.04.
Shelbyville has two more home meets on the 2022 portion of the schedule – Tuesday with East Central and Dec. 29 with Batesville and Chatard.
The 2023 schedule begins with the Hoosier Heritage Conference Meet on Jan. 6-7. The Golden Bears got a preview of the competition Saturday with Yorktown, Mt. Vernon and Pendleton Heights all competing in the relays-only event. Greenfield-Central also will be formidable at the HHC event at New Palestine.
With state qualifiers Karissa Hamilton and Marlee Rice lost to graduation, the Shelbyville girls program is building around veteran Miriam Garringer and a talented freshman class.
“Right now, we are trying to figure out what high school swimming is a little bit,” said Weiler. “I think after Christmas break when they’ve gone through some real rigorous Christmas break training, I think it will really change where their mindset is at and get them to realize where they are at talent wise and that will pay off big time at the end of this season and really build into the next season.”
Miriam Garringer, a junior, finished fourth in the 200 freestyle sectional championship race as sophomore.
“She has really stepped up in skill and ability and confidence in herself,” said Weiler. “I think everyone looks at her as a significant leader and really follows her example. I think she is really flourishing in that role.”
The program also has 2021 regional-qualifying diver Maiah Helfer-Vazquez back competing after missing most of the 2022 season.
“We worked hard those first couple of meets getting her back on the (diving) board and being confident, getting rid of any doubts from having to miss a full year for things out of her control,” said Weiler. “Last week, she broke through breaking her career personal record by seven points. This early in the season, I think that is huge for her.”
While the girls program was bolstered by the addition of six freshmen, the boys program has a more veteran presence without the addition of a single freshman.
The eight-member boys program features four seniors, two juniors and two sophomores.
Senior Trey Carrell and junior Will Rife competed in the 2022 state finals and are back leading the Golden Bears.
“This season you can really tell as a senior and knowing he is No. 1 or No. 2 with him and Will battling back and forth, you can really tell Trey is taking himself really seriously and setting the standard for the rest of the boys,” said Weiler.
“Will, right now, is looking really, really good,” said Weiler. “He is on the times that we didn’t see (last year) until well after Christmas break and going into the sectional. He has already beaten his entry time for sectional last year significantly. I am really excited to see what we can get out of him at the conference meet.”
Shelby Relays
Boys results
Yorktown 140, Mt. Vernon 124, Pendleton Heights 114, Shelbyville 80, Batesville 78, Hagerstown 42
200 medley relay: 1. YT 1:50.61; 2. SH (Rife, Carrell, Maloney, Duffy) 1:52.26; 3. MV 2:00.17; 4. PH 2:27.68; 5. HT 2:44.51.
800 freestyle relay: 1. YT 7:42.68; 2. PH 8:59.88; 3. HT 9:13.32; 4. MV 9:34.82; 5. BV 10:57.33.
400 medley relay: 1. MV 3:46.85; 2. PH 4:04.74; 3. YT 4:15.05; 4. SH (Carrell, Duffy, Rife, von Werder) 4:21.03; 5. BV 5:25.54.
375 freestyle relay: 1. YT 3:31.51; 2. BV 3:32.06; 3. PH 3:38.75; 4. SH (Harker, Hughes, Kenkel, von Werder) 4:20.09; 5. HT 4:23.06; 6. MV 4:24.72.
150 butterfly relay: 1. PH 1:16.34; 2. YT 1:17.24; 3. SH (Carrell, Maloney, Rife) 1:20.77; 4. BV 1:26.27; 5. MV 1:38.23.
100 freestyle relay: 1. MV 41.88; 2. SH (von Werder, Hughes, Harker, Kenkel) 53.45; 3. PH 54.57; 4. YT 57.72; 5. BV 1:01.06; 6. HT 1:02.08.
1000 freestyle relay: 1. YT 10:17.01; 2. HT 11:15.77; 3. BV 11:37.85; 4. MV 12:27.11; 5. PH 12:36.64.
200 freestyle relay: 1. SH (Carrell, Duffy, Maloney, Rife) 1:39.72; 2. YT 1:45.01; 3. PH 1:54.95; 4. MV 2:11.9; 5. BV 2:17.16.
150 backstroke relay: 1. MV 1:17.8; 2. PH 1:21.79; 3. YT 1:22.54; 4. BV 1:51.58; 5. SH (Harker, Hughes, Kenkel) 1:54.67; 6. HT 1:57.61.
150 breaststroke relay: 1. MV 1:27.04; 2. YT 1:32.49; 3. BV 1:36.73; 4. PH 1:43.66.
400 freestyle relay: 1. MV 3:25.79; 2. YT 3:36.63; 3. PH 3:38.55; 4. SH (Maloney, Duffy, Kenkel, von Werder) 4:00.48; 5. BV 4:38.96.
Girls results
Yorktown 136, Pendleton Heights 122, Mt. Vernon 104, Columbus East 100, Shelbyville 82, Batesville 46, Hagerstown 16
200 medley relay: 1. YT 2:08.75; 2. CE 2:13.03; 3. MV 2:13.36; 4. SHS (N. Garringer, Bushfield, Everette, Bohman) 2:13.52; 5. BV 2:18.21; 6. PH 2:30.83; 7. HT 2:39.91
800 freestyle relay: 1. YT 8:35.61; 2. PH 8:36.21; 3. CE 10:27.36; 4. MV 10:27.74; 5. BV 12:04.2.
400 medley relay: 1. PH 4:35.41; 2. MV 4:35.68; 3. CE 4:51.14; 4. YT 5:03.01; 5. BV 5:14.64; 6. SH (Wheelhouse, Dwiggins, Stader, Conners) 5:48.95.
375 freestyle relay: 1. PH 3:53.85; 2. SH (Dwiggins, Everette, Bohman, N. Garringer) 4:11.8; 3. CE 4:25.63; 4. YT 4:36.58; 5. HT 4:43.6; 6. BV 5:18.77.
150 butterfly relay: 1. YT 1:24.1; 2. PH 1:30.67; 3. SH (Bushfield, Everette, M. Garringer) 1:32.2; 4. CE 1:32.72; 5. MV 1:46.28; 6. BV 1:47.15.
100 freestyle relay: 1. MV 50.1; 2. SH (Bohman, Bushfield, N. Garringer, M. Garringer) 52.04; 3. YT 1:00.08; 4. CE 1:00.47; 5. HT 1:01.05; 6. BV 1:03.2; 7. PH 1:04.09.
1000 freestyle relay: 1. PH 11:40.32; 2. YT 11:47.17; 3. CE 12:20.84; 4. MV 13:44.93; 5. SH (Conners, Wheelhouse) 15:15.71.
200 freestyle relay: 1. PH 1:53.33; 2. MV 1:54.62; 3. YT 2:01.31; 4. SH (Stader, Conners, Wheelhouse, Dwiggins) 2:13.53; 5. CE 2:14.18; 6. BV 2:14.3; 7. HT 2:15.61.
150 backstroke relay: 1.YT 1:37.57; 2. MV 1:38.34; 3. CE 1:41.26; 4. BV 1:52.31; 5. SH (Stader, Conners, Wheelhouse) 2:06.34.
150 breaststroke relay: 1. YT 1:48.02; 2. PH 1:49.13; 3. CE 1:49.64; 4. MV 2:01.55; 5. SH (Dwiggins, M. Garringer, Bushfield) 2:02.43; 6. BV 2:10.43.
400 freestyle relay: 1. PH 4:01.13; 2. MV 4:03.45; 3. SH (Bohman, Everette, N. Garringer, M. Garringer) 4:10.79; 4. YT 4:20.86; 5. CE 4:35.76.
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