Morgan Swimmers Compete at State

Morgan’s boys’ and girls’ swim teams traveled to Provo, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 16-17 to compete against 23 schools at the 3A/2A State Swim Championships. State was held in the pool in the Stephen L. Richards Building on the BYU Campus. The swimmers recorded eight new school records and 26 personal records (PRs) during the event, 19 of them coming on the first day of the event.

The top 16 teams or individuals advanced to the finals, and the Trojans had nine Top 8 or higher finishes, and the top individual placers were Elijah Pfeifer (7th-Boys 100 Freestyle), Connor Smith (7th-Boys 100 Backstroke) and Brielle Sill (7th-100 Breaststroke). Morgan’s highest finish was in the Boys 400 Free Relay with the team placing sixth.

In the team competition, the boys’ team finished sixth overall, and the girls finished 13th.

In the 200 Medley Relays, the girls placed eighth, and the boys finished tenth. The girls broke the school record in the 200 Medley with a time of 2:04.69. 

In the 400 Free Relay, the boys placed sixth and the girls recorded ninth place, and both toppled school records. The girls’ 4:14.53 set a new standard for the girls 400 Free Relay while the boys set their own record in 3:37.05.  

The Boys 200 Free Relay claimed seventh place and a school record time (1:37.89). 

Swimmer Garret Noorda recorded an eighth-place finish in the Boys 500 Freestyle and set a new school record (5:30.61). Noorda also set a new school record in the 200 Freestyle (2:01.31) and earned 14th place at state.

In the Girls 100 Backstroke, Tessa Smith placed 15th and in the boys’ event, her brother Connor placed seventh with Bode Johnson taking 14th. Connor Smith’s backstroke time broke the school record and put him atop the Trojan leaderboard (1:01.94).

In the Freestyle sprints, both Connelly Breinholt and Elijah Pfeifer placed in both events. In the 50 Free, Pfeifer earned eighth place and Breinholt 14th. Pfeifer bettered his position in the 100 Free by one position taking seventh while Breinholt claimed 14th in the 100 as well.

Brielle Sill and Lizzy Bess touched one after the other in the 100 Breaststroke to earn seventh and eighth places, respectively. In an earlier head, Bess broke the school record for the breaststroke (1:14.84).

In the Girls 200 Individual Medley race, Bess finished 12th and Sill 14th.

Congratulations to the swim team on a great season. They will wrap up their season and celebrate their successes at their Swim Banquet on Feb. 28.  λ