The Batesville swim team continued their quest for a 12th straight undefeated regular season by swimming past Hidden Valley 1,067-587 at Batesville Memorial Pool.
The win pushed the Stingrays record to 4-0 on the season with two meets remaining before the conference championships.
“The team is getting stronger with every meet,” coach TJ Greene commented. “There is such a fine line between getting the kids enough yardage to get them in shape and teaching the proper technique along the way.
“Coach Schuerman, Schwettman, Gutzwiller and Manriquez have done a great job with the younger kids in just three weeks of pool time,” he added.
The boys 13-14 medley relay (Lamping, Weiler, Timonera, Hatcher) set a new team record and missed a 20-year-old pool record by just one second. The same four boys teamed up to break the team and pool record in the 160 yard freestyle relay.
Audrey Rozman (18 and under) became the new team record holder in the 80 yard freestyle as she swam to a first place finish with a time of 46.22 (Niezer 2004, Rozman 2009, 46.27).
Chrissy Wanstrath (14 and under) continued her onslaught of the 80 yard breaststroke. She broke her own team and pool record for the fourth consecutive meet (55.32).
Bryce Timonera (14 and under) became the first swimmer in the history of Batesville Memorial Pool to swim the 80 yard freestyle in under 40 seconds (39.25). He set new records in the 40 yard freestyle, 80 yard freestyle and 80 yard butterfly.
Whitney Drew (8 and under) swam to a first place finish in the 25 yard backstroke (30.71), while Teddy Geis (12 and under, 31.59) and Emily Gutzwiller (10 and under, 31.93) did the same in the 40 yard butterfly. Jonathan Kunkel (10 and under) was a four-time winner in his events (40 free, 40 back, 40 fly, 80 free) as was Timonera and Andi Cox (14 and under 200 free, 40 free, 80 back, 80 fly).
The biggest improvement of the meet was turned in by Marissa Fullenkamp. She dropped 38.24 seconds in the 25 yard breaststroke.
Other big improvements included Carlie Werner, (8 and under, 28.89 seconds in the 25 yard breast stroke), Nate Geis (6 and under, 24.23 seconds in the 25 yard freestyle),Erin Hankel (18 and under, 20.71 seconds in the 200 freestyle),Steacy Gryspeerdt (14 and under, 18.77 seconds in the 80 yard freestyle, Mary Gutzwiller (age 13-14, 15.63 seconds in the 80 yard freestyle, Thomas Raver (6 and under, 17.04 seconds in the 25 yard freestyle) and Sarah Poltrack (10 and under, 14.21 seconds in the 160 yard individual medley).
