On Wednesday , Nov. 29 the 1A Highlands boys and girls varsity swim teams traveled to Waynesville to swim against 3A Pisgah, 3A Tuscola and the Trailblazers.
The boys not only won, they more than doubled the score of all of the other teams, including the much larger 3A schools. Highlands 137, Asheville Trailblazers 65, Tuscola 52, Pisgah 41.
The one person Highlands girls team of Tate Wilson finished 3rd, ahead of Pisgah by winning the 50 and 500 Freestyle.
The Highlanders had three of the top scorers in the quad meet. In addition to Wilson, Finneaus Garner won the 50 and 100 free, and Chase Kenter won the 500 free and the 100 backstroke. All three scored 18 points. Garner qualified for Western North Carolina Regionals in February in both of his events, and Kenter in the 500. Wilson qualified for consideration for Regionals in her 2 events and Kenter in the 100 back.
The boys won 8 of the 10 events that they entered.
Kenter, Anaih McKim, Jack Sumner, and Garner won the 200 Medley Relay and qualified for Regionals. Sumner won and qualified for Regionals in the 200 IM (Individual Medley) and consideration in the 100 Breaststroke . McKim swam consideration times in the 100 Breast and the 100 Butterfly.
The relay team of Paolo McRae, Sumner, Conner Hughes, and Aniah McKim won the 200 Free Relay. Hughes also won the 100 Fly qualifying for Regionals and swam a consideration time in the 50 free. McRae swam Regional Consideration times in the 200 IM and the 100 Free.
In the 400 Free Relay the team of McRae, Hughes, Kenter and Garner won and swam a Regional Consideration time.
The most improved swimmer of the meet for Highlands was Jesus Mendoza-Tentle who dropped five seconds off of his 50 free time and 13 seconds from his 100 free time.