SHS Swim team at APS Invite

The Socorro High School swim teams traveled to Albuquerque for the APS Invite #4 at Highland High School on Wednesday, Dec. 10. SHS swimmers will be traveling for all of their meets this year. They practice at the New Mexico Tech pool because it has the bubble for winter swimming, but swim meets will not be held there as the pool is not Olympic sized. This has not prevented Socorro’s swimmers from producing excellent results at away meets though. 

Nine boys and four girls competed at the APS Invite #4, and they came away with many top-ten finishes.  Socorro was third overall with two golds, three silvers, two bronzes and a score of 227. Riley Sewell earned both of those golds, one silver in a relay, and one bronze in a relay to help with 40 of the team’s points. Multiple swimmers achieved personal bests (PB) that day as well.

Notable results:

Boys (times in minutes: seconds): 

200 yard medley relay: SHS was third place, 2:00.06.

50 yard freestyle: Riley Sewell, first, 24.46 (PB); James Tartis, 29th, 38.45 (PB).

100 yard freestyle: Riley Sewell, first, 53.88 (PB); Ben Watkins, third, 56.06; Connor Johnston, fifth, 1:04.17.

200 yard freestyle: Dymek Arendt, 10th, 2:52.60.

200 yard freestyle relay: team A got second place, 1:45.09

100 yard backstroke: Ben Watkins, second, 1:15.07 (PB); Rylan Hicks, fourth, 1:27.53 (PB); Dymek Arendt, fifth, 1:29.95 (PB); James Tartis, ninth, 2:01.88.

100 yard breast stroke: Connor Johnston, second, 1:18.45.

Girls:

200 yard freestyle: Abby Cadol, fourth, 2:41.84.

100 yard backstroke: Abby Cadol, sixth, 1:24.69.

See complete results here: https://www.swimcloud.com/results/366646/

Other recent and upcoming meets:

12/13 APS Invite at West Mesa H.S.

The results were not available yet for the Socorro swimmers, but will be posted here: https://www.swimcloud.com/results/367071/

12/20 Away at Cleveland H.S. in Rio Rancho.