IHSA 2024 girls swimming sectional results for the Springfield area

Nov 10, 2024

Chatham Glenwood took second place as a team but did not advance an individual or a relay to the Illinois High School Association girls state swimming and diving finals.

Glenwood finished with 199 points behind first-place Edwardsville, which piled up 330 points on Saturday at the Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center of the Edwardsville Sectional.

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The state finals are Nov. 15-16 at the FMC Natatorium in Westmont. A swimmer must win an event or beat the state qualifying time to advance. Divers must win the event or be among the top 32 sectional scores to receive an at-large berth.

Both Springfield High and Sacred Heart-Griffin also failed to qualify an individual or relay to state in Edwardsville. At Normal West, Addison Wherley of Petersburg PORTA didn't qualify and got ninth in the 200 freestyle (2:18.07).

Glenwood sophomore Kylie Sullens placed fifth in the 200 IM in 2 minutes, 15.31 seconds with the qualifying time sitting at 2:10.54. She was fourth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:10.34, missing the cut of 1:07.17.

Senior Erin Turk finished eighth in the 200 freestyle (2:03.35) and third in the 500 freestyle (5:23.24). The state times are 1:56.21 and 5:13.64 for the 200 and 500, respectively.

Junior Maddy Yom had a time of 1:00.64 for third place in the 100 breaststroke with the time to advance at 58.38. Yom was seventh in the 50 freestyle (25.67) and the state cut is 24.38.

Sophomore Laynie Ryan, who has come on lately for Glenwood, took sixth place in the 100 freestyle in 56.86 with the cut at 52.98, and senior Ashleigh Maender was seventh in 56.91 in the same event. Ryan then came in fourth place in the 100 backstroke (state time of 58.56) in 1:04.31 ahead of senior teammate Hannah Poppenhouse (1:04.68, who finished fifth. In addition, Poppenhouse was sixth in the 500 free (5:42.42) and Maender was eighth in the 50 free (26.13).

The last time Glenwood sent an individual swimmer to state was in 2015 when Alexis Preski advanced in the 500 free and 100 breast and teammate Sharon Kok made it in the 100 free.

Glenwood junior Delaney Batton finished second with a score of 342.05 and did not receive an at-large bid in 1-meter diving. Edwardsville’s McLaren Seaton won the event with 373.20. Freshman diver Marlow Burger of New Berlin was third with 341.75, followed by SHG senior Olivia Paul, who grabbed fourth place with 309.40. Springfield junior Reese Jennings, the City Meet champion, placed fifth with a score of 306.80.

Glenwood’s best chance for a state berth came in the 200 freestyle relay when Sullens, Yom, Maender and Turk broke a school record. The foursome touched in second place in 1:41.27, breaking last year’s mark of 1:42.22. The qualifying time is 1:39.00, and Edwardsville won the race in 1:35.41.

Springfield and SHG can look to the future after finishing fourth and fifth with 77 and 49 points, respectively.

Springfield freshman Chloe Scheffler was seventh in the 100 back (1:05.33) and 10th in the 200 free (2:11.87), while junior Abby Myers took eighth in the 100 fly (1:08.40). With Scheffler, Myers, Miriam O’Brien and sophomore Lila Martin, the Senators were fourth and fifth in the 200 and 400 freestyle relays.

SHG junior Hope Speiser turned in another good swim in the 50 free and placed sixth in 25.44 before finishing 11th in the 100 breaststroke (1:15.54). Speiser had a time of 25.72 in the 50 free at City.

Junior Karigan Books was ninth in the 200 IM (2:26.59) and freshman Paityn Brady took 10th in the 100 butterfly (1:09.20). Brady, also on the cross country team, finished in 12th place at the Class 1A state meet in Peoria earlier in the day.

Books, sophomore Corrine Secrist, Brady and Speiser, led SHG to a fifth-place showing in the 200 free relay (1:52.82).

Springfield has not had an individual swimmer reach state since 2016 when graduate Caitlin Tierney made it in the 100 and 200 freestyles as a senior, and Haley Rivera advanced in the 200 IM as a junior.

Olivia Viele was the last SHG swimmer to reach state when she advanced in the 100 butterfly as a sophomore in 2018.

Overall, 21 times that were turned in beat the state qualifying standards and three pool records were set.

Edwardsville, which won the 200 medley and 200 and 400 freestyle relays, shattered the state times and established a pool record in the medley and 200 free. Junior Alyssa Albertyn of O’Fallon set a pool record in the 100 freestyle with a time of 49.94. The previous record was 50.96.

By event, the 200 freestyle had four swimmers qualify for state. The 200 IM and 100 breaststroke had three apiece, while the 100 butterfly, 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke had two each.