Oskaloosa Boys Swim Team Compete Against Centerville and Ottumwa

by Rachel Brown

The Boys Swim Team competed last night in a Triad against Centerville and Ottumwa @ Ottumwa. They were able to come home with one win last night against Centerville moving to 2-2 on the season!

There are two swimmers I would like to highlight from the meet last night, senior Landon Briggs and freshman Jackson Phillips-Sisul. Landon had life time best swims in all of his events last night. He went a 24.99 in the 50 free and 58.05 in the 100 free. After taking a year off from swimming and just coming off of an ankle injury I am super proud of these times so early in the season. I look forward to Landon continuing to improve as he pushes himself throughout the season. Freshman Jackson, is beingin to show that he is a very versatile swimmer. No matter what events I put him in he takes them with stride. He did exactly that last night in the 200 yard freestyle and 500 yard freestyle. These are the two longest events in a swim meet and he went out and competed in some great swimming. He was able to place 3rd in the 200 and 2nd in the 500!

Other highlights from the meet: (bold is season best, * is lifetime best)

200 Medley placed 2nd (Roberts, Rupprecht, Briggs, Scholes)
200 Freestyle: 3rd Philips-Sisul* 5th Snyder*
50 Freestyle: 3rd Briggs* 4th Scholes* 10th Jones* 11th Wilson* 12th Ingamells*
100 Freestyle: 3rd Briggs* 5th Rupprecht 8th Snyder
500 Freestyle: 2nd Phillips-Sisul
200 Free Relay: 2nd (Scholes, Roberts, Rupprecht, Briggs) and 6th (Jones, Ingamells, Wilson, Snyder)
100 Breast: 2nd Rupprecht* 5th Scholes
400 Free Relay: 2nd (Phillips-Sisul, Wilson, Snyder, Roberts)

The boys will be back in action this Saturday in Grinnell!