Oskaloosa Competes At Grinnell Invite

Oskaloosa Indians

by Todd Miller

The Oskaloosa Indian Swim Team traveled to Grinnell on Saturday to take part in their large Invitation Swim meet. Oskaloosa competed against LinnMarr, Indianola Area, Grinnell, Des Moines East, Ottumwa, and Vinton-Shellsburg and came away with 138 points on the day. The boys are getting faster as the swim times were going down all day long, especially for the newer swimmers as they had some relay improvements of over 20 seconds and individual races up to 7 seconds better than their personal bests.

The Indians started off by sending two teams to swim in the 200 Medley Relay event. The team of Keygan Roberts, Aaron Scholes, Lucca Caro, and Landon Hunolt swam a time of 2:19.67 for an 18-second improvement and the other team earned a 6th place finish with Owen Gordon, Colin Fiechtner, Carson Breon, and Jarod Miller swimming a time of 1:52.32.

After the 200 Free, Colin Fiechtner went to the blocks to swim the 200 IM for the Indians as he came away with a 7th place finish in a time of 2:24.34.

In the 50 Free Oskaloosa sent five swimmers to compete in the race as Trae Jarvis finished in 37.55, Andrew Scholes in 34.36, Aaron Scholes in 31.08, Joshua Hartl in 30.94, and Lucca Claro in 29.92 to earn the top finish for the Indians. These five swimmers were able to swim a total of 28.7 seconds faster than their previous personal bests!

Next up was the 100 Butterfly as Jarod Miller went to the blocks for the Indians and swam a 59.09 and earned a 4th place finish. This was a personal best as well.

Next up was the 100 Free as Osky sent 3 swimmers with Trae Jarvis swimming a 1:27.12, Joshua Hartl a 1:13.21 and Keygan Roberts swam a 1:04.61 for a 25th place finish. Combined these swimmers cut 11.94 seconds from their personal bests!

Next up was the longest race the 500 Free and Carson Breon went to the blocks and swam a 5:35.72 to earn a 4th place finish and was able to take off nearly 4 seconds from his previous time.

Next event was the 200 Free Relay and Osky sent 2 teams to compete in this event. The first team to swim was Lucca, Claro, Landon Hunolt, Andrew Scholes, and Keygan Roberts who finished in a time of 2:03.12, which was 17.17 seconds faster than their previous best. The second team of Owen Gordon, Gordon, Colin Fiechtner, Jarod Miller, and Carson Breon swam a time of 1:39.55 to earn the 5th place finish.

The 100 Backstroke was next, and Owen Gordon jumped in a swam a 1:02.61 to earn the 4th place finish.

The 100 Breaststroke event soon followed, and the brother duo of Aaron and Andrew Scholes dove in for the Indians. Andrew swam a 1:32.38 which was 2.88 seconds faster than his personal best and Aaron swam a 1:25.76 for a 2.15-second reduction over his previous personal best.

In the last event, 400 Free Relay, Osky sent two teams to compete. The team of Lucc Claro, Landon Hunolt, Joshua Hartl, and Keygan Roberts finished in a time of 4:42.89 to earn a 13th place finish with an improvement of nearly 30 seconds. The team earning a 4th place finish was Jarod Miller, Carson Breon, Colin Fiechtner, and Owen Gordon who swam a time of 3:44.45.

Next up for the Indians is their home swim meet at the YMCA and it will be Senior night as well. The meet starts at 5:30 as we will be taking o Keokuk and Williamsburg. We are hoping to see a full pool area and upper observation area as it is the only home swim meet of the year and the boys have been working hard.

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