The WVSSAC Region 1 Swimming Championship, aka Regionals, comes after many swimmers just completed their conference championships.\u00a0 The goal for swimmers at Regionals is to finish in the top 3 individual events and top 2 in relay events to become an automatic qualifier for the WVSSAC State Swimming Championship.\u00a0 The next goal is to post a time in an event that would make the swimmers finish as one of the times at large.\u00a0 There are four regions in West Virginia that allow 12 automatic qualifiers, the next top 12 times in the state per event get to continue to States.\u00a0 This is the start of a journey for a few swimmers, and is the end of the season for most.\u00a0 How a swimmer makes it to States is different for each swimmer.\u00a0 Some need to wear a tech suit and swim at their best.\u00a0 Some wear a normal swimsuit, swim a good race and hope that the next race at States with a tech suit works to their advantage.\u00a0 This is the mental part of swimming, making sure that a swimmer is at their best when they need to be.<\/p>\n
It is always interesting to see what swimmers and coaches select for individual races.\u00a0 They are deciding on where a swimmer can place on the state level, but making that decision for a regional race. Initial reaction to seeing the heat sheet earlier in the day was telling.\u00a0 It was very quick to see that the ladies 100 Back race was going to be the race of the day.\u00a0 Three swimmers that college coaches would all love to have on their team had Victoria Kidney from John Marshall swimming against Jordan Claypoole of Parkersburg South and Delaney Householder from Morgantown.\u00a0 It should be noted that these three will finish in the top three in the 100 Back at States.\u00a0 They are that good.\u00a0 At the end of the race, Victoria Kidney broke a pool and Region 1 meet record.\u00a0 Counterpoint to the 100 Back was the ladies 50 Free that had new swimmers that have yet to make their mark on the State level.\u00a0 A freshman from Booke, Faith Farrel, out touched her competition to seal an amazing day for the newcomer.\u00a0 Neither the 100 Back nor the 50 Free disappoint.<\/p>\n
For the boys races the 100 Back once again stood out.\u00a0 Quade Harris from Parkersburg South racing Carter Redelman from Morgantown and Anthony Ott from Parkersburg South.\u00a0 Quade out touch Carter by .29 seconds to take the gold at regionals.\u00a0 Both Carter and Anthony formed another good race in the 100 Fly.\u00a0 Carter bested Anthony by tenths of seconds to win the Fly.<\/p>\n
The afternoon finishes with the announcement of the Region 1 All-Tournament Team which are the swimmers that scored the most individual points throughout the day.\u00a0 There were known names like Victoria Kidney & Caroline Riggs that continue to break records and swim at the top level.\u00a0 Lacie Langmyer, Delaney Householder, and Jordan Claypoole who are known names and excelled at their events on the day.\u00a0 Then there were the fresh faces to the All Region 1 team with Faith Ferrel and Abby Heilman who stood out through the day.\u00a0 In the same regards, there were known names for the boys All Region 1 Tournament Team with the likes of Quade Harris, Carter Redelman, and Lake Embrey.\u00a0 They included newcomers Levi Parker and Christian Hammer into their group.<\/p>\n
With Regionals in the rear-view mirror, all swimmers and coaches turned to the phones waiting for the other 3 Regions to report results.\u00a0 As the results come in, there will be some swimmers that realize their season has finished, there will be swimmers that smile knowing they did what they needed to do to make it to States, and then there will be the swimmers hungry to finish the season with a medal around their neck or for the very select a 2023 West Virginia State Championship to their name!<\/p>\n
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WVSSAC Swimming Championship Automatic Qualifiers:<\/p>\n
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For women\u2019s races<\/p>\n
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200 Medley Relay – Wheeling Park & Parkersburg South<\/p>\n
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200 Free – Caroline Riggs, Morgantown; Lacie Langmyer, Wheeling Park; Lily Linsheid, Morgantown<\/p>\n
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200 IM – Delaney Householder, Morgantown; Abby Heilman, Wheeling Park; JulieAnne Humpee, Wheeling Central<\/p>\n
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50 Free – Faith Farrell, Brooke; Maddie McCoy, University; Adelaide Vann, Parkersburg<\/p>\n
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100 Fly – Victoria Kidney, John Marshall, Izzy Farinash, Parkersburg, Lilith Crichton, Parkersburg<\/p>\n
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100 Free – Jordan Claypoole, Parkersburg South; Ella McCullough, Brooke; Maddie McCoy, University<\/p>\n
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500 Free – Lacie Langmyer, Wheeling Park; Lily Linshceid, Morgantown; Avery Householder, Morgantown<\/p>\n
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200 Free Relay – Morgantown & John Marshall<\/p>\n
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100 Back – Victoria Kidney, John Marshall; Jordan Claypoole, Parkersburg South, Delaney Householder, Morgantown<\/p>\n
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100 Breast – Caroline Riggs, Morgantown; Abby Heilman, Wheeling Park; Abie Riedel, Wheeling Central<\/p>\n
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400 Free Relay – Morgantown & Parkersburg<\/p>\n
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For Men\u2019s Races:<\/p>\n
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200 Medley Relay – Parkersburg South & Morgantown<\/p>\n
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200 Free – Levi Parker, Wheeling Park; Lake Embrey, Morgantown; Ethan Metz, Parkersburg<\/p>\n
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200 IM – Christian Hammer, Morgantown; Carly Ramsay, Parkersburg; Ian Sasyn, Parkersburg<\/p>\n
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50 Free – Ethan Metz, Parkersburg; Ryan Richardson, Parkersburg South; Dameon Rea, Brooke<\/p>\n
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100 Fly – Carter Redelman, Morgantown; Anthony Ott, Parkersburg South; Christian Hammer, Morgantown<\/p>\n
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100 Free – Quade Harris, Parkersburg South; Conner Roberts, Parkersburg South; Braden Williwms, Parkersburg<\/p>\n
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500 Free – Lake Embrey, Morgantown; Levi Parker, Wheeling Park; Carty Ramsay, Parkersburg<\/p>\n
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200 Free Relay – Parkersburg & Parkersburg South<\/p>\n
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100 Back – Quade Harris, Parkersburg South, Carter Redelman, Morgantown; Anthony Ott, Parkersburg South<\/p>\n
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100 Breast – Ian Sasyn, Parkersburg; Andrew Kirk, Parkersburg South; Maddox Rader, Parkersburg South<\/p>\n
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400 Free Relay – Parkersburg South & Morgantown<\/p>\n
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Article compliments of Kevin Heilman\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The WVSSAC Region 1 Swimming Championship, aka Regionals, comes after many swimmers just completed their conference championships.\u00a0 The goal for swimmers at Regionals is to finish in the top 3 individual events and top 2 in relay events to become an automatic qualifier for the WVSSAC State Swimming Championship.\u00a0 The next goal is to post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school"],"yoast_head":"\n