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Owens named top women’s swimmer during WAC meet
Smoky Mountain senior Megan Owens was named the most valuable swimmer at the women’s Western Athletic Conference Meet held Saturday at Brevard.
Owens won the 50 freestyle with a time of 26.09 and the 100 free in 57.88.
Smoky Mountain’s Megan Owens was named the most valuable women’s swimmer at the Western Athletic Conference Meet held Saturday at Brevard. She won two events for the Lady Mustangs.
The school’s female nominee for the Wendy’s High School Heisman, Owens has been hampered by illness this season. Although she has qualified for the State 2-A Meet in all of her events, she will not be able to compete in the middle distance races. She will concentrate on shorter sprint events.
The Lady Mustangs placed second at the WAC Meet while the Mustang men were third.
Others placing for the Lady Mustangs included:
200 medley relay – Katie Hayes, Kaitlyn Kluge, Owens and Annelise Davis, second, 2:20.21.
200 free – Victoria Palmer, fourth, 2:45.45; Caitlin Stehling, sixth, 3:15.76; Miriam Brown, seventh, 3:26.92.
50 free – Davis, fifth, 29.71; Alex Kevlin, eighth, 31.2; Hayes, 10th, 31.73.
100 butterfly – Rachel Graning, sixth, 1:32.84.
100 free – Kluge, fourth, 1:09.91; Kevlin, sixth, 1:14.42; Natalie Woodard, 11th, 1:22.31.
200 free relay – Davis, Kevlin, Hayes and Owens, second, 1:59.36.
100 backstroke – Davis, second, 1:18.49; Palmer, fifth, 1:31.31; Graning, eighth, 1:36.23; Hayes, ninth, 1:37.44.
100 breaststroke – Kluge, third, 1:28.28; Kelly Moore, sixth, 1:35.34.
400 free relay – Palmer, Graning, Kevlin and Kluge, third, 5:02.21.
Smoky Mountain senior swimmers were recently honored in advance of the Western Athletic Conference Meet, which was held Saturday. Pictured are, from left: (front) Juan Escorza, Megan Owens and Victoria Palmer; (back) Coach Peter Hughes, Kaitlyn Kluge, Alex Kevlin, Mark Miller and Coach Bill Bowers.
Those placing for the Mustang men included:
200 medley relay – Whitfield Anderson, Grayson Cooper, Mark Miller and Anthony McDowell, second, 2:04.25.
200 individual medley – Miller, second, 2:40.16.
50 free – Anderson, third, 25.61; McDowell, 10th, 29.97.
100 free – Anderson, 59.48; Cooper, 12th, 1:17.28.
500 free – McDowell, fourth, 7:43.8.
200 free relay – Miller, Cooper, McDowell and Anderson, third, 1:52.96.
100 back – Miller, second, 1:10.78.
100 breast – Cooper, eighth, 1:31.39.
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