The Pioneers racked up 288 points, well ahead of Holland West Ottawa (177), Brighton (156) and Novi (155).Īlthough Pioneer had only one individual winner - Gabriel Sanchez-Burks won the 50 and 100 freestyle (20.19 and 45.25) - the team defended its title with depth, winning all three relays (1:33.73 in the medley, 1:25.95 in the 200 free and 3:07.96 in the 400 free).Ĭanton’s Ryan Gurgel and Zeeland’s Owen Stevens were the other double-event winners. East Grand Rapids won the race, but Cranbrook was the meet’s team champion at the Michigan high school Division 3 swim and dive finals at Oakland University on Saturday, March 11, 2023.Īt Calvin University, Ann Arbor Pioneer blitzed the field to win its third title in a row. MICK McCABE: How Grosse Pointe South's Logan Hepner, seeking 'a challenge,' became state's best diver Division 1Įast Grand Rapids’ Micah Spitzley and Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood’s Sean Lu are up on the blocks for the final race of the day, the 400 freestyle relay. South had a trio of winners: Logan Hepner in one-meter diving (560.8 points), Keiran Rahmaan in the butterfly (49.02) and Troy Liu in the 100 free (46.17). MacDonald later won the breaststroke (55.90). From there, Ian MacDonald placed second in the individual medley (1:50.18) and Asa Allen was third in the 50 free (21.17). Groves started off strong by winning the first two events, the medley relay (1:33.29) and Ian Duncan took the 200 freestyle (1:40.19). Birmingham Seaholm (210) and Grosse Pointe South (207) also made it to the trophy stand at the Holland Aquatic Center. In another meet that went down to the final events, top-ranked Birmingham Groves held off hard-charging U-D Jesuit, 274-267, to win its first Division 2 title since 2010. We had several school records, but we were just not quite up to their standards.” Division 2 “Winning the medley and the 200 free relay, that helped them a lot, and they obviously had good breaststrokers. “Today they were better than we were, they had a great second day,” East Grand Rapids coach Butch Briggs said. Schwab was the only individual double-event winner. Everyone did their part, everyone nickel-and-dimed their way into the top 16, and then everyone moved up a little bit in this final swim we had.”Ĭranbrook finished with 271, outpointing East Grand Rapids (259), Holland Christian (161) and Adrian (135). “All those guys swam out of their minds, so it was just a phenomenal team effort from top to bottom. “I talked to the boys at the beginning of the season and they set the goal, they wanted to win the D3 state championship, but I told them it was the middle-tier guys who have to make that next step forward in order for them to accomplish that goal,” Cranbrook coach Paul Ellis said. The two teams battled for the top spot all afternoon, and the Pioneers took a 208-190 lead after the 10th event, the backstroke, after Micah Spitzley finished second (51.14) and Ted Turnage was ninth (53.05).Įast Grand Rapids’ Logan McCahill, Carter Kegle, Micah Spitzley and Ted Turnage exit the pool after winning the 400 freestyle relay at the Michigan high school Division 3 swim and dive finals at Oakland University on Saturday, March 11, 2023. They scored 114 of their 271 points by winning the medley and 200-meter freestyle relays (1:33.06 and 1:27.33), and finishing as runner-up to East in the 400 free relay (3:11.88). I couldn’t be more proud of this team.”Ĭranbrook had to get past top-ranked East Grand Rapids, who had won the past two years. Everyone who was watching the meet could tell we were the most rowdy team on the deck, we were having fun cheering, we were having fun swimming, doing everything. Everyone here who qualified for states, they all contributed to this. We felt 17 of us could get to the state meet and 16 did. “Last year, after the state meet, we sat down and we went through (the roster) and we discussed, realistically, who could get state cuts. “We knew coming into this year that we had the guys,” said Schwab, who has signed to swim at Michigan.
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