On Sep. 23, Maclay and Leon went back and forth as the two Tallahassee programs met at Maclay for a 22-event swim meet. Both teams had strong performances, with Maclay winning 13 events and the boys\u2019 team taking the team score 584-558, while Leon finished ahead in the girls\u2019 team standings 471-429 and won the combined team score 1,029-1,013.<\/p>\n
The meet featured wins from swimmers on both sides as the teams continued building toward the postseason.<\/p>\n
For Maclay, Olivia Holt had a strong night, winning the girls 200-yard individual medley in 2:17.53 and the 100-yard butterfly in 58.66. Molly Lambert won the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle, while Emmie Sutton won the 500-yard freestyle. Eliza Horton also earned a victory in the 100-yard breaststroke. Leon also put together several notable performances on the girls side. Madalyn Van Hise won the 200-yard freestyle in 2:16.24, finishing just ahead of Maclay\u2019s Eliza Horton. Osea Rawlings won the 100-yard backstroke in 1:11.34, while Leon\u2019s girls also won the 400-yard freestyle relay.<\/p>\n
Maclay\u2019s boys were led by Brennan Abatecola, who won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:53.25 and the 100-yard freestyle in 50.84. William Chen won the 200-yard individual medley in 2:11.42 and the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:09.57, while David Paquette won the 50-yard freestyle in 23.38.<\/p>\n
Leon answered with several victories of its own. Jake Askey won both the boys 100-yard butterfly in 56.03 and the 500-yard freestyle in 4:51.23. Grant Hudnall won the boys 100-yard backstroke in 1:07.07, while Leon\u2019s boys also won the opening 200-yard medley relay.<\/p>\n
Maclay\u2019s boys finished the meet by winning the 200-yard freestyle relay and 400-yard freestyle relay. The 200 freestyle relay team of William Chen, Brennan Abatecola, David Paquette and Peter Dunkerley finished in 1:32.90, while the same four swimmers combined for a 3:30.85 in the 400 freestyle relay.<\/p>\n
With the championship portion of the season approaching, both Maclay and Leon will continue working toward regional and state qualification opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sep. 23, Maclay and Leon went back and forth as the two Tallahassee programs met at Maclay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-413792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}