Water Sharks collect six top-10 finishes at state swim meet

The Washington Community Y Water Sharks swim team competed at the state meet at the Marshalltown Community Y this past weekend, finishing in the top 10 in six events.

Megan Buitendorp finished in the top 10 in a pair of events. She took third place in the 200 back in the girls? 12-21 division in 2:24.15, and she also came in fifth in the 100 back in the 15-21 age group in 1:06.06. Buitendorp also finished 13

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in the 15-21 200 free in 2:18.21. The 200 medley relay team of Buitendorp, Emily Adam, Lyndsay Adrian and Meredith Lumberg finished 11

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in 2:16.26, and the same quartet came in 12

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in the 200 free relay in 1:58.33.

Adam also finished in the top 10 in a pair of individual races. She took eighth place in the 200 breaststroke in the girls? 12-21 division in 2:50.68, and she also finished 10

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in the 100 breaststroke in the 15-21 age group in 1:20.32.

The boys? 15-21 200 medley relay team of Jacob Miles, Nicholas Todd, Ben Berhow and Victor Miller took eighth place in 2:18.23. The quartet of Miller, Miles, Todd and Noah Bruns took 12

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place in the 200 free relay in 1:56.57.

Todd finished 11

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in the 100 breaststroke in 1:22.62, and Miles was right behind him in 14

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place in 1:32.30. Miles also came in 13

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in the 100 back in 1:26.04.

Bruns took ninth place in the 100 breaststroke in the boys? 13-14 division in 1:14.66. He also finished 13

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in the 200 individual medley in the 12-21 age group in 2:29.02, and he was 13

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in the 100 free in the 13-14 division in 58.60 seconds.

Kayla Andrew came in 11

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in the 50 butterfly in the girls? 11-12 division, and she was also 11

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in the 100 breaststroke in 1:23.97. Teammate Haylee Wilson finished 14

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in the 100 breaststroke in 1:24.35, and she also was 13

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in the 50 breaststroke in 38.19 seconds. The quartet of Audrey Wubbena, Wilson, Andrew and Allison Vogel finished 12

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in the 200 medley relay in 2:15.10, while the team of Cierra Miller, Claire Horak, Wubbena and Vogel came in 12

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in the 200 free relay in 2:02.18.

Michael Kimball took 11

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place in the 200 free in the boys? 11-12 division in 2:30.53, and he also finished 13

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in the 50 free in 30.17 seconds.

The Water Sharks finished 11

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in Division 2 at the state meet with 177 points.