So close: Ladies nearly win regionals

The Green River High School swim team is beginning to peak at the right time of the season.

The Lady Wolves had an impressive performance at last week’s 4A West Regional meet in Evanston, nearly walking away with a first-place finish.

Green River finished in second place with 304 points, just 22 points behind first-place Kelly Walsh. Rock Springs finished in third with 246 points. Riverton finished fourth, Evanston was fifth and Casper Natrona finished in sixth place.

Lady Wolves head coach Colleen Seiloff said she was absolutely pleased with the performance of her squad.

“We swam very well, had some first place finishers and some of our best times,” she said.

As a team, Green River had three relays earn all conference honors by finishing in the top three.

The 200-yard medley relay finished in first-place. The four swimmers on the team were Shyana Hunt, Jesse Lauze, Emily Allen and Kaylee Plott.

The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Hunt, Plott, Taylor Orr and Dakota Neumann finished in second place. The 400-yard freestyle relay team also finished in second place. Members of the team were Elizabeth Barker, Orr, Neumann and Avery Otto-Horn.

Individually, the Lady Wolves had some strong performances and came away from the meet with two first-place finishers.

Freshman Otto-Horn won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.72 and fellow ninth grader finished in first place in the 100 yard breaststroke with a time of 1:16.82.

The two also earned all-conference honors in their other individual events. Otto-Horn also finished second in the 100-yard butterfly. Lauze finished third in the 200-yard IM.

Other all-conference swims included Hunt finishing second in the 50-yard freestyle and 100 yard backstroke, Brianna Rath finishing third in 1-meter diving, Barker finishing second in the 500-yard freestyle, Neumann finishing second in the 100-yard freestyle and third in the 100-yard backstroke and Orr finishing third in the 100- yard freestyle.

Other top finishes for Green River included Barker finishing fifth and Orr finishing eighth in the 200-yard freestyle, Allen finishing fifth in the 200-yard IM and fourth in the 100-yard butterfly, Delani Kunz placing seventh in diving, McKell Lyon finishing eighth in the 500-yard freestyle and Amanda Cruz placing 11th in the 100 yard backstroke.

Following the meet, Seiloff said the results at conference should help give the girls some confidence moving forward. She said they will continue to work hard.

This week the team will host a last chance meet Thursday at 4 p.m. in Green River.

Seiloff said there is a 50-50 chance that it will take place in the new aquatic center. She added the team currently has nine swimmers qualified for state, and are hoping to pick up a tenth at the meet.