The Wolves swimming team took third and qualified a couple more swimmers this weekend while at home.
On Friday and Saturday the Green River High School boys swimming team showed off their skills in front of a home crowd earning them a third-place spot with 211 points.
They finished behind Laramie High School and Lander High School, which had 284 and 251 respectively.
Diving and assistant coach Rick Barker said Green River had eight teams in town on Friday and 10 Saturday.
“All in all we had a pretty good weekend,” Barker said. “We swam pretty well all the way around.”
Those who have qualified so far this season are Michael Richmond, Jason Richmond, Elijah Kraft, Alex Gardea and Dean Lyon.
“A bunch of those kids picked up several events,” Barker said.
A group of other swimmers are quickly approaching the state-qualifying times in various events.
Barker said they are within a second to half a second of obtaining that goal.
“We should pick up several more after the next few weeks,” he said. “We had kids who swam well in Laramie last weekend who turned around and swam well again.”
The team is swimming better than it has and it’s where it needs to be to keep improving every week.
Even though Christmas break is coming, the swimmers will only have a few days away from practice.
They will have a meet in Rock Springs at 4 p.m. Thursday and a meet over Christmas break on Dec. 28-29 in Laramie.
Barker said the team will have a few days off after the Rock Springs meet, but will start practices again Wednesday, Dec. 26.
“We will continue to train as we have been training,” he said.
The Wolves continue to work hard and Barker is pleased with where they are at this point in the season.
Green River Invitational results
Laramie, 284
Lander, 251
Green River, 211
Cheyenne South, 143
Cheyenne East, 142
200-yard medley relay
GRHS Team A: M. Richmond, J. Richmond, Trevor Moser, E. Kraft, 1:47.07
200-yard freestyle
D. Lyon, 1:55.65
E. Kraft, 2:00.77
200-yard individual medley
J. Richmond, 2:11.62
50-yard freestyle
Gabe Davis, 24.70
Jake Probst, 25.98
1-meter diving
Kayson Snow, 153.40
100-yard butterfly
M. Richmond, 52.75
Johnathan Clark, 1:05.48
100-yard freestyle
G. Davis, 55.62
E. Kraft, 56.12
500-yard freestyle
D. Lyon, 5:19.54
200-yard freestyle relay
GRHS Team A: E. Kraft, J. Richmond, M. Richmond, D. Lyon, 1:36.07
100-yard backstroke
M. Richmond, 55.27
J. Clark, 1:05.18
100-yard breaststroke
J. Richmond, 1:04.46
Devin Bobbitt, 1:11.47
400-yard freestyle relay
5. GRHS Team A: G. Davis, T. Moser, J. Probst, D. Lyon, 3:52.70
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