On Tuesday, June 28, the Sewanee Tigersharks hosted the Manchester Makos at home at the University of the South Natatorium. This is the first time the Tigersharks and Makos have gone head to head since 2019. In another hard fought meet, the Makos ultimately defeated the Tigersharks by a score of 320 to 275.

Tigershark relays dominated several events with first place finishes by the following relay teams: 9-10 Medley Relay of Kam Kilgore, Kyla Kilgore, Eli Summers, Arabella Barry (1:31.92); 11-12 Medley Relay of Konrad Knoll, Lily Camp, Anara Summers, Archer Ladd (1:14.62); 8 & U Boys Free Relay of Daniel Comoretto, Atticus Loose, Grant Rundle, Ian Brain (1:56.93); Girls 9-10 of Kyla Kilgore, Sadie Camp, Ella Brain, Arabella Barry; Girls 11-12 Free Relay of Lily Camp, Ella Matthews, Jane Shealy, Anara Summers (1:15.90); Boys 11-12 Free Relay of Flynn Allen, David Allen, Ayden Allen, Martin Brodsky (1:44.16); and Boys 13-14 Free Relay of Konrad Knoll, Archer Ladd, Sawyer Barry, Sam Goodpaster.

Several Tigershark swimmers had exceptional events individually as well, taking home first place finishes in one or more individual events: Arabella Barry (9) finished first in the 9-10 Girls’ 100 Individual Medley (2:08.28); Ian Brain (8) finished first in the 8 & U 25 Free (25.30), 25 Back (28.96), and 25 Butterfly (37.21); Suzy Camp (7) finished first in the 8 & U Girls’ 100 IM (3:08.73); Max Goodpaster (11) took first in the 11-12 Boys Breast (50.25); Kyla Kilgore (10) finished first in the 9-10 Girls 50 Free (42.80), 25 Breast (26.78), and 25 Fly (25.89); Konrad Knoll (11) in 11-12 Boys 50 Free (33.39), 100 IM (1:26.74), and 50 Back (39.82); Zolon Knoll (18) 15-19 Boys 50 Back (31.65); Archer Ladd (11) 11-12 Boys 50 Fly (47.82); Axton Ladd (6) finished first in Boys 6 & U 25 Free (40.20) and 25 Back (38.76); Atticus Loose finished first in the Boys 8 & U 25 Breast (53.48); Anara Summers (11) finished first in the Girls 11-12 50 Breast (39.85), 100 IM (1:47.83), and 50 Fly (33.79); Eli Summers (9) took first in the 9-10 Boys 25 Backstroke (23.32); and Lucie Watch (18) took first in the 15-19 Girls 50 Back (35.04).

Time improvements were achieved by 34 swimmers on at least one individual event, with several Tigershark swimmers dropping significant time amounts over 10 seconds: Ayden Allen (12) dropped 10.91 sec in the 11-12 Boys 50 Freestyle, Ella Brain (9) dropped 12.25 sec in the 9-10 Girls 25 Butterfly, Sophie Brehm (10) dropped 14.27 sec in the 9-10 Girls 25 Backstroke, Shea Gatta (8) dropped 16.11 sec on the 7-8 Girls 25 Free, and Cece Brehm (7) dropped an unbelievable 65.67 sec in the 7-8 Girls 25 Freestyle.

Tigershark swimmers have worked hard to master new strokes over the last week, with seven swimmers progressing to the point that they were ready to compete in Butterfly, Breaststroke, or both at the meet: Arabella Barry (9) swam her first 25 Breaststroke (39.55) and 100 IM (2:08.78), Ian Brain (8) swam his first 25 Butterfly (37.21), Elena Brodsky (10) swam her first 25 Butterfly (36.87), Sadie Camp (9) swam her first 100 IM (3:03.17), Kam Kilgore (9) swam his first 25 Breaststroke (37.43) and 25 Butterfly (31.85), Bea Shealy swam her first 25 Butterfly (49.92), and Josie Stevens (11) swam her first 50 Butterfly (1:14.64).

Anara Summers (11) set new team records in the Girls 11-12 50 Breaststroke and 100 IM. Summers’ time of 39.85 in the Breaststroke broke her own record of 40.16 set last summer, while her time of 1:14.30 in the 100 IM broke her record of 1:14.31, also set last summer.

The Tigershark swimmers will host the RACE League East Championships at the Fowler Center Natatorium on Saturday, July 9.