MS athletics recaps for December 5-11

Many Middle School swimmers earned new personal records while basketball players are logging many hours on the court with victories over St. Matthew School. Keep up with our student-athletes by following USN Sports on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter.
Swimming
We did have some swimmers who had their first USN meet! Welcome to the team, Jane Doyle, Tommy Horst, Andres Mery, Margaux Soslow, and Hudson Unger! You tackled each challenge with aplomb, and every race that you swam was a PR!

In our third competition opportunity, we had plenty of swimmers take on something new! Ella Murdock did fly on a relay, Reya Roydid her first 200 free, Griffin Johnson and Rosie Hauser both raced the 160 IM (though both have done a 200 IM), and Avery Horst completed her first 100 fly. We also saw a lot of swimmers in their first 100 backs (Panambi Edmonds Cuellar, Adelaide Dervan, Eliana Wolf, Elise Jahangir, Laith Storey, Riley Kapp, Edwin Nelson) and 100 breasts (Aria Webber, Emma Tillman, Olivia Dozier).

The USN pool can be known for PRs because of the extra wall in the 100s. We saw plenty of faster swims today!
  • 200 Free: Avery Horst shredded 5 seconds from her PR (2:45.10).
  • 160 IM: Eliana Wolf improved 10 seconds! (2:46.83)
  • 40 Free: 
    • Five seconds??? My goodness: James Keiper (25.45)
    • Three to four seconds!: Lena LeClere (25.71), Sadie Magner (27.65), Samantha Shaba (28.42), Ella Murdock (29.03), Laith Storey (31.28), Emma Tillman (31.91)
    • Two seconds!: Ian Drewry (21.94), Caldwell Adams (26.40), Edwin Nelson (30.34)
    • A solid second: Brooks Lukach (24.26), Olivia Dozier (26.26), Lucy Garrison (27.95), Adelaide Dervan (28.28), Riley Kapp (31.21)
    • About half a second: Claire Yu (23.11)
  • 100 Fly: Cruze Vanatta improved 3 seconds in his first attempt at it for the season (1:38.00) while Panambi Edmonds Cueller shaved a smidge off of last meet’s massive PR (1:23.50).
  • 100 Free:
    • Holy Cow! TWELVE seconds: Molly Shaba (1:26.98), Neel Sinha (1:27.56)
    • Wow! Nine seconds!: Carter Vanatta (1:23.53)
    • Four seconds!: Beste Erdemir (1:07.43– if my data is correct!)
    • Two to three seconds: Mae Michels (1:12.70), Jack Johnson (1:17.88), Cruze Vanatta (1:18.74), Elaina Yu (1:21.78), Syra Bangalore (1:22.84), Emily Nicholson (1:37.75), 
  • 100 Back: Ella Murdock dropped a crazy 7 seconds (1:50.35) while Samantha Shaba and Caldwell Adams each dropped an impressive 5 seconds (1:31.03 and 1:40.73). Brooks Lukach, Syra Bangalore, and Carter Vanatta each improved two seconds (1:22.59, 1:36.06, and 1:39.24 respectively). Ian Drewry and Isaac Karpinos each cut another second off (1:07.72 and 1:32.29 respectively). Lucy Drewry was exact to her PR (1:30.51). 
  • 100 Breast: Sadie Magner and James Keiper took their times down by a crazy 11 seconds (1:46.07 and 1:35.84). Lena LeClere and Reya Roy each shredded off five seconds (1:31.98 and 1:50.23). Beste Erdemir improved almost two seconds (1:24.06) while Griffin Johnson took off one (1:22.31).  Rosie Hauser and Neel Sinha shaved off a smidge (1:38.23 and 1:51.56). 
With all those PRs recorded, we get to update our list of MTHSSA qualifiers. We encourage all of our swimmers to set goals to qualify for this meet! New qualifiers or times are bolded.
  1. Caldwell Adams: 50 free
  2. Ian Drewry: 200 IM, 100 back
  3. Lucy Drewry: 100 back
  4. Panambi Edmonds Cuellar: 200 IM, 100 fly, 100 back, 100 breast
  5. Beste Erdemir: 100 free, 100 breast
  6. Olivia Dozier: 50 free
  7. Lucy Garrison: 100 free, 100 breast
  8. Rosie Hauser: 100 fly, 100 back
  9. Avery Horst: 200 free, 200 IM, 50 free, 100 fly, 100 back
  10. Griffin Johnson: 100 free, 100 breast
  11. Jack Johnson: 200 IM, 100 free
  12. Elliott Karpinos: 500 free, 100 fly, 100 breast
  13. James Keiper: 100 breast
  14. Lena LeClere: 50 free, 100 breast
  15. Brooks Lukach: 50 free, 100 free, 100 back
  16. Mae Michels: 100 free, 100 back, 100 breast
  17. Samantha Shaba: 100 back
  18. Owen Spangler: 200 free
  19. Cruze Vanatta: 100 fly, 100 free
  20. Peter Weiss: 100 fly, 500 free
  21. Sam Womer: 100 fly, 100 breast
  22. Claire Yu: 200 free, 500 free
  23. Crockett Zieher: 50 free
This is a solid crew! Let’s keep building momentum into this meet at the end of January.

Basketball 
Our middle school basketball teams have been hard at work starting their season. 6th grade teams participated in the Overbrook Classic Tournament, playing different teams over the course of the week. The 6th grade girls played a strong game Monday, winning 27-5. The 6th grade boys played that night as well, pushing hard but ultimately falling 38-10. On Tuesday, the 6th grade boys team found themselves in a matchup with Covenant. Using their experience from the prior game, they worked to put more points on the board, but sadly came out with a loss of 44-22. December 9th, the 6th grade Boys A team stepped up their game to win 38-16. Wednesday night, we had more back to back Overbrook Classic Tournament games with 6th grade girls using all of their energy to beat Grace Christian Academy 26-6, and the 6th grade boys A team falling short 31-18 against GCA.

While the 6th grade teams were away on  Tuesday, the 7th & 8th grade teams hosted three games in the Cheek Gym versus St. Matthew School. JV Boys were up first, and they set the tone for the night with a win! With a final score of 29-22, their hard work practicing clearly paid off. Varsity Girls were next, playing tough to win 44-11. They played great defense, meshed well as a team, and put in the work to win by 33 points. Varsity Boys took the court next, playing more confidently and applying the skills they’ve been learning in practice. They ended with a loss of 36-32, just four points shy of the win. 
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