LAPEER GIRLS VARSITY SWIM & DIVE

8/27/2025 – SWARTZ CREEK RELAY RESULTS

1ST – Brandon High School                     116

2nd – Kearsley/Lake Fenton                   80

2nd – Swartz Creek/Flushing                 80

4th – Lapeer Swim & Dive                      36

We had our first meet of the season on Wednesday, 8/27, when our team traveled to Swartz Creek for the Swartz Creek Relays.  I love having this be our first meet of the season, as it is a great way for our new swimmers to get used to the meet format, while never being behind the starting block by themselves.  This provides a great atmosphere to help them to get rid of the first meet nerves and jitters.  It is also a fun meet with unique relays that are not in a normal dual meet.  This meet had a total of 10 events for points and a bonus 11th event that was 3 Athletes plus one Coach; however, this event did not count towards points.  Each team was allowed to enter one relay team per event.  Athletes were allowed to compete in a maximum of 3 relays, not including the bonus 11th event relay.  The top 3 finishing relay team from each event also won medals. 

There were a total of 55 athletes competing at this meet:  Brandon had 14, Kearsley/Lake Fenton had 17, Swartz Creek/Flushing had 12 and our team had 12.  Our team currently consists of 6 returning athletes (Alyssa Carter, Alicia Hoppe, Sophia Hoppe, Charlie Mahl, Berlin Sanchez and Ellerie Whitt) and 6 brand new to Swim & Dive (Piper Bolin, Mikayla Findora, Penelope Haggerty, Raelynn Harris, Jordyn Vanatta, and Catherine Wackler).  All of our teams have only had a maximum of 12 days to practice prior to this meet.  We took some baseline times last week to see where everyone was at.  Based on those times, our team has already achieved some very impressive time drops, with everyone dropping time!  I’m so proud of all of them and feel our team is off to a good start!  They brought home a total of 16 medals!  Congratulations Ladies!  I’m looking forward to having a fantastic season with you and can’t wait to see what you all do at our next meet agaist Bay City Central & Powers Catholic on 9/9.

Go Lightning!

Coach Wagner

Please see the complete meet results for our team listed below:

PB – New Personal Best Time Achieved

SB – New Season’s Best Time Achieved

DQ – Disqualification (Times don’t count)

(-) – Amount of time dropped

Event #1:   200 MEDLEY RELAY

4th – 2:26.25 – (6 points)

·       50 Back – Berlin Sanchez – 33.44* PB (-2.47)

·       50 Breast – Charlie Mahl – 34.30* SB (-3.07)

·       50 Fly – Alicia Hoppe – 44.62* SB (-3.93)

·       50 Free – Sophia Hoppe – 33.89* PB (-3.56)

Event #2:  800 FREESTYLE RELAY (4 x 200 FREE)

·       We did not have a relay team entered in this event.

Event #3:  400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY RELAY (4 X 100 IM)

DQ – 6:09.51 – Early Takeoff Swimmer #3 (times don’t count)

·       100 IM – Alicia Hoppe – 1:34.11* PB (-42.62)

·       100 IM – Sophia Hoppe – 1:46.73* PB (-4.64)

·       100 IM – Mikayla Findora – 1:33.56* PB (1st time swimming)

·       100 IM – Charlie Mahl – 1:15.11* PB (1st time swimming)

Event #4:  200 FREESTYLE RELAY (4 x 50 FREE)

4TH – 3:24.20 – (6 Points)

·       50 Free – Catherine Wackler – 48.82* PB (-5.92)

·       50 Free – Piper Bolton – 1:07.35* PB (-8.40)

·       50 Free – Jordyn Vanatta – 45.74* PB (-12.88)

·       50 Free – Penelope Haggerty – 42.29* PB (-12.67)

Event #5:  200 BUTTERFLY RELAY (4 x 50 FLY)

·       We did not have a relay team entered in this event.

Event #6:  500 CRESCENDO RELAY (50 – 100 – 150 – 200 FREE)

4TH – 8:23.54 – (6 points)

·       50 Free – Raelynn Harris – 1:05.95* PB (-18.06)

·       100 Free – Alyssa Carter – 1:23.41* SB (-12.68)

·       150 Free – Ellerie Whitt – 2:38.21* PB (1st time swimming)

·       200 Free – Sophia Hoppe – 3:15.97* SB (1st time swimming this season)

Event #7:  200 BACKSTROKE RELAY (4 x 50 BACK)

DQ – 3:21.85 – Swimmer #3 did not finish on back – (times don’t count)

·       50 Back – Berlin Sanchez – 38.42* SB (-1.77)

·       50 Back – Penelope Haggerty – 58.25* PB (-5.27)

·       50 Back – Jordyn Vanatta – 57.06* PB (-1.72)

·       50 Back – Alyssa Carter – 48.12* PB (-15.47)

Event #8:  400 FREESTYLE RELAY (4 x 100 FREE)

·       We did not have a relay team entered in this event.

Event #9:  200 BREASTSTROKE RELAY (4 x50 BREAST)

2ND Place – 3:15.58 – (10 points)

·       50 Breast – Charlie Mahl – 35.47* SB (-1.90)

·       50 Breast – Mikayla Findora – 46.79* PB (-2.91)

·       50 Breast – Ellerie Whitt – 1:05.97* SB (-3.53)

·       50 Breast – Alicia Hoppe – 47.35* PB (-5.73)

Event #10:  400 FREESTYLE RELAY (8 x 50 FREE)

3rd Place – 6:39.73 (8 points)

·       50 Free – Alyssa Carter – 36.83* SB (-3.64)

·       50 Free – Piper Bolton – 1:05.84* PB (-9.91)

·       50 Free – Mikayla Findora – 34.67* PB (-4.78)

·       50 Free – Penelope Haggerty – 48.63* PB (-6.33)

·       50 Free – Raelynn Harris – 1:07.87* PB (-16.14)

·       50 Free – Jordyn Vanatta – 51.58* PB (-7.04)

·       50 Free – Catherine Wackler – 52.16* PB (-2.58)

·       50 Free – Ellerie Whitt – 42.15* SB (-2.40)

Event #11 – 200 FREESTYLE BONUS RELAY (3 Athletes + 1 Coach)

2nd – 2:07.19 – (This bonus event did not count towards points)

·       50 Free – Charlie Mahl – (splits were not recorded)

·       50 Free – Berin Sanchez – (splits were not recorded)

·       50 Free – Sophia Hoppe – (splits were not recorded)

·       50 Free – Kim Bolin (volunteer Coach) – (splits were not recorded)

Meet Photo Collage:

Top Left Photo:  Catherine Wackler swimming Freestyle

Top Center Photo:  Berlin Sanchez swimming Backstroke

Top Right Photo:  Piper Bolton swimming Freestyle

Middle Left Photo:  Charlie Mahl swimming Breaststroke

Bottom Left Photo:  Alicia Hoppe swimming Butterfly

Team photo:    Front Row – Penelope Haggerty, Jordyn Vanatta, Piper Bolton, Catherine Wackler, Raelynn Harris. Back Row – Alicia Hoppe, Charlie Mahl, Berlin Sanchez, Ellerie Whitt, Sophia Hoppe, Alyssa Carter and Mikayla Findora