Joplin High School swimming coach Blair Cummins hopes that last weekend’s strong showing in the Southwest Missouri Championships will catapult the Eagles into an equally solid effort this week.
Cummins, assistant Denise Krolman and those qualified Eagles were scheduled to leave this morning for St. Peters and the MSHSAA Girls Swimming and Diving Championships.
Two days of competition — there’s just one class in swimming — will start with preliminaries on Friday at the City of St. Peters Rec-Plex.
The Eagles finished third among 14 teams on Friday and Saturday in the Southwest Missouri Championships at the Foster Natatorium in Springfield.
Glendale and Kickapoo basically made it a two-team chase for team supremacy with 286 and 240 points, respectively. Joplin tallied 156.
“We were very pleased considering our number of swimmers. The girls were outstanding,” Cummins said on Wednesday.
.Webb City, with 105 points, finished sixth. Nevada was eighth, Carthage ninth and Lamar 10th.
Joplin received firsts from senior Michelle Barchak in the 100 IM and junior Madi Wood in the 100 butterfly.
Joplin second places were claimed by Barchak in the breaststroke, Wood in the 200 freestyle and junior Genny Richards in the butterfly.
Nevada’s Grace Reichard logged seconds in both the 50 and 100 freestyle events behind Nikki Sisson of Glendale.
Webb City received fourth from Erica Logal in the IM and third in the 100 and 200 free from Brittany Steever.
Cummins said individually at state Barchak will compete in the 200 IM and the breaststroke, Wood in the 200 and 500 free and Richards in the butterfly and 500 free.
Barchak (backstroke), freshman Kate Stauffer (breaststroke), Richards (butterfly) and Wood (free) make up the 200 medley relay. The same girls will swim the 200 free relay.
Anna Davis, a junior, is the Joplin alternate, Cummins said.
Joplin records tumbled in the Southwest Missouri Championships, Cummins said, with Wood on Saturday lowering her butterfly standard set in the Friday prelims. It’s now at 59.93.
Richards’ runner-up time in the butterfly was 1:00.45, Cummins said, and that also was better than Richards’ 2011 mark of 1:01.13.
The third-place medley relay time of 1:57.74 ousted the 2010 record of 1:58.26. Also, Wood moved atop the 200 free with the second place in 1:48.39.
The 200 free relay team finished fourth — worth 22 points — in 1:46.57 to qualify for state. Richards’ fifth in the 500 free (5:27.24) also was a qualifying time.
“We’re close to the (school) record in the 200 freestyle relay,” Cummins said.
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February 15, 2012
Joplin swimmers hope to carry momentum to state meet
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Outlaws open season Thursday on the road
Chris Oldner takes a cut during the Joplin Outlaws practice Tuesday afternoon. The Outlaws open their season on Thursday night at Rossville and play seven road games before their home opener on June 5.
The Joplin Outlaws and new coach Rob Vessell have set some lofty goals for the 2012 baseball season.
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