Swimming

There were several reasons why the Cape Central High School girl’s swimming and diving team improved its production at this season’s MSHSAA Class 1 State Finals from 187 points a year ago to 224 points this year, but none were more obvious than having divers Tommy-Anne Marriott and Lydia Cao actually be available for the meet.

In the face of adversity throughout the 2022-23 MSHSAA swimming and diving season, the Cape Central girl’s swim team took it upon itself to find joy, instead of frustration. The result was a third-place finish in the 2023 MSHSAA State Finals on Saturday at the St. Peters Rec-Plex.

Cape Central defeated Notre Dame and Saxony Lutheran 148-101-7 at Cape Central High School. The Tigers ran away with the win by finishing first in nine of the 11 events while Notre Dame finished first in the remaining two events. Cape is next at Perryville on Monday while Notre Dame and Saxony will compete in the SEMO Conference Tournament on Tuesday...

It was going to be a season where head coach Beth Lewis would just throw a bunch of ideas in the pool and see what would stick. With a young girls swimming roster in tow, Lewis and her squad entered the 2022-23 season with measured expectations to go along with the athletic talent on hand that needed to figure things out in the water...

Cape Central took a second-place finish on Monday night at the St. Peters RecPlex, finishing in front of Holt but behind Fort Zumwalt West. The Tigers won five events – the 200 Freestyle, Lydia Cao’s diving win, the 200 Free Relay, the 100 Backstroke and the 100 Breaststroke – en route to a 117-point finish. The Tigers finished just eight points behind Fort Zumwalt West’s 125...

The Cape Central girls swim team broke two longstanding records en route to a fifth-place finish at the Kirkwood Invitational on Saturday, winning 221 points and finishing above nine other in-state teams. Central’s Emilie Dickson won the 200-yard individual medley, breaking the school record set in 1996 at the state competition by Erin Vogt and finishing with a 2:10.11 time to narrowly edge out a Parkway West swimmer for the win...

It was a solid result for a litmus test of competition for the Poplar Bluff Lady Mules swim team Thursday night at Southeast Missouri State University. The squad participated in the SEMO Conference Rec Relays and finished third behind winners Cape Central (96) and Jackson (60), just five points short of the runner-up spot with 56 points...

For Beth Lewis and her Poplar Bluff girls swimming and diving team, it’s all about taking advantage of learning opportunities in 2023. A young roster of Lady Mules continues to improve and especially in relays, so why not partake in today’s Southeast Missouri Conference Rec Center Relays on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University?...

Cape Central traveled north to take on John Burroughs in a dual meet and dominated the Bombers, winning 106-62 to improve its dual record to 2-1 for the season. Central’s next action comes on Thursday as the Tigers compete in the Rec Center Relays at Southeast Missouri State University...

It may not have been the ideal team result, but make no mistake, a lot of good came from the Poplar Bluff Lady Mules swimming dual Tuesday at the Black River Coliseum swimming pool. The Lady Mules fell 117-52 to an experienced West Plains squad, but when the event had ended all three relay teams made their mark on the scene for Poplar Bluff...

The Cape Central girls swimming team finished second in the City of Roses Invitational on Saturday in the SEMO Rec Center. The Tigers scored 281.5 points. Cor Jesu won the tournament with 353.5 points. Jackson finished fifth with 133 points and Notre Dame finished seventh with 87 points...

Cape Central opened its girls swim season with a dominant 104-51 win at Farmington on Tuesday, winning every meet event in the process. Kaleigh Fisher (200 Free), Avery Criblez (200 Medley), Natalie Voshage (50 Free, 100 Backstroke) and Isabella Pattengill (500 Free, 100 Breaststroke) all won individually for the Tigers in the meet, with Central taking team wins in the 200 Medley, 200 Free and 400 Free relays...

The Poplar Bluff girls swim team finished 12th out of the 12-team Ladue Horton Watkins Invitational Saturday and managed to bring back some solid results to work from going forward. The Lady Mules saw freshman Keira Willis take seventh place in the 25-yard freestyle (12.88) and eighth place in the 50-yard freestyle (27.75) and sophomore Lily Wilson also took eighth in the 1-meter diving competition with a score of 152.25...

The Poplar Bluff girls swimming and diving team opened up its newest campaign with a look that is just as fresh as the season just begun. Lady Mules head coach Beth Lewis watched as her girls won their opening triangular against Notre Dame and Saxony Lutheran Tuesday in Poplar Bluff and that was a welcome result for a coach looking at a rebooted set of faces hoping to push the program to another level...

ST. PETERS, Mo. — Cape Central sophomore Phineas Theall received All-State honors for the second straight year during Saturday's Class 1 state swimming championships at the City of St. Peters Rec Plex. Theall took fifth place in the 200-yard freestyle and finished sixth in the 100-yard butterfly...

ST. PETERS, Mo. — While the none of the Jackson Indians' swimmers made it to the finals in their first year in Class 2, each individual and relay recorded its best time on the season at the MSHSAA State Swimming Championships on Thursday at the City of St. Peters Rec-Plex...

For the second consecutive year, the Jackson Indians boys swim team finished second at the SEMO Conference meet. With four first-place finishes, including taking first through third place in the 100-yard backstroke, the Indians compiled 336 points at the Southeast Missouri State University Student Aquatic Center in Cape Girardeau, finishing behind Poplar Bluff's 404 points...

CAPE GIRARDEAU — The Poplar Bluff Mules boys swim team repeated as SEMO Conference champions, but make no mistake, this performance may be more impressive considering all the scoring numbers they lost from last year’s squad. Poplar Bluff won the meet with 404 points, 68 ahead of runner-up Jackson. Cape Central was third with 279 points, while Farmington was fourth with 249. Saxony Lutheran (236 points) and Notre Dame (216) rounded out the field,...

The Southeast Missouri Conference swim meet is set for 5 p.m. today and the hope is the Mules of Poplar Bluff can more than make their presence known. The SEMO Aquatic Center in Cape Girardeau will be the place to be and the Mules along with Notre Dame, Saxony, Cape Central, Jackson and Farmington boys teams will all hit the water in hopes of making waves...

Cape Central took a win on Tuesday in a three-team meet against Notre Dame and Saxony Lutheran, winning with a score of 92 to Notre Dame’s 86 and Saxony Lutheran’s 85. Cape Central’s Noah McRaven (200 Free), Phineas Theall (50 Free, 100 Backstroke) and Creighton Edmundson (100 Free) all won individual events, while Saxony Lutheran’s Mason Landewee (200 Medley), Tom Hasz (100 Butterfly) and Jesse Schupp (500 Free, 100 Breaststroke) won individual events for the Crusaders...

High School swimming roundup, Oct. 22-24: Cape Central's Phineas Theall medals at Springfield Invitational Semoball Cape Central sophomore Phineas Theall medaled in the 500-yard freestyle at Saturday's Springfield Invitational at Hickory Hills Middle School...

Jackson hosted Fort Zumwalt West on Tuesday, taking a narrow 88-79 loss to the Jaguars. The Indians got first-place individual finishes from Wade Lavalle in the 200 Freestyle, Tim Deyong in the 50 and 500 Freestyles, Luke Tally in the 100 Freestyle, Jace Glenn in the 100 Breaststroke and team wins in the 200 and 400 Freestyle Relays...

POPLAR BLUFF — After losing by three points to Jackson in a meet Friday during which they were disqualified in four events, Poplar Bluff swimmers were in those same events Tuesday. The Mules won all but two events and didn’t get a single DQ in beating Cape Central 110-56 at the Black River Coliseum...

Jackson defeated Poplar Bluff in a tight contest, just outpacing the Mules by a three-point margin. Out of the 11 races, the Indians were able to capture first place in eight, leaving Poplar Bluff with the remaining three. Sophomore Wade LaVelle led Jackson, finishing in first place in both the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard freestyle...

The Cape Central boys swim team entered the 400-yard freestyle relay with the slightest 59-58 edge over the Farmington Knights at home, but finished with a three-point loss with a second-place finish in the relay. Had sophomore Phineas Theall and senior Adam Sparks not finished first and second in the 100 breaststroke event respectively, Cape Central wouldn’t have climbed out of a 49-55 hole entering the event to begin with. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Poplar Bluff’s depth helped the Mules swim team win the Rec Relays on Friday afternoon at Southeast Missouri State University. With a pair of wins and four second-place finishes, the Mules had as many points as Jackson in the nine-event meet...

Poplar Bluff swimmers swept the relays while Carson Todd was first to the wall in two events and Henry Duncan won another Tuesday. The Mules won their home opener with 134 points as Notre Dame scored 54 and Saxony Lutheran finished with 24. Poplar Bluff took the top two spots in two of the three relays and two individual events...

A season-opening swim meet between rivals Cape Central and Jackson saw a number of lead changes but eventually settled into a 79-63 Tigers win. Separated by just four points entering the 400 Free Relay, Cape Central took all twelve points to secure a 16-point victory and its first win of the season...

By BRIAN ROSENER Sports Editor The Poplar Bluff boys swimming program checked off a lot of major milestones last season — a first conference championship and a first appearance at state. Now in their fifth year back in the pool, the Mules have given themselves those same goals this fall...

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With one of the state’s top swimmers in Nate Thomas electing to forego his sophomore season, the Jackson boys swimming team is hopeful it can carry over its success from 2021. Thomas finished second in the Class 1 200-yard individual medley and third place in the 100-yard backstroke as a freshman, but decided to step down from Jackson’s high school team to focus on swimming with his club team...

Dayna Powell, Cape Girardeau Central High's swimming and diving head coach, was named the 2021-2022 Girls, Class 1, Coach of the Year by the Missouri Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association. "Winning coach of the year was really exciting," Powell said. "I've never had that honor before. That was really nice."...

Cape Central High School sophomore diver Tommy-Anne Marriott endured the gut-wrenching frustration of missing out on an opportunity to pursue a MSHSAA Class 1 State Swimming and Diving Finals last February. However, that doesn’t mean that she was incapable of receiving her due adulation.

Call it freshman nerves, first-year jitters, or whatever you want, but Cape Central swimmer Emilie Dickson didn’t enjoy as strong as a second day in the 2021 MSHSAA Class 1 State Swim Finals as she did in the preliminary round. “Her freshman year,” veteran Tiger swim coach Dayna Powell said, “she had a little bit of pressure on her going into state. She had really come on in her freshman year, toward the end. But I don’t think that she was happy with her freshman year, state meet, results.”

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — For the third consecutive year, Portageville claimed the Best Fans Awards at the 2022 Semoball Awards on Friday, July 8, at LaCroix Church in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Nearly 40,000 total votes were cast from May 2 to May 31, with all schools in the Semoball coverage area eligible. Each week, the list was narrowed down based on votes until the final five schools remained. The five finalists were Bernie, East Prairie, Poplar Bluff, Portageville, and Sikeston...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO. — The Charleston Bleu Racers wrapped up a successful 2022 season at the Southeast Missouri Swim Conference (SMSC) Championship at Central Municipal Pool in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, July 16. The team had several athletes set personal records, while Hannah Bledsoe, Mary Stella Bryant and James Bryant all earned high point trophies in their respective age divisions...

The Kennett Killer Whales won their final home meet of the year Saturday against Charleston, securing an undefeated season as they look to defend their championship title going into this Saturday's Southeast Missouri Swim Conference championship meet in Cape Girardeau...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — The season is winding down for the Charleston Blue Racers and two of the biggest meets of the year are just around the corner. The swim team has competed at meets in nearby towns like Kennett, Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff, Ste. Genevieve, Perryville and Farmington on Saturdays for the past month. The next meet all be July 9 at Kennett, followed by the Southeast Missouri Swim Conference (SMSC) Championship Meet at Cape Girardeau on July 16...

Kennett has been dominating Southeast Missouri this summer, but make no mistake – this isn't about the Indians – it's about the Killer Whales swim team. With massive strength in numbers, Kennett has come out on top of all three meets in which they've competed this year...

There have been few athletic careers at the high school level in this state that rival what Anelle Harris achieved over the past four seasons at Kennett High School. But for those that thought Harris’ feats wrapped up in leading the Indians to third place in the recent MSHSAA Class 2 Softball State Finals, they would be mistaken.

Winter finalists, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, have been announced for the 2022 Semoball Awards, presented by SoutheastHEALTH. This year's event — which returns to its roots as the awards show goes back to a gala-style format following two years of alternative plans due to the COVID-19 pandemic — will take place on Friday, July 8, at LaCroix Church (3102 Lexington Ave.) in Cape Girardeau, Mo...

The diving career of Jackson High School senior Hadley Wyatt has been one of steady progression. So, it is only natural that she is now taking yet another step upwards in competition to challenge herself.