Como Park senior Aleia Lueck wrapped her high school swimming career in style on Saturday, winning the Class A 50-yard freestyle state title with a time of 23.52 seconds, six hundredths clear of Delano’s Kaia Georges.
Lueck blew away her seed time entering the meet with a strong prelim swim, and bettered that time Saturday.
She collected more hardware in the 100 freestyle, taking second with a time of 52.17 seconds, 17 hundredths behind event champion Izzy Westling of St. Cloud Apollo.
Biebl wins as individual, relay
Mounds Park Academy’s Alaina Biebl defended her title in the 100 backstroke with a dominant time of 56.73 seconds, good for an eight-tenths victory.
That was Biebl’s second title of the meet. The first came in the day’s first event, the 200 medley relay. Biebl swam the opening leg — the backstroke — for the Panthers, who topped Visitation by nearly a second for the victory.
Joining Biebl on the winning relay were Isabella Muyres, Julia Anderson and Josie MacDonald.
Biebl finished third in the 200 individual medley. Visitation’s Merry Miller won that title with a time of 2 minutes, 5.94 seconds, 22 hundredths faster than Westling.
Miller took second place in the 100 breaststroke, just four-hundredths off Sauk Rapids Rice’s Kate Walz’s winning time of 1 minute, 3.90 seconds.
Aarness wins diving title
Hastings junior Chloe Aarness build a solid lead in Thursday’s state diving prelims and sealed the deal in Saturday’s final.
Aarness recorded a score of 465.40, 18.6 points better than Westonka’s Bailey Monette to win the state diving crown.
Team
Monticello won the team title with 227 points. Visitation was the runnerup for the second straight year with 210 points, with defending-champion Orono placing third. Mounds Park Academy finished fifth.
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