RYAN GUSO SWIM FREE
The lone returning swimmer from that group is sophomore Ryan Guso, though, and he leaves the relays with a solid star for next season: he was a 21.5 on the second leg handing off from Ballestas.ĭressel led off Clay’s 6th-place relay in 20.52, and also swam a 21.7 in prelims on his team’s 200 medley relay that was 10th after the morning, but with him sitting out finals slipped to 16th.īallestas would then anchor a group of Juan Perez-Costa,Jose Alvarez, and Guso with a 44.8 to carry them to a win in the 400 free relay in 3:09.69. Thanks to his leadoff in the 200 of 21.01, the Wolverines won the 200 free relay with a senior-heavy group of four that included Evan Banciela on the 3rd leg and Tommy Avallone anchoring. 01 seconds behind Gainesville even while focusing their top swimmer Ballestas on the free relays. He was able to erase a two-second deficit by teammate Michael Whitehead to Gainesville and Borgert after the backstroke leg, and then his underclassmen teammates Jonathan Ratliff and Casey Pridgen held on to win.īelen Jesuit was only 3rd in that meet-opening event, though they were only.
In relay action, Mosley got the meet off to a great start in the 200 medley thanks mostly to a phenomenal 25.0 breaststroke split from Duderstadt. He was just able to hold off a furious last-50 comeback from Lance Rutkin, who made up a second-and-a-half coming home, but wound up four-tenths short in 4:25.78. The other individual winner on the day was Logan Samuelson from Fort Myers, who swam a 4:25.33 in the 500. Those are both solid drops last season, and should move him up into the next echelon of schools vying for his services in college. Olmsted won the 50 free in 20.73 and was runner-up in the 100 fly in 49.07 (behind only a 48.86 from the aforementioned McCaffrey).
They both actually swim for High Tide Aquatics: the other team in Gainesville that is beginning to make a name for itself. He trains club with cross-town rival Borgert, and though neither of them is all that big, they get a lot of power out of smaller frames. Other standouts from the meet include Gainesville-Eastside’s Wesley Olmsted. Earlier in the meet, Duderstadt had an even more significant swim to win the 200 IM in 1:50.01 – there swinging some serious points away from Gainesville runner-up Ben Borgert, who was 1:51.37 (a best time for him by three seconds as well). He swam a 55.08 to win the 100 breaststroke ahead of Devin McCaffrey from Mitchell (56.08). We also relayed, though, that a breakout was possible, and that’s exactly what happened. Duderstadt, as we shared when he committed yesterday, is relatively new to serious swimming, and came into this meet with a good, but not all-that-special, 57 in the 100 breaststroke. In what became a much tighter battle for 2nd place, Mosley High School was led by senior Michael Duderstadt past Gainesville. He should be a top-20 recruit in next fall’s senior class. That nearly broke a 20-year old State Record in the event, just missing the 44.04 set by Ricardo Busquets in 1991.ĭressel also won the 100 back in 50.08. In that 100, he lost only to Caeleb Dressel, who trains with Bolles but swims for Clay High School, who won in 44.10. He won the 200 free in 1:38.10 and placed 2nd in the 100 in 45.08. He is going to be a Michigan Wolverine next season (the same mascot as Belen Jesuit’s), and really upped his recruiting value for Mike Bottom at this meet. The boys of Belen Jesuit were led by their senior star Julian Ballestas. On the men’s side, Miami-based Belen Jesuit Prep won a slightly tighter battle ahead of Mosley High in Lynn Haven and Gainesville High School near the University of Florida. The women of Tallahassee-Chiles took the girls team title in dominating fashion, scoring 304.5 points to Riviera Beach-Suncoast’s 161 for runner-up honors.
These are the mid-sized schools, and though perhaps the names of the schools are the least recognizable, this is Florida: it’s all fast. The Florida High School State Championship meets kicked off Thursday evening in Orlando with the Division II Championships.
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