A sweep of all three relays and depth in general propelled the Baylor School boys to their 25th state swimming and diving championship this past weekend at the Allan Jones Aquatic Center in Knoxville. It was the seventh title in nine years for the Baylor boys.
Girls Preparatory School was third and Baylor fourth in the TISCA girls' competition, won by Harpeth Hall with 250 points. Hardin Valley edged GPS for second, 210 to 194, and Baylor totaled 153 points.
The Baylor boys accumulated 273 points to 201 for second-place Memphis University School. They won the 200-yard medley relay in 1:32.20 with Chandler Espy, Matthew Boyer, Christian Selby and Gershwin Greene, and the same group except with Selby going first won the 200 free relay.
Selby, Jack Best, Will Raines and Trey Freeman capped off the state meet with a victory in the 400 free relay.
Individually, Selby was second in the 50 freestyle after breaking former teammate Luke Kaliszak's state record with a time of 20.41 seconds and Freeman, a freshman, was third and set Southeastern Swimming 13-14 boys' records in the 200 and 500 frees with Best sixth in the 200 and Espy sixth in the 100 backstroke. Baylor's Ryan Smith and Alec Chennault were third and fifth in 1-meter diving, and McCallie's Eamon McFadden was sixth.
GPS set school relay records with a first-place 200 medley finish of 1:44.69 -- an automatic All-American time for April Forsthoffer, Susanna LaRochelle, Kristen Myers and Anna Ward -- and a third-place 400 free (3:27.99) from the same foursome. LaRochelle also set school records with her second-place 200 individual medley (2:02.56), her second-place 100 breaststroke (1:03.39) and her leadoff 100 free (51.09) in the 400 relay.
Forsthoffer was third behind LaRochelle in the 200 IM, with Baylor's Maggie Stovall and Caroline Boone sixth and eighth, and Forsthoffer was second in a school-record 55.76 with Myers seventh in the 100 butterfly. Baylor's Missy Karman and LeeAnne McMaster were third and eighth in the 50 free, and teammate Hannah Gill was fifth in the 500 free.
Karman, Stovall, Boone and McMaster were the runners-up in the 200 free relay, with GPS's Myers, Sarah Malloch, Katherine Ward and Brianne Holsomback fifth. Stovall, Karman, Boone and Gill were sixth to GPS's third in the 400 free relay.
Qynn Celichowski of GPS was eighth in 1-meter diving.