Baylor School senior Trey Freeman earned a bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle Wednesday, the first day of the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Indianapolis, and he anchored the United States team that finished fourth in the 4×100 free relay. Freeman finished fifth in 1:47.79 in the 200 free Thursday. He set a personal record of 3:50.14 in the 400, which was won by Team USA teammate Andrew Abruzzo from Pennsylvania with Hungary’s Balazs Hollo second. Freeman’s two Baylor School and Baylor Swim Clubs representing Barbados, Jack Kirby and Luis Sebastian Weekes, also competed Wednesday, Kirby with a 23rd-place finish and personal-best 57.63 in the 100 backstroke. Weekes was 44th in the 100 breaststroke and followed Thursday by competing in the 200 individual medley.
* Baylor Tri-Masters and middle school coach Jenny Smith swam across the English Channel early last week. The 43-year-old wife and mother, yoga and meditation teacher and open-water swimmer and triathlete planned the crossing for two years, and she completed the 28 miles from Samphire Hoe between Folkestone and Dover on the English side to Cap Gris Nez near Calais, France, in 11 hours, 13 minutes, 11 seconds. She finished at 9:45 a.m. EDT on Aug. 14. “It was a surreal and an euphoric experience,” Smith said. She had a family support crew in husband Will and sons Max (15) and Zane (13), with Captain Andy King and first mate James King piloting the Louise Jane.
Fishing
* New Harrison resident Jacob Wheeler moved up from a tie for second to first in the Bassmaster Elite angler-of-the-year standings with a sixth-place first round Thursday in the tournament on Lake St. Clair in Michigan. Bradley Roy of Lancaster, Ky., leads the tournament with 23 pounds, 3 ounces for his five-bass limit, and Chad Morgenthaler of Reeds Spring, Mo., is second at 22-3. Wheeler’s 21-9 is just four ounces from third place. “This is a three-day deal. You’ve got to catch them every day. Day one just doesn’t matter,” he said about the AOY race in a B.A.S.S. release. The top 50 in the standings after this tournament move on to the decisive Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship next month on Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota.
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