Less than five years ago, Fort Campbell put just a handful of swimmers in the pool at the Region I Swim Meet. Fast forward to the present and the Falcon swimmers are putting hardware in the trophy case.
Fort Campbell finished as region runner-up and will send six swimmers and two relay teams to the KHSAA state first round this week.
The Falcons’ 320 points were 55 points behind region champion Murray and nine points ahead of third-place Madisonville.
The Falcons had a pair of region champions in Brody Sharp (100-yard backstroke) and Jonah Weisbrich (100-yard breaststroke). The duo also was part of the 400-yard freestyle relay team that came from third place with a leg to go to winning the region title.
The KHSAA tweaked the format for the state swim meet for the third time in four years. There are three sites for the state first round with Regions 1-3 swimming at Russell County High School on Saturday. The top three finishers in each event will then advance to the KHSAA State Swimming Championships presented by UK Healthcare on Feb. 23-24 in Lexington.
RESULTS
Brody Sharp – 1st in the 100-yard backstroke (59.16) and 3rd in the 50-yard freestyle (23.34).
Jonah Weisbrich – 1st in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:02.21) and 2nd in the 200-yard IM (2:11.53).
John Stultz – 3rd in the 200-yard freestyle (1:58.59) and 3rd in the 100-yard butterfly (59.55).
Sharp, Weisbrich, and Stultz each qualified for the KHSAA state first round in their events.
Branson Bussy – 5th place in the 100-yard freestyle (59.32) and 8th place in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:18.04).
Aiden Gallahan – 6th in the 100-yard butterfly (1:07.69) and 7th in the 200-yard IM (2:43.54)
John Ford – 8th in the 200-yard freestyle (2:21.97) and 9th in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:22.45).
Christopher Talbot – 8th in the 100-yard freestyle (1:02.28) and 12th in the 50-yard freestyle (26.33).
Sam McNab – 12th in the 200-yard freestyle (2:29.92) and 19th in the 50-yard freestyle (33.50).
The 400-yard freestyle relay team of John Stultz, Luke Szody, Jonah Weisbrich, and Brody Sharp took first place in 3:34.72, knocking off nearly ten seconds from their previous best time. The same quartet finished in second place in 1:47.20. Both teams will advance to the state first round.
The 200-yard free relay team of Aiden Gallahan, Branson Bussy, John Ford, and Christopher Talbot finished in 4th place in 1:46.82.
