The McIntosh High School swim team won first overall and first in the men’s and women’s competition in a quad meet against three out-of-county schools at Lundquist Natatorium in Clayton County Wednesday. Their victory followed a third-place team finish at the Clayton County December Invitational (men second, women sixth).

Many of the team’s top swimmers missed the December Invitational to compete with the SCAT team in the Georgia State Senior Championships.

The Chiefs placed first in all of the relay events at the quad meet: men’s 200-medley relay (juniors Alex Harmon and Adam Otaki, sophomore Jim Roddenbery and Freshman Jack Beall); men’s 200-freestyle relay (seniors Corbin Heard, Chris Larson and Tyler Cordell and sophomore Lukas Love); men’s 400-freestyle relay (Harmon, Otaki, Roddenbery and Beall); women’s 200-medley relay (senior Keaton Hannon, junior Ariane Leblond, sophomore Kaitlin Rassett and freshman Ariann Berg); women’s 200-freestyle relay (Hannon, Leblond, Berg and junior Allison Gair); women’s400-freestyle relay (junior Sara Trapaga, sophomores Rebekah Anders and Whitney Manning, and freshman Taylor Day).

The men won all of their individual events, including 200-freestyle (Harmon), 200-individual medley (Heard), 50-freestyle (Jack Beall), 100-butterfly (Otaki), 100-freestyle (Roddenbery), 500-freestyle (Harmon), 100-backstroke (Cordell), and 100-breaststroke (Otaki). The women added firsts in 200-freestyle (Gair), 200-individual medley (Hannon), 100-butterfly (Hannon), 500-freestyle (Berg) and 100-breaststroke (Berg).

Keaton Hannon has qualified for state in two events, 200-individual medley and 100-butterfly, while Ariann Berg has made a positive impact on the team with her strong swimming in her freshman season, including two McIntosh school records in the 500-freestyle (5:21.95) and 100-breaststroke (1:08.28), both state qualifying times.

Alex Harmon has already qualified for state in the 200-freestyle and 500-freestyle, and Adam Otaki has qualified in the 200-individual medley, 100-butterfly, 500-freestyle and 100 breaststroke.

The men’s relay teams for the 200-medley and 400-freestyle have qualified for state (Harmon, Otaki, Beall and Roddenbery), as has the 200-freestyle relay team (Heard, Cordell, Larson and Love). The women’s relay teams have turned in state-qualifying results in the 200-medley (Hannon, Leblond, Berg and sophomore Chanel Ranes), the 200-freestyle relay (Hannon, Berg, Leblond and Trapaga) and the 400-freestyle relay (Hannon, Berg, Leblond and Trapaga).

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