By John Mesh
The Buhler High School girls swimming and diving team finished first at the Great Bend Invitational Tuesday.
The meet took place at the Barton Community College Natatorium, about three miles from Great Bend.
The Crusader girls team record is 2-0 this season.
“The team score was 391 points, earning a first-place finish as a team out of six teams,” said Buhler sim coach Shane DeWeese on the Buhler swimming and diving team’s Facebook page. “It was a solid victory for the team, but still some learning curves along the way.”
Great Bend placed third with 385 points, followed by Hutchinson with 364 and Holcomb with 288.
Buhler’s Hannah Swain won the 500-yard freestyle for the second meet in a row. Reyne Kaufman took fourth, and Cathlyna Theriot earned sixth. Ellie Keeton swam the 500 for the first time ever and at the year’s second meet.
The Buhler squad competes Thursday at the Campus Invitational.
Buhler results
200 medley relay: 2. Buhler A took 2nd place overall (Hannah Swain, Addy Tech, Aivlynn Ehmke, Grace Schmidt); 7.Buhler B (Harper Kendrick, Evey Brooks, Cathlyna Theriot, Ellie Keeton; 10.Buhler C (Ava Schmidt, Cassidy Banning, Brayla Johnson, Payton Thompson).
200 free: 2. Hannah Swain (state consideration time), 8.Cathlyna Theriot, 12.Cassidy Banning.
200 IM: 7.Grace Schmidt, 8.Ellie Goering.
50 free: 6.Aivlynn Ehmke, 8.Avery Schrader.
100 butterfly: 3.Aivylnn Ehmke, 4.Avery Schrader, 6.Ellie Goering.
100 free: 4. Grace Schmidt, 5.Addy Tech, 7.Ragen Walle.
500 free: 1.Hannah Swain, 4.Reyne Kaufman, 6.Cathlyna Theriot.
200 free relay: 4.Buhler A (Hannah Swain, Grace Schmidt, Aivlynn Ehmke, Reyne Kaufman); 7.Buhler C (Ellie Keeton, Evey Brooks, Payton Thompson, Schmidt).
100 backstroke: 7.Brayla Johnson, 9.Ragen Walle, 15.Ava Schmidt.
100 breaststroke: 5.Evey Brooks, 6.Addy Tech.
400 freestyle relay: 5. Buhler B (Cathlyna Theriot, Brayla Johnson, Ellie Goering, Ellie Keeton).