Girls swim placed third in first two meets

Lane Lewison, Staff Writer

April 16, 2024

The Manhattan High Girls Swim team started off the season hot, placing third in both of the first two meets of the season.

Last Thursday at the Emporia Invite the Indians placed third out of seven teams. In MHS’s second meet last Saturday, the Lansing Invite, they placed third out of 14 teams (13 of whom scored points).

“We were third at both of our meets so a pretty good start, with some really good teams that we’ve faced so far. We’re pretty happy with that,” head coach Alex Brown said. “We’ve had a lot of people sick and injury stuff, little things that should all be good by the end of the season. To finish that way with all of that we are pretty happy with that so far.”

Swim continues their season at the Topeka quad on Tuesday, March 26.

“It will be the first meet for a lot of our new, new swimmers,” Brown said. “They have to meet some certain requirements before you can go to a competition and this will be the first one for a lot of kids so we’ll be excited to see how our brand new swimmers are doing at this one.”

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