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Posted: Feb 19, 2017 3:56 PMUpdated: Feb 19, 2017 4:59 PM
Bartlesville Girls Swimming Wins Third Straight
Back-to-back-to-back.
It was a Lady Bruins three-peat on Friday and Saturday at the Jenks Aquatic Center, as Bartlesville won its third straight state championship in class 6A girls swimming.
BHS crushed its competition, winning by 227 points. The Lady Bruins tallied 477 team points while Edmond Memorial was the next closest with 250.
Bartlesville completes a dominating 2017 season where the girl’s team didn’t lose a meet all season. This state title came with injuries, sickness and absentness hitting BHS the past couple of months. The circumstances made Bartlesville head swim coach Chad Englehart cautiously optimistic going into the meet in Jenks.
Greta Olsen, Kate Seward, Emily Giovannetti, Delaney Shipmen, June Harris, Sydney Perry and Allison Biddinger all picked up gold medals, either individually or in relays.
For an athletic department, Bartlesville scored its seventh state title in the past three athletic years. This – less than three calendar years after a 17-year state title drought was snapped with a girl’s cross country title in 2014.
The Bruin boys fared pretty well at state as well. BHS finished in third place as a team on the guy’s side. Bartlesville finished well ahead of Edmond north for the no. three spot in the state. BHS tallied 233 team points.
Jenks narrowly won state over Norman North 359-357.
The Bruins 400 freestyle won a gold medal with a time of 3:15:28 – beating the state champion Trojans. Will Englehart, Aaron Keesling, Lukas Rietfors and Matthew Pryor combined for that win.
Keesling and Pryor both won individual state titles in the 100 breaststroke and the 500 freestyle respectively.
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