Swimming: Toreadors poised to capture North Central Conference glory
By BRANDON HURLEY
Sports Editor
The Boone Toreador swim team looks to build off one of the best season’s in school history and takes aim at a North Central Conference title in 2016.
Six Greene County High School girls will help make up a Toreador squad that came in second at the conference meet a year ago.
Newton took home the team title in 2015 with 363 points, a few dozen points ahead of Boone’s 316 and would go on to finish 12th at state.
The Cardinals lost 100-yard butterfly state-champion and 200-yard freestyle silver-medalist, Samantha Hedrick to graduation as well as Sydney Jenkins and Hannah Rhoads. All three were members of the state-qualifying 200-yard freestyle relay team.
Boone returns 14 swimmers including their entire school record-breaking and state-qualifying 200-meter relay squad as well as senior Erin Kokemiller, who also qualified for state in the 100-yard breast stroke. The only major contributor the Toreadors lost was diver Kennedy Bass, who qualified for state a season ago in the diving competition.
Greene County’s Haley Hall returns to the Boone team as a member of the defending conference champion relay teams in the 200-yard and 400-yard freestyle events. She also took home second in the 100-yard butterfly.
Decorah, Vinton-Shellsburg and Grinnell each return state qualifiers and round out a solid core of North Central Conference foes.
The first swim meet of the fall is a mere days away, as the Boone girls hit the pool Monday, Aug. 22 in the Des Moines Lincoln Invite.
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