Carthage won seven of 12 events on its way to victory at the COC Team Swimming Championships in Webb City on Tuesday.
The Tigers started the meet by winning the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:47.01. Kellen Freeling, Braxton McBride, William Wright and Maverick Alfin made up the relay. Wright, Freeling and McBride were joined by Aidan Nye to finish the meet with a win in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3 minutes, 34.52 seconds.
Freeling and McBride each also won two individual gold medals. Freeling won the 100-yard butterfly (57.46 points) and 100-yard backstroke (56.69 points). McBride won the 50-yard freestyle (23.15) and 100-yard freestyle (51.71).
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Wright won the 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.97), earning the Tigers their final individual gold medal.
Joplin’s Nathan Wardlow was the only swimmer to win two individual events: the 200-yard individual medley (2:02.86) and the 500-yard freestyle (4:53.72).
In the final relay event, Nixa won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:40.61. The relay featured Ethan Gordon, Quinn Cates, Levi Crowe, and Gavin Jessen. Jessen won Nixa’s only individual event, the 200-yard freestyle title, in a time of 1:54.41.
Webb City’s Grant Humphrey won the 1-meter diving competition with a score of 330.70.
individual champion
200 medley relay – Carthage (Kellen Freeling, Braxton McBride, William Wright, Maverick Alfin) – 1:47.01
200 freestyle – Gavin Jessen (Nixa) – 1:54.41
200 individual medley – Nathan Wardlow (Joplin) – 2:02.86
50 freestyle – Braxton McBride (Carthage) – 23.15
1 meter diving – Grant Humphrey (Webb City) – 330.70
100 butterfly – Kellen Freeling (Carthage) – 57.46
100 freestyle – Braxton McBride (Carthage) – 51.71
500 freestyle – Nathan Wardlow (Joplin) – 4:53.72
200 free lie relay – Nixa (Ethan Gordon, Quinn Cates, Levi Crowe, Gavin Jessen) – 1:40.61
100 Backstroke – Kellen Freeling (Carthage) – 56.69
100 Breaststroke – William Wright (Carthage) – 1:05.97
400 freestyle relay – Carthage (Braxton McBride, Kellen Freeling, Aidan Nye, William Wright) – 3:34.52
Team ranking
1. Carthage – 324
2. Webb City – 233
3. Joplin – 205
4. Nixa – 180
5. Ozark – 93
6. Republic – 92