Chesterton High School hosted the girls Sectional preliminaries on Thursday with the top 16 in each event advancing to the final rounds on Saturday. Teams participating in the Sectionals were: Calumet, Chesterton, Hobart, Knox, La Porte, Merrillville, Michigan City, North Judson-San Pierre, Portage, South Central, Valparaiso and Wheeler School.
The evening started off by announcing the names of all the senior participants followed by the National Anthem. The top 3 in each event are listed as follows:
200 Medley Relay: 1) Chesterton 1:50.60 Caylee Casbon, Aubrey Wing, Amy Socha, Marita Banta-Long
2) La Porte 1:56.00 Lauren McQuarters, Brielle Warnock, Natalie Aragon, Erin Pickford
3) Wheeler 2:00.66 Katie Wong, Gabi Gilliana, Rachel Metzger, Riley Hall
200 Freestyle: 1) Kelly Craig 1:58.18, 2) Wendy Banta-Long 1:59.57, 3) Trenee FancherKeller 2:00.43
200 IM: 1) Cara Kroeger 2:07.66, 2) Stephanie Krause 2:15:51, 3) Marita Banta-Long 2:16.79
50 Freestyle 1) Vanessa Krause 23.64, 2) Andrea Hanas 24.95 3) Brittany Borzych 25.11
100 Butterfly 1) Vanessa Krause 56.72 2) Erin Socha 59.95 3) Caylee Casbon 1:01.46
100 Freestyle 1) Andrea Hanas 54.38, 2) Marita Banta-Long 55.77 3) Erin Delahunty
500 Freestyle 1) Amy Socha 5:09.89 2) Trenee Fancher-Keller 5:21.37 3) Wendy Banta-Long 5:26.12
200 Free Relay 1) Chesterton 1:40.49 Erin Socha, Brittany Borzych, Amy Socha, Kelly Craig
2) Valparaiso 1:48.15 Anne Rastovski, Mary Cobble, Elizabeth Schlicting, Madison Simac
3) Michigan City 1:49.07 Allison Van Etten, Erin Callaghan, Elizabeth Quinlan, Jaymie Pliskey
100 Backstroke 1) Cara Kroeger 58:52, 2) Caylee Casbon 1:00.21, 3) Lauren McQuarters 1:01.29
100 Breaststroke 1) Aubrey Wing 1:08.34, 2) Kelly Craig 1:09.08, 3) Kaylee Gubricky 1:09.57
400 Free Relay 1) Chesterton 3:44.60 Meagan Curley, Trenee Fancher-Keller, Andrea Hanas, Amy Socha
2) La Porte 3:54.72 Erin Pickford, Summer Huber, Brielle Warnock, Lauren McQuarters
3) Valparaiso 3:57.21 Sophie Lutz, Mary Cobble, Elizabeth Schlicting, Marisa Johnson
Saturday Diving Preliminaries will be at 9 a.m. The swimming and diving finals will begin at 1 p.m. at Chesterton High School.