By GRAHAM POWELL
Leader sportswriter
The Sherwood Sharks swim team put together another dominant performance at its most recent swim meet last Saturday in Sherwood, as the Sharks won the two-team, 33-event meet by racking up 1,210 team points, bettering the Maumelle Marlins’ total of 407 team points.
Christopher Heye and Quanderrius Doss were the top male swimmers for the Sharks in the 15-18 year old age group. Heye and Doss each posted the top overall times in two different individual events.
Heye’s top times came in the 50-yard breaststroke and 100-yard individual medley events. He finished the breaststroke in 29.25 seconds, and was the only swimmer to finish the IM under one minute. He finished that event in 56.81 seconds. Each finishing time was good for the platinum ranks, the most prestigious time range to finish in.
Doss’ top times came in the 50-yard freestyle and 50-yard butterfly events, and both were also good for the platinum ranks. He finished the freestyle race in 23.38 seconds, and the butterfly in 25.81 seconds.
The only female Shark swimmer to post a top overall time in that age group was Rebecca Green, who won the 50-yard breaststroke event with a time of 40.53.
In the 13-14 year old age group, Sherwood’s Jordan Woodson posted top times in three different individual events to lead the boys’ division, while teammate Camryn Jenkins posted top times in four different individual events to lead the girls.
All three of Woodson’s top times were in the platinum time range. He finished the 50-yard backstroke event in 30.84 seconds, the 50-yard breaststroke in 34.12 seconds, and took first overall in the 100-yard IM with a time of 1:05.31.
Jenkins had platinum finishes in three of the four individual races she posted top times in. She finished the 50-yard freestyle event in 28.47, the 50-yard backstroke in 32.60, the 100-yard IM in 1:14.16, and her top time of 31.06 in the 50-yard butterfly race was good for a gold finish.
For the 11-12 year olds, Sherwood’s Joseph Potts posted best times in three different individual races to lead the boys’ division, and teammate Maycee Broadway had a top-time finish in the 50-yard breaststroke event with a gold time of 43.97.
Potts’ top-time events came in the 50-yard freestyle, 50-yard butterfly and 100-yard IM events, and all three were platinum finishes. He finished the freestyle in 28.35, the butterfly in 31.65 and the IM in 1:11.81.
The Sharks’ top swimmers for the 9-10 year old age group were Avery Ballany, who had best overall times in four different individual events in the girls’ division, and Dillon Wood, who had top times in three different individual events to lead the boys.
Three of Ballany’s four events earned platinum finishes, and Wood got a platinum finish in two of his three top-time events. Ballany’s platinum finishes came in the 50-yard freestyle, 50-yard backstroke and 50-yard butterfly events.
She finished the freestyle in 33.19, the backstroke in 40.45 and the butterfly in 36.81. Her top time in the 100-yard IM event, 1:25.78, was good for the gold ranks.
Wood’s platinum finishes came in the 50-yard backstroke and 50-yard breaststroke events. He won the backstroke with a time of 40.19, and the breaststroke with a time of 43.72, while his top time in the 50-yard butterfly race, 36.87, earned him a gold finish.
In the 7-8 year old age group, Shark swimmers Michael Potts and Madelynn Morrow each had top overall times in four different individual events, and all were in the platinum ranks.
Michael Potts’ top-time events in the boys’ division came in the 25-yard freestyle, 25-yard breaststroke, 25-yard butterfly and 100-yard IM races, while Morrow’s top times in the girls’ division came in the freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and IM races.
Michael Potts won the freestyle with a time of 15.16, the breaststroke with a time of 20.37, the butterfly with a time of 16.53 and the IM with a time of 1:24.64. Morrow finished the freestyle in 16.97, the backstroke in 19.82, the butterfly in 18.41 and the IM in 1:37.22.
Sophie Gaylord was the only Shark swimmer in the 6-under age group to win multiple individual events for both the boys’ and girls’ divisions. Her top times came in three different individual events – the 25-yard freestyle and breaststroke races, as well as the 100-yard IM.
She finished the freestyle race in 23.90, the breaststroke in 33.32 and the IM in 2:14.47, and all three times were in the gold ranks.
In addition to all of the success the Sharks had in the individual races, they won every race in every age group and division in the 100-yard freestyle relay event, except for the girls’ 12-under division.