It was a record-setting two days for the Park High swimmers at the 2022 MSHSL Boys AA Swim & Dive Championships Friday and Saturday. Seniors Matt Glenna, Ethan Anderson, Evan Darling and junior …
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It was a record-setting two days for the Park High swimmers at the 2022 MSHSL Boys AA Swim & Dive Championships Friday and Saturday.
Seniors Matt Glenna, Ethan Anderson, Evan Darling and junior Mitchell LeMay established a new school standard in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:28.69. Park’s splits were 21.98 for Glenna, 22.24 for Anderson, 22.97 for Darling and 21.50 for LeMay. Park finished 13th overall, taking fifth place in the consolation finals.
“That relay did amazing with what they wanted to do and how they did it,” said Park head coach Amanda Johnson.
The 200 relay actually knocked down the school record in three straight races, first at sections, broke it Friday in the prelims and then again in the finals.
“They broke it by far again today,” said Johnson. “We dropped a whole second off that record at least.”
Super senior Glenna broke two more school records, swimming to a time of 1:43.33 in the 200-yard freestyle preliminaries. Glenna placed 12th overall in the 200 freestyle, swimming to a fourth-place finish in the consolation finals in 1:43.86.
Then in the 100-yard freestyle, Glenna was even better, finishing second in the consolation finals and10th overall with a time of 47.39, besting his prelim time of 47.57.
Glenna leaves Park with school records in the 100 (47.57), 200 (1:43.33), 500 (4:48.34) and as part of the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:28.69) and the 400-meter freestyle relay (3:16.05). It may be some time before Glenna’s name is replaced on the Park High school record board.
LeMay finished 16th overall in the 100-yard butterfly in a time of 52.36. He swam a personal best of 51.05 race in the prelims. He was 21st in the 50-yard freestyle preliminaries in 21.93 and didn’t advance to Saturday’s finals.
At state, the top eight swimmers or teams advance to the championship finals, the next eight swim in a consolation race.
“They did amazing,” Johnson added. “It’s a great group. I couldn’t have asked for anything better.”
Senior Matt Glenna leaves with almost every Park freestyle swim record in his name. Photo by John Molene.
