Lady Patriots win state swim championship
Sophomore Abby Chan with four gold medals, including two individual golds, to propel the Bob Jones Lady Patriots to their third consecutive AHSAA Swim State Championship. Photo by AHSAA/David Holtsford
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 By Bob Labbe  
Published 10:05 am Friday, November 29, 2024
State champs

Lady Patriots win state swim championship

This is the third consecutive state title win for the Bob Jones girls team

The Lady Patriots

James Clemens junior Laurel Hunter performed to near perfection by finishing second in the Class 7A diving at the AHSAA State Swim/Dive Championships. Photo: AHSAA/David Holtsford

HUNTSVILLE – The Bob Jones Lady Patriots won their third consecutive state championship at the 65th AHSAA Swimming and Diving State Championships held at Huntsville’s Aquatic Center.

The Patriots were led by sophomore sensation Abby Chan who won two individual state titles and helped two relay squads to victories. Overall, the Patriots took home six first place finishes while James Clemens brought home three gold medals.

Bob Jones individual titles included Chan in both the 100-yard fly and 100-yard back- stroke, Meli Mbuko in the

50-yard freestyle, girls 200yard medley relay, girls

400-yard freestyle relay and boys 200-yard freestyle relay.

For James Clemens, junior Christian Webster took home titles in both the 300-yard IM and

100-yard backstroke and Tatum Scully in the 500yard freestyle.

The final team standings were: Girls- 1. Bob Jones 268, 5. James Clemens 167.50; Boys- 3. James Clemens 223, 4. Bob Jones 196.50.

The final race results: Girls: 200-medley relay-

1. Bob Jones 1:44.71 (Abby Chan, 10, Finnley Koehler,

12, Isabelle Park, 11, Meli Mbuko, 11); 200-freestyle-

2. Tatum Scully, 11, James Clemens 1:53.72; 50-freestyle- 1. Meli Mbuko, 11, Bob Jones 23.93; 100-fly- 1. Abby Chan, 10, Bob Jones

53.82; 500-freestyle- 1. Tatum Scully, 11, James Clemens 5:07.48; 100-back-

1. Abby Chan, 10, Bob Jones 53.85, 2. Emilie Tesseneer, 11, Bob Jones 59.02;

400-free relay- 1. Bob Jones

3:32.64 (Isabelle Park, 11, Emilie Tessener, 11, Meli Mbuko, 11, Abby Chan, 10), Diving- 2. Laurel Hunter,

11, James Clemens 350.45.

Boys: 200-medley relay-

2. James Clemens 1:35.65 (Christian Wester, 11, Will Ross, 11, Jason Park, 12, Alex Kullcarni, 12); 200IM- 1. Christian Webster,

11, James Clemens 1:51.83;

100-back- 1. Christian Webster, 11, James Clemens 50.29; 200-free relay- 1. Bob Jones 1:27.68 (Braden Shankleton, 12, Justin Roh,

12, Hubert Pan, 12, William Yang, 9), 2. James Clemens

1:28.09 (Alex Kulkarni, 12, Brody Tindoll, 8, Gavin Spivey, 12, Christian Webster, 11).

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