The season came to a close for the Tyrone swim team this past weekend at the District 6 Championship meet at Penn State University’s McCoy Natatorium with senior Mikayla Harris, junior Emily Beam and Bishop Guilfoyle junior Ben McConnell leading the way for the Golden Eagles.

Coach Tom Getz took 13 successful swimmers that had met the time requirements earlier in the season to the District 6 meet on Friday February 27th and Saturday February 28th.

The group of swimmers was made up of swimmers from Tyrone, Bellwood, and Bishop Guilfoyle.

“We had a rough time keeping up with other teams when it came to a team score due to our lack of numbers. We only had 13 swimmers go to districts, which is a low number compared to other schools who had over 20 swimmers go,” said senior swimmer Samantha Aungst.

In AA team rankings, on the girls side, Richland High School won the overall meet as a team with a final team score of 201. On the boys side, Bellefonte High School won the overall meet as a team with a final team score of 262.

The Tyrone girls team was ranked overall 8/17 with a final team score of 72 with 7 Tyrone girls on the team, and the Tyrone boys team was ranked overall 9/12 with a final team score of 43 with 6 Tyrone boys on the team.

Full results of the meet can be found by clicking this link.

Tyrone Senior Mikayla Harris made the podium twice with one 5th place win out of 27 total swimmers in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 26:81 and one 6th place win out of 23 total swimmers in the 100 yard freestyle with a time of 59:51.

Tyrone Junior Emily Beam made the podium once with a 4th place win out of 20 total swimmers in the 100 yard butterfly with a time of 1:10:07.

Bishop Guilfoyle junior Ben McConnell also made the podium twice with one 6th place win out of 32 total swimmers in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 24:04 and one 5th place win out of 20 total swimmers in the 100 yard breaststroke with a time of 1:08:44.

We also had some very good swims from the other district swimmers .

The girls 200 yard medley relay team of Mikayla Harris (Backstroke), Samantha Aungst (Breaststroke), Emily Beam (Butterfly), and Anna Wolfe(Freestyle) took 5th place out of 11 teams with a time of 2:10:05, dropping almost 5 seconds from their seeded time of 2:14:89.

In the girls 200 Yard Freestyle, Allison Hosko took 14th out of 20 swimmers with a final time of 2:32:80 and Taylor Hoover took 18th out of 20 swimmers with a final time of 2:41:03.

In the boys 200 Yard Freestyle, Collin Rhoades took 14th out of 21 swimmers with a final time of 2:10:07. BG Swimmer Blake Slobodnik took 16th out of 21 swimmers with a final time of 2:11:77, and Matt Beam took 20th out of 21 swimmers with a final time of 2:35:86.

In the girls 50 Yard Freestyle, Mikayla Harris took 5th out of 27 swimmers with a final time of 26:81, and Bellwood swimmer Anna Wolfe took 22nd out of 27 swimmers with a final time of 30:97.

In the Boys 50 Yard Freestyle, BG swimmer Ben McConnell took 6th out of 32 swimmers with a final time of 24:04. BG swimmer Ryan Evanko tied for 18th place out of 32 swimmers with Westmont Hilltop’s Colton Schafer for a final time of 26:13. And Austin Quinn took 23rd out of 32 swimmers with a final time of 26:52.

The 200 Yard Freestyle relay team of Anna Wolfe, Abby Luensmann, Emily Beam and Mikayla Harris took 8th out of 12 relay teams with a final time of 1:58:23.

The 200 Yard Freestyle relay team of Austin Quinn, Collin Rhoades, Blake Slobodnik and Ben McConnell took 8th out of 11 relay teams with a final time of 1:44:52.

In the girls 100 Yard Freestyle, Mikayla Harris took 6th out of 23 swimmers with a final time of 59:51 and Emily Beam took 13th out of 23 swimmers with a final time of 1:03:35.

In the boys 100 Yard Freestyle, Collin Rhoades took 20th out of 25 swimmers with a final time of 57:64 and Austin Quinn took 22nd out of 25 swimmers with a final time of 59:84.

Blake Slobodnik took last place out of 14 swimmers in the 500 Yard Freestyle

In the girls 100 yard Breaststroke, Samantha Aungst was 9th out of 20 swimmers with a final time of 1:19:17 and Allison Hosko took 19th out of 20 swimmers with a final time of 1:29:44.

In the Boys 100 yard Breaststroke, Ben McConnell took 5th out of 20 swimmers with a final time of 1:08:44 and Ryan Evanko took 15th out of 20 swimmers with a final time of 1:18:99.

Finally, in the last event, in the girls 400 yard freestyle relay of the team of Anna Wolfe, Abby Luensmann, Taylor Hoover and Allison Hosko took 9th out of 10 relay teams with a final time of 4:46:73 and then in the boys 400 Yard freestyle relay, the team of Austin Quinn, Collin Rhoades, Blake Slobodnik, and Ben McConnell took 7th out of 11 relay teams with a final time of 3:54:61.