The Lassiter girls swimming team got strong performances from their relay teams Saturday to win the Georgia High School Association Class 6A-7A championships at Georgia Tech.
The Lady Trojans tallied 332.5 points, followed by Brookwood with 307 and Walton with 291 points.
(You can find the full results here.)
Lassiter won its first relay race, the 200-yard medley, with a time of 1:47.34, featuring a team of Elizabeth Blanco, Kennadi King, Elizabeth Tilt and Lindsey Johnson.
In the 200-yard freestyle relay, Blanco and Johnson were joined by Allison Brown and Frances Carson to win with a time of 1:36.22.
The Walton team of Jasmin Hoffman, Abby Belinski, Isabella Decker and Elizabeth Isakson finished fourth in that race, with a time of 1:36.63.
In the 400-yard freestyle relay, Walton (Hoffman, Belinski, Isakson and Annalia Janson) was second at 3:29.72, and Lassiter (Carson, Brown, King and Tilt) came in third with a time of 3:30.67.
Tilt won the girls 7A race in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 54.85 in Lassiter’s only individual winner, and she was second in the 200-yard medley (2:04.04). Aiding the Lady Trojans’ cause was Blanco, who was second in the 100-yard backstroke (56.67); Carson, who came in third in the 200-yard freestyle (1:52.13); and Kayleigh Clark, who was fourth in the 1-meter diving event (485.75).
Lassiter was dominant in girls swimming several years ago, winning four consecutive state titles from 2008-11, and also in 2005.
East Cobb state swimming champions
- 1983—Walton boys
- 1988—Walton girls
- 1999—Pope boys
- 2005—Lassiter girls
- 2008-11—Lassiter girls
- 2014-15—Walton boys
- 2017—Walton girls
- 2018—Pope boys
- 2020—Lassiter girls
The Pope girls finished in 23rd place with 108 points, and Wheeler was 37th with 40 points.
In other girls individual events, Walton’s Jasmin Hoffman was second in the 50-yard freestyle race with a time of 23.51, and Walton’s Elizabeth Isakson was third in the 100-yard breastroke at 1:04.98.
The highest finisher for an East Cobb boys team was Pope, which was 4th in the Class 6A meet with 224 points, well behind 6A-7A champion Dalton, which had 445 points.
Walton was 18th with 140 points, Lassiter 22nd with 109 points and Wheeler 53rd with six points.
In individual races, Lassiter’s Brendan Hausdorf was second in the 200-yard freestyle, coming in second with a time of 1:39.56. He also was fourth in the 500-yard freestyle (4:35.35).
Pope’s Gabe Lacasella was third in the 50-yard freestyle (21.21), and the Greyhounds’ Eli Lubell was third in 1-meter diving with 415.10 points.
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