The Lassiter High School girls swimming team won its seventh consecutive Georgia High School Association state championship earlier in February at Georgia Tech.
The Lassiter girls won the Class 5A title by 62 points, led by senior Ashlyn Loftin, who concluded her career by her second straight individual title in the 100-yard breaststroke.
Loftin also finished third in 100-yard butterfly and swam the anchor leg in Lassiter’s third-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay.
The Lassiter boys won their first state title in Class 5A, including three state champions in individual events: Gavin Halusic in the 50-yard freestyle, the 400-yard freestyle relay (Halusic, Alex O’Brien, Ethan Jones, Raef Jollands) and the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Halusic, Jones, Nick Nurnberg and Lincoln Holder.
The Pope girls finished 4th and the Pope boys were 5th in the Class 5A meets.
Lassiter’s championships are the eighth for head coach Brittany Hughes, who said in a Cobb County School District release that “having the boys and girls win together was amazing.”
Hughes is a counselor at Lassiter and was recently recognized with the school’s counseling team for earnin the Cobb School Counseling Comprehensive Model Certification.
Lassiter athletic director Scott Kelly said of the school’s swimming program that “talent matters, but culture sustains excellence. There’s a clear standard of accountability and consistency that every swimmer buys into.”
Two athletes from Walton High School also earned individual state championships in February in the traditional wrestling category.
Nathaniel Park won the GHSA Class 6A title in the 144-pound weight class, cruising through his first three matches before winning the finals by a 4-2 score. Park, a sophomore, finished the season with a 58-2 record.
In the Class 6A 165-pound category, Walton’s Jake Rheaume completed a 40-0 season at the state meet in Morrow. He won the semifinals 4-3 and the finals 11-5.
The Walton boys team finished third in the Class 6A duals competition.
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- Walton Hall of Fame class includes former Little League star
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