CARTHAGE, Mo. — Carthage senior Madison Riley took home top honors at the Iron Woman Pentathlon on Tuesday at the Fair Acres Family YMCA.
Riley was awarded the overall title of Iron Woman and received a commemorative plaque after winning three events at the special meet, which saw swimmers compete in five events—the 100-yard individual medley, the 100 butterfly, the 100 backstroke, the 100 breaststroke and the 100 freestyle.
Riley won the butterfly in 1:01, the breaststroke in 1:16 and the freestyle in 56 seconds.
Riley was also the runner-up in two events, the IM and the backstroke.
Carthage’s Aubree Santillan finished third in the backstroke and teammate Olivia Manning placed third in the breaststroke and was fourth in both the fly and the backstroke.
Carl Junction’s Chloe Miller won the IM in 1:04, took second in the free and finished third in the fly.
CJ’s Skyler Sundy took first in the backstroke in 1:04, finished third in both the IM and free and was fourth in the breaststroke.
Carl Junction’s Madeleine Garoutte took second in two events, the fly and the breaststroke. She was also fourth in the free.
Joplin coach Juliana Hughes noted eight different Eagles completed all five events— freshman Lydia Barwick, senior Mairi Beranek, senior Brooklyn Hiller, freshman Brylea Smith, senior Taegen Smith, junior Kiki Thom, senior Megan Walser and sophomore Izzy Zamanzadeh.
“We were so proud of all the swimmers on the team for trying events they don’t normally swim competitively,” Hughes said. “Swimming these events back to back isn’t an easy task. Overall, we had several swimmers get their best time in one or more events.”
Thom placed fifth in two events, the 100 butterfly and the 100 freestyle.
The top six swimmers in each event were medalists.
Carl Junction compiled the most team points (375.5), with Carthage second (289), Joplin third (84) and Jasper fourth (26.5).
