NEVADA, Mo. — Led by five event wins, the Joplin High School girls swim team won the Nevada Invitational on Thursday at the Osage Prairie YMCA.
Joplin finished with 460 team points to claim the team championship. Bolivar (296), Marshfield (295), Nevada (277) and Seymour (96) rounded out the team standings.
Joplin’s Kiki Thom won two individual events. Thom took first in the 200 IM with a time of 2:37 and also won the 100-yard butterfly in 1:12.
Lily Rakes won the 200-yard freestyle in 2:31 and Taegen Smith took first in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:26.
Joplin’s 400 freestyle relay team of Thom, Allysun Higdon, Lydia Barwick and Rakes took first with a time of 4:43.
The Eagles finished second in the 200 medley relay, with Rakes, Smith, Thom and Mairi Beranek competing.
Brylea Smith was the runner-up in two events, the 100 fly and the 100 breaststroke.
Finishing third were Taegen Smith (200 IM), Evelyn Watson (100 fly), Izzy Zamanzadeh (500 free) and Beranek (100 backstroke).
Joplin’s 200 freestyle relay team of Beranek, Barwick, Zamanzadeh and Brylea Smith finished fourth.
Placing fourth in their individual events were Barwick (200 IM), Gwen Zamanzadeh (500 free), Rakes (100 backstroke) and Barwick (100 breaststroke).
Nevada’s individual event winners were Avery Morris (100 fly, 100 backstroke), Mary Kate Russell (50 free) and Chloe Morris (500 free).
The Tigers won the 200 medley relay in 2:12 and the 200 free relay in 1:55. Both relays featured Avery Morris, Avery Ogle, Chloe Morris and Russell.
