Joplin High School junior Nathan Wardlow shattered a pair of school records at Saturday’s Springfield Invitational.
Wardlow set school records in the 500-yard freestyle and the 200 IM at the meet. Wardlow recorded a time of 4:50.01 in the 500 free and 2:01.06 in the 200 IM.
The previous JHS record for the 500 free was 4:53.92 and was set by Andrew Chesney in 2015. The previous record for the 200 IM was 2:01.82 and was set by Alex Crawford in 2019.
On Saturday, Wardlow won the 500 free and he finished third in the 200 IM.
The JHS 200 medley relay team finished seventh in 1:47 and featured Wardlow, Jackson Mordica, Parker Hinman and Ian Vermillion.
Joplin’s 400 freestyle relay team of Wardlow, Vermillion, Isaiah Thom and Hinman finished eighth in 3:41.
In other highlights of Saturday’s meet, Hinman placed eighth in the 100 backstroke and 13th in the 200 IM, while Vermillion was 18th in the 100 butterfly and 20th in the 500 free and Jackson Mordica took 20th in the 100 breaststroke.
The Eagles finished 19th in the 200 freestyle relay.
Joplin finished eighth in the team standings. There were 23 full squads competing.
Rockhurst, Lafayette, Rock Bridge and Glendale were the top four teams.
Also of note, Monett’s Ryan Goodson finished seventh in the 50 freestyle and Nevada’s Kolton Evans took seventh in the 100 backstroke.
