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Show s Cook, Waterbury claim state swim titles ! By DALE J. NEILSON PROVO The Cedar City boys and the Murray girls did it again at the 3-A swimming finals held at Brigham Young University Saturday, as they successfully defended their respective titles. Murray ran its consecutive streak to five, while Cedar City has now won it back-to-back. Even though the Bountiful Braves didn't win the state championship, they do have two individual state champions in Jennifer Waterbury and Nathan Cook. The Bountiful girls scored 66 points, good enough for 15th place, while the boys' team was 17th place with 20 points. The Woods Cross boys tied for sixth with Box Elder at 152 points, and the girls logged five points, good enough for 22nd place. "I thought our team effort was outstanding, ' said Woods Cross coach Lynn Robinson. "We worked work-ed really hard and our effort paid off at the end. ' Bountiful coach Jack Senninger had similar feelings about his team. ' 'We had some good times; everybody statewide usually does well." Waterbury set a 3-A state record in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:12.06. She also won the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:08.75, which is a half-second off the state record. Cook, the defending defen-ding boys' state diving champion, successfully defended his title in his last three dives, totaling 414.45 points. "I don't want to sound cocky,' said Braves' diving coach Jim Perkins, "but it was kind of expected. ex-pected. He's one of the most talented tal-ented kids I ever met. His drive keeps him going." "I knew if everything went well, I'd have it," said Cook, a senior. "My most difficult dives were throughout the competition, but I saved my best for last." The two-time two-time state champion admitted he was scared when Uintah's Ryan Vincent forged ahead, but "his best dives were at the first and his worst at the end. Cook was down by 10 points after the semi-finals, "but did his last three dives well, which resulted in a 50-point swing" and the championship, cham-pionship, said Senninger. For her performance, Waterbury was nominated as a 3-A 'Female Athlete of the Year' by the state's coaches. The Bountiful junior "works really hard, because her goals are important to her," said her mother, Melinda Waterbury. Jennifer Jen-nifer spends anywhere from 2 to 5 hours per day in workouts, often beginning at 4:30 a.m. "Setting a state record was not necessarily a goal for her," Mrs. Waterbury said. "She's just incredibly in-credibly motivated, and swimming is something she wants to do. Anything she does, she gives her all." Woods Cross boys Chris Fisher swam to fourth place in the 500-yard 500-yard freestyle in 5:18.32 and Fifth in the 200 free at 1:54.23. Ryan Murry was eighth in the 500 free in 5:27.78 and 14th in the 200 free at 1:57.17. Paul Sannar finished in ninth place in the 100 free at 52.52 and in the 50 free, finished in 24.07, good enough for 14th place. Scott McDonald was 10th in the 100 breast and 12th in the 100-yard butterfly, but-terfly, with times of 1:06.73 and 59.22, respectively. Jeff Midgley swam the 100-yard backstroke in 1 :01 .90, good for eighth place. Ryan Calder was 11th in the 500 free in 5:32.10. The Lady Wildcats' score came via Angie Phillips and Melody Smith. Phillips was 14th in the 100 back in 1:14.32, while Smith finished fin-ished in 16th place in the 500 free, at 6:25.11. In other results, the Braves' Michelle Jorgensen was 15th in the 100 fly in 1:15.32 and finished in 2:37.05 in the consola tion finals of the 200 individual medley. Bountiful's 200 medley relay team of Cathy Low, Jenny Cook, Jorgensen and Waterbury placed 11th in 2:08.07. The 200 freestyle relay team of Cook, Jorgensen, Waterbury and Lisa Thompson finished fin-ished 13th in 1:58.15. The Wildcats' relay times all belong to the boys. Fisher, Midgely, Murry and Sannar completed the 400 free in 3:28.34, for fourth place. In the 200 free, Brandon Keller, Sannar, Murry and Fisher were fifth, in 1:35.95. The 200 medley relay saw the Woods Cross boys' team of Jason Smith, McDonald, Midgley and Keller finish 12th in 1:51.15. |
