Swim team places 14th at state

Staff Reports

Four Drippin Springs High Schoo swimmers posted historic performances at the UIL 6A State Meet last weekend at the Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin to lift the Tigers to a 14thplace team finish.

The quartet of Izzy Boldrick, Anna Hoskovec, Laurel Hoskovec and Macie McCurry recorded a school-record time of 1:37.63 in the 200-yard freestyle relay preliminaries on Friday to place sixth and qualify for Saturday’s finals. The team improved upon their record time in the finals with 1:37.01 to finish sixth and earn 26 team points for the Tigers.

In the 50-yard freestyle, McCurry timed 23.90 to place 10th in the consolation finals, climbing six spots from her 16th-place finish in the prelims to earn seven points in the team standings. Anna Hoskovec also competed individually with an 18th-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle, breaking her own school record with a time of 5:03.96.

The quartet closed out the state meet in the 400-yard freestyle 11 th and recording 12 points with a school-record time of 3:30.84. Mc-Curry’s 100-yard leg of the relay also broke a school record with a time of 52.06.

Dripping Springs finished with 45 points to place 14th out of 58 schools to earn its highest team placement as a 6A school in program history.

From left to right: Assistant Coach Andrea McCarthy, Izzy Boldrick, Macie McCurry, Laurel Hoskovec, Anna Hoskovec and Head Coach Michael Hoskovec at the state meet. PROVIDED BY DSISD ATHLETICS.