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![PHOTO BY JEFF MAY Junior Kylie May and senior Abigail Owens], teammates and close friends, celebrate after both swimming personal best times in the Girls 200 Yard Individual Medley.](https://static2.drippingspringsnews.com/data/articles/xl-swim-teams-finish-strong-at-district-advance-to-regionals-1770160009.jpg "Swim teams finish strong at district, advance to regionals")
Sophomore Carson Woertink swims in the Boys 100 Butterfly.
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Senior Zach Collins (center) takes the podium for his first place win in the Boys 50 Freestyle, with a time of 21.44s. Miguel Gomez and Jude Yacoub of Westlake took second and third.
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The Lady Tigers took second place at the district meet.
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Freshman Jacob May swims the backstroke leg in the Boys 200 Individual Medley.
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Freshman Charlotte Riffel swims in the Girls 500 Freestyle, finishing in 4th place.
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The Dripping Springs High School swim team takes a series of warmup dives before the start of the District 26-6A Championship swim meet.
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Both of the Dripping Springs swim teams competed in the 26-6A District swim meet at the Round Rock Aquatic Center. As usual, the strong program acquitted itself very well and will be sending 17 qualifiers, including all six relays, to the regional meet this weekend at San Antonio. The Lady Tigers’ 131 points were a close second to champion Westlake (148). The Tigers scored 68 to finish fourth behind Westlake, Lake Travis and Bowie. 46 swimmers were able to have personal best to show the improvement during the season. Coach Mike Hoskovec was named Coach of the Year.
Top three finishers: Girls: Laurel Hoskovec: 2. 200 & 500 Free; Fairlane Bynum: 2. 50 & 100 Free; Izzy Boldrick: 2. 200 IM; 2. 200 Free Relay: (Hoskovec, Bynum, Charlotte Riffel, Lexi Landrum); 2. 400 Free Relay: (Riffel, Landrum, Boldrick, Hoskovec); Boldrick: 3. 100 Back; Landrum: 3. 100 Free; Riffel: 3. 200 Free; 3. 200 Medley Relay (Sidney Blake, Aubrey McLean, Bynum, Boldrick).
Top three: Boys: 1. 50 Free: Zack Collins (21.44); 1. 100 Free: Collins (46.06); 3. 200 Free Relay (Collins, Harrison Woolard, Chasyn Jones, Noah Beers).
Other regional qualifiers: Girls: Eva Alford (500 Free); Maddie Hovatter (200 Free, 100 Free); Abigail Owens (100 Breast). Boys: Roan Gorychka (400 Free); Cooper Hamby (200 Med Relay, 100 Fly, 400 Free); Wyatt Lintz (400 Free).
