The state tournament season for high school winter sports in Kansas is here.
First up is the Men’s Swimming and Diving State Championships held Thursday through Saturday at the Shawnee Mission School District Aquatic Center in Lenexa.
Here’s what you need to know.
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All classes will compete in Lenexa
All grades, 6-1A, will compete at the Shawnee Mission School District Aquatic Center at 17251 W. 87th Parkway, Lenexa, 66219.
On February 16th, the gates will open at 8:30am with the first event starting at 9:30am and on February 17th and 18th, the gates will open at 8am with the first event starting at 9am
If you can’t make it in person, you can watch the National Federation of High School Sports broadcast here.
Tickets
General admission tickets will cost $10 with pre-K children admitted free and can be purchased digitally through gofan.
Tickets can also be purchased in person at the aquatic center with cash or credit card.
Parking
Topeka area athletes and teams competing at state
Topeka High (6A), Washburn Rural (6A), Hayden (5-1A) Seaman (5-1A), Shawnee Heights (5-1A), and Topeka West (5-1A) will represent Topeka area schools.
The events are listed in order and in brackets next to the events are the times needed to qualify and be considered.
In parentheses next to the Topeka area swimmers and relays are their times in the event and where that places them in terms of other qualifying times and consideration.
There are consideration times, which is a time for an event in which swimmers must be faster to be considered for entry, and qualifying times, the speed with which swimmers must swim in an event before the competition. state to be able to swim that event in the state meet.
As of Monday, here are the Topeka athletes headed to the state.
6A
- 200 medley relay (1:49.83 qualification, 1:55.32 consideration)
- Rural Washburn (1:45.18, 13), qualified for the state
- 200 freestyle (1:54.12 qualification, 1:59.82 consideration)
- Brogan Meier, Washburn Rural (1:52.4, 19th), qualified for the state
- Will Powell, Rural Washburn (1:52.72), qualified for the state
- 50m freestyle (23.17 qualifying, 24.33 consideration)
- Will Powell, Washburn Rural (22.9, 24), qualified for the state
- 6 dives (190 qualification and 10.7 dive difficulty)
- Jaxon Cowdin, Topeka High (254.45, 8th), qualified for the state
- 11 dives (280 qualifications, 12.8 dive difficulties)
- Jaxon Cowdin, Topeka High School (470.60, 3rd), qualified for the state
- 100 butterfly (56.99 qualification, 59.84 consideration)
- Will Powell, Washburn Rural (54.53, 11th), qualified for the state
- Jack Miranda, rural Washburn (56.39, 25), qualified for the state
- 100 freestyle (51.22 qualification, 53.78 consideration)
- Brogan Meier, rural Washburn (48.79, 6th), qualified for the state
- Jack Miranda, rural Washburn (50.53, 24), qualified for the state
- 500 freestyle (5:14.36 qualifying, 5:30.07 consideration)
- Jack Miranda, Washburn Rural (4:51.93, 2nd), qualified for the state
- Brogan Meier, Washburn Rural (5:11.46, 20th), qualified for the state
- Will Powell, Washburn Rural (5:12.47, 23), qualified for the state
- 200m freestyle relay (1:36.7 qualification, 1:41.54 consideration)
- Rural Washburn (1:33.47, 10°), qualified for the state
- Upper Topeka (1:39.59, 25°)
- 100 backstroke (58.86 qualifying, 1:01.8 consideration)
- Brogan Meier, Washburn Rural (55.76, 10th), qualified for the state
- Luke Lemke, Washburn Rural (58.87, 25th)
- 100 breaststroke (1:05.17 qualification, 1:08.43 consideration
- Cordell Dimick, Washburn Rural (1:04.86, 21st), qualified for the state
- 400m freestyle relay (3:35.15 qualifying, 3:46.96 consideration)
- Rural Washburn (3:26.46, 11th), qualified for the state
- Topeka High (3:42.15, 21st)
5-1A
- 200 medley relay (1:53.56 qualification, 1:59.24 consideration)
- Shawnee Heights (1:41.44, 5th), qualified for the state
- Hayden (1:49.31, 13th), qualified for the state
- Sailor (1:51.38, 16th), qualified for the state
- 200 freestyle (1:57.84 qualification, 2:03.73 consideration)
- Daniel Ramirez, sailor (1:51.49, 11th), qualified for the state
- Riccardo Corazza, Shawnee Heights (1:55.39, 22nd), qualified for the state
- 200 IM (2:14.64 qualification, 2:21.37 consideration)
- Luke Perkins, Shawnee Heights (2:01.12, 6th), qualified for the state
- Colin O’Rourke, Sailor (2:06.81, 15th), qualified for the state
- Riccardo Corazza, Shawnee Heights (2:10.45, 25°), qualified for the state
- 50m freestyle (23.4 qualifying, 24.57 consideration)
- Riccardo Corazza, Shawnee Heights (22.33, 9th), qualified for the state
- Tanner Zerger, Shawnee Heights (17, 23.08), qualified for the state
- Dylan Gregg, Hayden (23.17, 21), qualified for the state
- 6 dives (190 qualification and 10.7 dive difficulty)
- Robert Haag, Topeka West (143.05, 20th)
- 100 butterfly (59.14 qualifying, 1:02.1 consideration)
- Luke Perkins, Shawnee Heights (52.63, 3rd), qualified for the state
- Colin O’Rourke, sailor (54.44, 7th), qualified for the state
- Riccardo Corraza, Shawnee Heights (57.62, 19th), qualified for the state
- 100m freestyle (52.53 qualifying, 55.16 consideration)
- Riccardo Corraza, Shawnee Heights (49.58, 7th), qualified for the state
- 500m freestyle (5:28.8 qualifying, 5:45.24 consideration)
- Daniel Ramirez, sailor (5:23.08, 17th), qualified for the state
- Evan Hoobler, Shawnee Heights (5:25.53, 21st), qualified for the state
- 200m freestyle relay (1:38.63 qualification, 1:43.56 consideration)
- Shawnee Heights (1:33.47, 5th), qualified for the state
- Hayden (1:36.39, 15th), qualified for the state
- Sailor (1:37.77, 18th), qualified for the state
- 100 backstroke (1:00.61 qualification, 1:03.64 consideration)
- Luke Perkins, Shawnee Heights (56.01, 6th), qualified for the state
- Daniel Ramirez, sailor (58.23, 15th), qualified for the state
- Truman Brede, Shawnee Heights (58.70, 17th), qualified for the state
- 400m freestyle relay (3:46 qualifying, 3:57.3 consideration)
- Sailor (3:32.62, 9th), qualified for the state
- Shawnee Heights (3:33.04, 10th), qualified for the state
- Hayden (3:42.54, 17th), qualified for the state
