Spain Park swimmer captures 2 state titles
Spain Park High School’s Rachel Cunningham captured two state championship medals at the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s 6A-7A Swimming and Diving Championship at the end of last year.
Cunningham won first place in both the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:02.35 and the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:04.44. Both performances broke her own Spain Park team records and narrowly missed breaking the state records.
Cunningham is an Olympic Trial qualifier in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke and will be competing in the 2016 Olympic trials in June.
The Spain Park girls team finished 12th as a team in the state meet, while the Spain Park boys placed 13th.
The Hoover girls team placed ninth in the state, while the Hoover boys finished 37th.
Swimmer Sydney Biswal and diver Victoria Perry were the top scorers on the Hoover girls team, while the Hoover boys only made the finals cut in one event. The relay team of John Michael Alfano, Jason Lee, Justin Sims and Guy Griffies placed 16th in the 200-yard medley relay.
Here are the top results from the Spain Park and Hoover teams:
Spain Park
► First place, girls 200-yard individual medley: Rachel Cunningham
► First place, girls 100-yard breaststroke: Rachel Cunningham
► Second place, boys 1-meter diving: Zachary El-Fallah
► Fifth place, boys 1-meter diving: Jon Pickett
► Fifth place, boys 50-yard freestyle: Peyton Clutts
► Seventh place, girls 200-yard medley relay: Tyler Dean, Rachel Cunningham, Bailey Deas, Caitlin Bullard
► Ninth place, boys 500-yard freestyle: Ward Lockhart
► Ninth place, boys 100-yard backstroke: Peyton Clutts
► 13th place, girls 200-yard individual medley: Bailey Deas
► 15th place, girls 400-yard freestyle relay: Bailey Deas, Caroline Rice, Tyler Dean, Rachel Cunningham
Hoover
► Fifth place, girls 200-yard freestyle relay: Erica Han, Amanda Sall, Katrina Chapman, Abigail Williamson
► Fifth place, girls 400-yard freestyle relay: Erica Han, Kylie Vanlandingham, Amanda Sall, Abigail Williamson
► 10th place, girls 1-meter diving: Victoria Perry
► 11th place, girls 100-yard breaststroke: Sydney Biswal
► 11th place, girls 200-yard medley relay: Katrina Chapman, Sydney Biswal, Taylor Sims, Kylie Vanlandingham
► 13th place, girls 500-yard freestyle: Ariana Zamani
► 13th place, girls 100-yard freestyle: Abigail Williamson
► 14th place, girls 100-yard freestyle: Kylie Vanlandingham
► 14th place, girls 50-yard freestyle: Abigail Williamson
► 14th place, girls 100-yard breaststroke: Alexa Smith
► 14th place, girls 200-yard individual medley: Sydney Biswal
► 15th place, girls 200-yard individual medley: Taylor Sims
► 15th place, girls 100-yard butterfly: Amanda Sall
► 15th place, girls 500-yard freestyle: Kylie Vanlandingham