2/17/2009
Drew Schmelzer-IHSAASports.org
For the 23rd consecutive year the Carmel High School girls swim team is the Indiana State Champion. They are officially the most storied program in any sport in the country as the 23 in a row is a national record. The Greyhounds posted a state record 427 points, winning 8 out of 11 swimming events while breaking three state time records and two national records.
“I can’t believe I’m standing here in front of you talking about this right now,” Carmel Coach Chris Plumb said. “It’s great what these girls are able to do as a team.”
The honors didn’t stop for Greyhounds even after they got out of the pool. Plumb was named State Coach of the Year and senior Jessica Hammes was given the Mental attitude Award.
The common theme of the day was Carmel’s ability to work and train harder than anybody as a team. Hammes, a Stanford commit, echoes the theme.
“People say that swimming is an individual sport,” she said. “When you have teammates like this it is such a team sport.”
The day could not have started much better for Carmel. A team led by Hammes, Devon Mason, Lauren Stauder and Megan Detro, swam a national record 1:41.68 in the 200- yard medley relay, breaking a state record that they set the night before in the preliminaries.
“We want a team championship,” Detro said following the win. “It just works out that we are setting records.”
Carmel followed by winning the next three events heading into the break. Logan Mason won the 200-yard freestyle, Trish Regan took the 200-yard IM, and Detro won the most competitive race of the day in the 50-yard freestyle by .01 seconds over North Central’s Lauren Massey.
“Since freshman year we have been dreaming about this,” Detro said after her thrilling finish. “We have done it before though, so we are having a good time and being very chill about the experience.”
The speed of Carmel’s relay teams was the story of the day. After Lauren Jordan won the grueling 500-yard freestyle for the Greyhounds, the 200-yard free-relay team of Hammes, Detro, Logan Mason and Regan broke another national record swimming a 1:32.75, two seconds better than its time in the preliminaries.
“After winning state last year, this year we wanted to be so much faster,” Detro said. “To do what we are doing and get these state records says so much about this team.”
Hammes followed by wining her first individual race and third overall in the 100- yard backstroke.
The Greyhounds finished off their record setting day with perhaps its most impressive performance of all. They beat a Hamilton Southeastern 400-yard free-relay team that swam nearly four seconds faster in the preliminaries and set a state record the night before. That was Carmel’s third state record.
“Eight is a great number,” Hammes said following the meet.
Carmel almost won nine races, but Homestead’s Tori Bagan outreached Stauder by .01 seconds in the 100-yard breaststroke. Bagan’s older sister McKenzie took first in the 100-yard butterfly.
Nothing could steal the show from Carmel on this day. Not even a diving title by Noblesville’s Katie Bittner, or Westfield’s Kait Flederbach’s state win over the defending champion in the 100-yard freestyle.
“This has exceeded all of our expectations,” Hammes said. “This is a great team.”
It may be the best of Carmel’s 23 straight championship teams. In fact, it probably is considering all the records that it has broken. With the return of state finalists Trish Regan, Lauren Stauder, Lauren Jordan, Megan Jex, Rhiannon Sheets, and Carly Marshall who knows how many more titles they can win or how many more records they can break.
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