Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to reflect the accuracy of state qualifiers for the Summit swim and dive team. Over the offseason, the Tigers made the move from Class 3A to Class 4A.

The Summit High School girls swim and dive team wasted no time displaying its expectations for the season. In the team’s first meet of the winter, Summit traveled to Glenwood Springs on Friday, Dec. 6, where the team took third overall among six teams.

Leading off the meet was the 200-yard medley, where Summit put three different relay teams within the top 10. A team made up of junior Lydia Peterson, senior Izzy Rowe, junior Teagan Barth and senior Olivia Lyman led the results for the Tigers, taking fifth overall in a time of 2 minutes, 12.90 seconds. Summit’s two other 200-yard medley relay teams placed ninth (2:29.08) and 10th (2:34.63).

Logan Ellison secured another top-10 finish for Summit in the first individual event of the meet — the  200-yard freestyle. Swimming hard over the eight-lap race, Ellison took fifth overall in a time of 2:32.32.

With two fifth-place finishes through two events, Summit continued to rack up points in the 200-yard individual medley. Securing the team’s third fifth-place finish of the meet, Josie Speerstra recorded a time of 2:57.11.

As always, Summit showed its depth in the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle races. In the two events, Summit put three athletes within the top 10 and eight athletes within the top 15.

Coming off a significant leg injury she suffered during the fall rugby season, Lyman returned to the pool and quickly secured a a quick time in the 50-yard freestyle race.

Prior to the meet, Lyman was slightly worried about how her leg injury would affect her pushing off the wall, but the senior looked smooth and fluid in her race, clocking a time of 26.96 seconds for first place overall. Lyman was followed by Barth in 10th place (29.54), Adah Wiese in 11th (30.49) and Sophie Mazur in 14th (30.99).

In the 100-yard freestyle, Rowe was the top finisher for the Tigers, taking third overall in a time of 1:04.74. Ellison returned to the pool to take 11th in the 100-yard freestyle (1:10.50), Wren Tofig took 13th (1:10.97) and Speerstra finished in 14th (1:11.76)

Lila Ellison was Summit’s lone competitor in the 500-yard freestyle race. Leaning on her aerobic base from the fall cross-country season, Ellison finished the race in 8:06.53 to place fourth overall in the 20-lap race.

Summit continued to perform highly in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Rowe, Peterson, Barth and Lyman once again lended their talents to the relay team, recording a time of 1:56.79.

Rowe and Peterson then competed in the 100-yard backstroke, where the two swimmers placed within the top 10. With a time of 1:09.57, Rowe took first overall in the event while Peterson placed eighth in 1:20.93. 

Wiese took fourth (1:26.66) in the 100-yard breaststroke and Lydia Kurth finished in ninth (1:42.90).

In the 1-meter dive, Summit had two athletes score points for the team. Hailey Eisemann earned a diving score of 126 to place third overall and earn 10 points towards the team’s final score while Norah Kuffner took fourth (119.40).

Kuffner was followed by Alena Riberdy in fifth (117.38), Adison Micciulli in sixth (107.84) and Paige Hoffman in seventh (93.37).

With a total of 117 points, the Summit swim and dive team took third overall. Glenwood Springs placed first with 267 points, and Gunnison High School took second with 239. 

Summit will compete in its final meet before the holiday break on Saturday, Dec. 14, in Gunnison. The meet is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m.