2025 Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 2 Girls State Championships
- Nov. 21-22
- Ypsilanti, Michigan
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
It couldn’t have been a more thrilling or down-to-the-wire finish for the team title at the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 2 State Championships.
Perennial power Farmington Hills Mercy entered the 400 free relay trailing in the meet by four points to Grosse Pointe South, which was seeking its first- ever title.
Mercy ended up breaking the hearts of South and adding another championship to its trophy case, winning the race (40 points went to the winner, 34 to second place) and the meet by two points over South.
Mercy’s team of Avery Tack (51.61), Campbell Shore (51.74), Lyla Collins (52.24) and Ella Hafner (50.46) won in a time of 3:26.05, which was 1.63 seconds ahead of Grosse Pointe South.
It was Mercy’s 14th overall title and third in a row in Division 2.
“Quite honestly, I hoped we’d tie,” Mercy head coach Mike Venos, who is in his 42nd year coaching girls and boys swimming, said to the MHSAA’s website. “I don’t think anybody deserved to lose this meet today. I was really hoping for a tie, and I thought that would be really cool because those South girls swam lights out all year. And you don’t want to get to a meet like this and go home disappointed. It was one of those team efforts again. I don’t know if we could have done it without the whole team. I just felt the girls pulled each other up and kept scratching and clawing.”
For South, it was its fourth runner-up finish in the last seven years and second in a row.
“It was as close as it could possibly get, the whole way,” Grosse Pointe South coach John Fodell said to the MHSAA site. “I couldn’t be more proud of them. We were down on (the) psych sheet at one time by 20 points and we just kept battling back, battling back the whole meet. We pulled off some upsets. It goes back and forth. Just battle the whole time, and that’s all you can ask of the girls. It was the whole team. Everyone was trying to move up one spot.”
Mercy and South went back-and-forth the entire meet, with South winning the other two relays.
The team of Mischa Eng (26.94), Nicole McEnroe (30.00), Corinne Stencel (24.74) and Quinn Ryan (23.54) won the 200 medley relay in 1:45.22.
South also won the 200 free relay behind the squad of Whitney Handwork (23.34), Stencel (24.15), McEnroe (23.89) and Caroline Bryan (23.23) in 1:34.61.
The individual standout was Ann Arbor Skyline junior Adrienne Schadler, who won the 200 free in 1:46.85 and the 500 free in 4:48.50, both in personal best times. She repeated as champion in both events.
Other individual event winners were:
- Tack, a junior, won the 200 IM in a time of 2:04.64. Tack was 2nd in the event last year.
- Handwork, a senior, defended her title in the 50 free, winning in a time of 23.24, just two-one- hundredths of a second ahead of South Lyon senior Emma Klotz.
- Morgan Rea of Rochester Adams won the 1-meter diving competition with 431.75 points.
- Bryan, a sophomore, won the 100 fly in a time of 54.59.
- Klotz avenged the loss to Handwork in the 50 free by beating her out in the 100 free, winning in a personal best time of 50.70. Handwork was 2nd with a personal best 50.92.
- Ryan, a sophomore, swam a personal best time of 56.08 to take the 100 back.
- Payton Garn of Birmingham Seaholm won the 100 breast in a time of 1:02.76.
Team Standings — Top 5
- Farmington Hills Mercy, 337
- Grosse Pointe South, 335
- Birmingham Seaholm, 260.5
- Birmingham Groves, 155.5
- Ann Arbor Skyline, 155
What an epic meet. Does Michigan run Prelims on Saturday and Finals on Sunday? Or do they do a 1 day T/F on Sunday with diving on Saturday? Just curious, I know every state is different.