Sauickie, Weyant Lead Riverview Girls To FHSAA 4A Title; Sarasota Boys Threepeat

2022 FHSAA CHAMPIONSHIPS – CLASS 4A

• Saturday, November 5, 2022
• Sailfish Splash Waterpark and Aquatics Center, Stuart, Fla.
• SCY (25 yards)
• Defending champions:
  • Girls: Riverview Sarasota
  • Boys: Sarasota
• FHSAA Swim & Dive Central
• Full Results (PDF)

The Riverview Sarasota High School girls and Sarasota High School boys successfully defended their state titles on Saturday at the FHSAA Class 4A Championships in Stuart, Florida.

GIRLS RECAP

The Riverview girls earned a dominant victory with 387 points, outpacing runner-up Oviedo High School by 155.

Riverview won a total of seven events, with juniors Addison Sauickie, Gracie Weyant and Bailey O’Regan factoring into all of them.

The meet kicked off with a new state record, as freshman Taylor Schwenk (25.85), Weyant (28.27), Sauickie (24.16) and O’Regan (23.76) combined to win the 200 medley relay for Riverview in 1:42.04, breaking the 2017 record of 1:42.34 set by Buccholz.

Windermere High School also went under the old record, clocking 1:42.23, including a 22.73 anchor from Brooke Larweth.

Windermere added a victory in the 200 free relay, as Addison Reese led off in 23.41 and Larweth anchored in 23.39 as they won by nearly two seconds in 1:33.78.

Weyant, a Florida commit, went on to defend her state titles in the 200 IM (1:58.66) and 100 breast (1:01.68), the former marking a sizeable best time after clocking 2:00.05 at the Region 3 Championships.

Sauickie, committed to USC, defended her title in the 200 free, dropping more than a second from her best time in 1:45.38, and she also hit a new PB to win the 100 free in 49.03 (she would re-lower it on the 400 free relay). Sauickie’s previous bests, both set at the Winter Junior Championships – East last December, stood at 49.78 in the 100 free and 1:46.50 in the 200 free.

O’Regan, a Kentucky commit, added a win of her own in the 500 free, cracking 4:50 for the first time in 4:49.28. Last year’s winner, Oviedo’s Gabby Goodwin, finished back in fourth (4:58.31).

Riverview finished the meet off with a big win in the 400 free relay, as Sauickie led off in a PB of 48.90, and was followed by Brianna Deierlein (51.85), O’Regan (51.38) and Weyant (50.09) for a final time of 3:22.22.

Another top performer was George Steinbrenner senior Bella Answeeney, who won the 100 fly in a new best of 53.75 and also took second to Venice sophomore Maeve Eckerman (54.65) in the 100 back (55.84).

FSU commit Sarah Cathcart set a new Oviedo school record en route to winning the 50 free in 23.09, well under her previous best of 23.46.

Windermere’s Antonina Harned was victorious in the 1-meter diving competition (495.55) after finishing third last year.

TOP 5 TEAM SCORES

1. Riverview Sarasota, 387
2. Oviedo High School, 232
3. Windermere High School, 231
4. West Orange High School, 154
5. Cypress Bay High School, 114

BOYS RECAP

The Sarasota boys were led by Liam Heary on the way to their third consecutive state title (they were 3A in 2020), as the senior picked up a pair of individual wins in the 100 fly and 100 breast and also factored into the team’s winning 200 medley relay.

In the first race of the meet, Heary split 25.48 as Sarasota won the 200 medley relay in 1:32.91, with Lake Brantley (1:33.08) close behind.

Heary followed up with a lifetime best of 48.61 to win the 100 fly, while Gulf Coast’s Jack Stokvis, who went 47.93 in the prelims, was disqualified.

Heary then earned a third victory on the day in the 100 breast, clocking 55.00 to near his best time of 54.43. An Auburn commit, Heary finished fifth in the 100 breast last year in 57.39, having established a PB of 55.86 in the 2021 prelims.

Another individual standout on the day was Boone senior Jacob Hamlin, who broke a pair of 42-year-old school records in the 200 free and 500 free en route to victory.

Hamlin, who joined Boone for his senior season after previously attending Cornerstone Charter, won the 200 free in 1:36.29 and the 500 free in 4:22.04, breaking two school records that had been on the books since 1980, held by Mike Beam.

A University of Tampa commit, Hamlin obliterated his previous best times, which stood at 1:39.49 and 4:27.30, respectively, set when he raced at the 1A state champs last year.

Windermere sophomore Ryan Erisman impressed with his runner-up finish to Hamlin in the 500 free, dropping seven seconds from his previous best in 4:23.39.

Joining Heary and Hamlin in winning two individual events was Venice senior and Florida commit Amadeusz Knop, who won the 200 IM (1:48.81) and 100 back (49.06), both personal bests, after finishing second in both races last year.

Miami Beach senior Marcoaurelio Lopez-Casula blasted his way to victory in the 50 free, setting a new best time of 20.65 to narrowly edged out Stokvis (20.67), who had been 20.64 in the prelims.

In the 100 free, Braddock sophomore George Gonzalez came out on top in a tightly-contested race, clocking 45.25. Lopez-Casula, who was the top qualifier out of the prelims in 45.37, found himself back in fifth in 46.02.

The Boca Raton squad got the job done in the 200 free relay, led off by junior Marcus Johnson in 20.91 as they touched first in 1:24.28 over Bartram Trail (1:24.57).

In the 400 free relay, Gonzalez led off in 45.71 to lead Braddock to the win in 3:05.26.

Fort Lauderdale sophomore James Boardman (494.70) was the 1-meter diving champion after placing fourth in his freshman year.

TOP 5 TEAM SCORES

1. Sarasota High School, 265
2. G Holmes Braddock Senior High, 212
3. Oviedo High School, 153
4. Bartram Trail High School, 147
5. Venice High School, 138