Central Georgia News

Cherokee County GA issued the following announcement on July 23. 

Two of the 57 swimmers who qualified to participate in the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association Class A State Meet returned home as state champions.

Cherokee County residents qualified for 23 final events at the GRPA Class A State Meet held in Cumming July 17-18. 

Cal Wiley secured a first-place win and a personal record of 16.99 in the Boys 8U 25-yard Fly event, and Genevieve McKinley earned first place and a personal record of 17.35 in the Girls 10U 25-yard Breaststroke event.  

“We are so proud of our Cherokee swimmers,” said Cherokee Aquatics Division Director Kim Whatley. “All of our swimmers went out and did their best, and we could not be prouder of how they represented Cherokee County on the state level.”

The final results of all events Cherokee County swimmers participated in are:

Girls 8U 50 yd Free-3rd place Sophie Stephens

Boys 8U 50 yd Free-3rd place Cal Wiley

Boys 10U 50 yd Free-8th place Grant Stephens

Girls 10U 100 yd. Medley Relay-6th place Juliet Raymond, Sophia Windham, Stella Boilen, Genevieve McKinley

Boys 8U 25 yd Free-3rd place Cal Wiley

Girls 8U 25 yd. Breast-5th place Olivia Butcko & 7th place Sophie Stephens

Girls 10U 25 yd. Breast-1st place Genevieve McKinley

Girls 8U 100 IM-6th place Olivia Butcko

Girls 8U 25 yd. Back-5thplace Olivia Butcko

Boys 8U 25 yd. Back-8th place Nicholas Raymond

Boys 8U 25 yd. Fly-1st Place Cal Wiley

Boys 10U 25 yd. Fly-3rd place Grant Stephens

Girls 8U 100 yd Free Relay-6th place Ella Wood, Elizabeth Adams, Sophie Stephens, Olivia Butcko

Boys 8U 100 yd. Free Relay-8th place Nathaniel Allen, Nicholas Raymond, Asher Spratt, Cal Wiley

Girls 15-18 100 yd Free-3rd place Kaitlin Blankinship

Mixed 15-18 200 yd Medley Relay-3rd Eric Watkins, Lillian Windham, Carson Portis, Kaitlin Blankinship

Girls 14U 50 yd. Breast-3rd place Cassedy Griffin

Girls 15-18 50 yd. Breast-3rd place Lillian Windham

Girls 14U 100 yd. IM-7th place Cassedy Griffin

Girls 15-18 100 yd. IM-2nd place Lillian Windham

Boys 12U 50 yd. Back-6th place Jake Guarlnick

Girls 15-18 50 yd. Fly-3rd place Lillian Windham

Mixed 15-18 200 yd. Free Relay-4th place Kaitlin Blankinship, Eric Watkins, Lillian Windham, Carson Portis

Original source can be found here.