On Wednesday, December 10th, the Tigers had their first home meet at Broomfield Community Center against Niwot and Skyline. The Tigers kicked off the meet with the group of Sophie Gremillion, Cece Brougham, Kailyn Tucker, and Emily Opie going a 2:08.18 in the 200 Medley Relay, easily qualifying for state. Another standout event was the 100 breaststroke, where the top three swimmers all came from HF. Holy Family finished the meet with 4 individual event wins. Megan Grenzenbach won the 50 free, Brougham won the 100 breast, Tucker won the 100 fly, and Gremillion won the 100 back.
Niwot barely won the meet with 129 points. The Tigers beat Skyline (26 points) with 122 points, barely falling to Niwot. The question comes down to whether 3 of the Tigers’ relays wouldn’t have gotten disqualified, would the Tigers have won the meet?
The Tigers finished last week with races at the Angel Invitational at Manuel High School which is notoriously described as a slow pool and looked that way for the Tigers.
This week the Tigers first start with a dual against Silver Creek Thursday afternoon at Saint Vrain Aquatics center. The dual will be the Tigers hardest meet at this point in the season. Silver creek is undefeated in league meets going 2-0 and being 2-1 overall. The Tigers will have their work cut out for them considering Silver Creek is an extremely fast 4A team and has a point advantage due to the diver.
Before going on break seven swimmers will test the waters at the larger competition level. Saturday this group will compete at the Coaches Invitational and race against standout teams like, Cherry Creek, Regis, Fairview, and Broomfield. The meet will go all day Saturday with prelims starting at 8:30am and the top 30 timed finals starting at 3:30pm.
