Making a splash in her first meet back
little bit more confidence for those meets,” Forsman said. “Whenever I get to race faster girls, I think it’s always an opportunity to kind of see where I am and see how I can push myself to race them.”
Rising all the way to the top
Broomfield put together a collective effort to help it earn the team title in the Class 4A competition. The Eagles, who didn’t win any individual events, scored 251.50 points to push past second-place Centaurus, which finished at 134 points.
Sophomore Myra Wherry took the lead for the Eagles in the individual races, when she finished fourth in the 500 free after clocking in at 5:06.04, shaving nearly two seconds off of her preliminary time.
She believed the meet served as a good measuring stick for the rest of her season.
“I’m hyped. I like seeing all my friends from other club teams and seeing all my friends do great,” Wherry said. “It’s so fast. Each year just gets faster with all the freshmen coming
in.”
Injuries can be unforgiving in any sport, but any setback in a sport like swimming will leave athletes feeling like a fish out of water.
That, at least, was the story of Legacy junior Addie Donahue’s sophomore year, as she spent the entire season watching from the pool deck with shoulder and rib injuries. On Saturday, she brushed off her unplanned hiatus when she qualified for the state meet in the 100-yard freestyle, shaving a second off her previous-best time this season.
Now, she gets to go right back to where her freshman season ended.
“It just gave me a sense of relief. I hope it just helps me be more motivated towards swimming and invest more of my time and effort into it now. I’ve kind of proven to myself that I can do it,” Donahue said. “The (injury) break was fun at first, because I had a lot more freedom, and then I started to really miss swimming.”