Throughout the season, the swim team worked their hardest to swim forward starting with sectionals, districts, and finally states. The girls team ended their season 4-0 and the boys team ended their season 4-1 for dual meets.
Swim has many different events that someone on the swim team can choose from. These include the 50, 100, 200, 500 freestyle, relays, and numerous other events.
The swim team put a lot of hard work into getting better and faster during the whole season. Both the girls and boys teams had morning practices twice a week and after-school practices every day.
“The guys would have morning practice from 5:30-6:30 on Mondays and Thursdays, the girls would have it Tuesdays and Fridays,” Kali Angerstien, a senior on the swim team, said. With the addition of hour-long morning practices and two hour-long afternoon practices, the swim team did weight training on Wednesdays every week and occasionally Saturdays for an hour.
Throughout the season, the team came together to bond over many activities, holidays, etc.
“We typically have team dinners two days before almost every meet. We also do a White Elephant gift exchange every year during Christmas break,” Angerstien said, “There are also times we go out for breakfast after a morning practice.”
For the postseason, 21 individuals on the swim team went to districts and 10 people went to states. To celebrate the postseason starting, the swim team dyed their hair.
“Towards the end of the season, the girls dye each other’s tips of their hair a fun color and the guys typically bleach their hair as a way to kick off postseason,” Angerstien stated.
Some individuals on the swim team made it to states and participated on Feb. 24 and Feb. 25. There are people from both the girls and boys teams that made it to states. Over the course of states, swimmers competed in many events from relays to individual races.
“Our girl’s team got 7th in the Medley Relay and 14th in the 400 Free Relay, which they also broke the school record in,” Camden Doerrer, a junior on the swim team, said. “For individual events, Olivia Elgin got 3rd in the 100 free and 13th in the 100 breast and Laina Swartzwelder scored 25th in the 500 free. On the guy’s side, Caleb Carr scored 10th in the 100-yard breaststroke and Seth Mcmillen scored 30th in the 100-yard breaststroke.”

The Green High School Swim team worked hard throughout their season and many were able to progress all the way to states!