Swimming

Viking Girls Swim Team takes on Bluffton

By Mycal Rodenbeck on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

The Viking Girls swim team opened up their 2011-2012 season last night with a win over the visiting Bluffton Tigers.  The final score read 95-68 (should have read 105).  The girls took first place in 8 of 11 events. 

Individual first place finishers were:

Sara Karst in the 200 and 500 Freestyle

Cassy Lange in the 200 IM and 100 Backstroke

Cassie Hacker in the 100 Breaststroke

Karst, Hacker, Lange, and Katie Schenkel finished first in the 200 Medley Relay

Schenkel, Addison Clark, Autumn Schulte, and Emily Koons finished first in the 200 Free relay

Karst, Hacker, Lange, and Autumn Schulte finished first in the 400 Free relay... Read More...

Blue Racers Victorious

By Chris Oswalt on Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Huntington Blue Racers were victorious in their meet against Blackford last Wednesday.  The girls won by a score of 100-70.  There were many Crestview students that participated and helped lead them to victory.

First place finishers for Crestview were: Lauren Sands in the 50 and the 100 Free; Rachel Anderson in teh 50 Fly; Sands and Alayna Kiefer in the 200 Medley Relay, Anderson and Sands in the 300 Free Relay... Read More...

2010 Glen S Hummer Huntington Mile

By HFP Reporter on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

YMCA Press Release - The 2010 Glen S Hummer Huntington Mile will take place on Saturday, June 19th at Lake Clare in Huntington, Indiana.  The 1 mile cable swim will run throughout the morning with a 5K swim being held in the afternoon.  Over 400 swimmers participate from the across the midwest... Read More...

Blue Racers finish a Great Season

By Brad Ludlow on Friday, March 12th, 2010

The Blue Racers finished their swimming season last night at Salamonie taking on Summit Middle School.  Both teams were defeated.  The girls lost by a score of 79-107.  The boys score was 80-105.

Top finishers for the girls were: Samantha McCann- 200 free and 100 breast; Cassy Lange- 50 free and 100 back; Lauren Sands- 100 fly; 200 Medley relay of Cassy Lange, Katie Schenkel, Lauren Sands, and Addison Clark; Addison Clark- 100 IM and 100 back; Alayna Kiefer- 100 fly; Katie Schenkel- 400 free and 100 breast; 200 free relay team of Lauren Sands, Alayna Kiefer, Fiona Sackett, and Caitlyn Sands; 300 free relay team of Caitlyn Sands, Cassy Lange, Katie Schenkel, and Addison Clark; Katie Littleford- diving... Read More...

Blue Racers Results

By Brad Ludlow on Friday, March 5th, 2010

The Huntington Blue Racers lost Wednesday night to Maple Creek Middle School at Carroll High School.  The lone first place finisher was Cassy Lange in the 50 fly; she also placed second in the 100 IM.  Other second place finishers were: Walter Hacker in the 100 IM and 50 Fly, Cameron Ness- 50 free and 100 Breast, Katie Schenkel- 400 free and 100 Breast, Brian Mitchell- 100 Backstroke, Medley Relay teams of Addison Clark, Katie Schenkel, Cassy Lange, Caitlyn Sands, Aaron Gilmore, Cameron Ness, Walter Hacker, and Kellen Hughes; 300 Free relay teams of Addison Clark, Cassy Lange, Katie Schenkel, Caitlyn Sands, Drew Whitcomb, Brian Mitchell, Walter Hacker, and Cameron Ness... Read More...

Vikes compete in State Finals

By HFP Reporter on Friday, February 26th, 2010

On Saturday at the State Swimming Finals, Dan Scher competed in the 100 Yard Freestyle placing 15th with a time of 48.15. Skyler Ruschhaupt competed in two events placing 10th in the 100 Yard Butterfly with a time of 51.9; he also swam the 100 Yard Breaststroke in a time of 59... Read More...

Vikings have good day at Sectionals

By Michelle Hoover on Saturday, February 20th, 2010

The Huntington North Vikings' swimmers that qualified on Thursday at the Sectional Prelims traveled to Warsaw High School on Saturday to compete in the Sectional finals. The Vikings ended up winning six events and broke three school records, one of which wasn't broken yet this year, the 200 yard freestyle relay... Read More...

Blue Racers Start Season with Wins!

By Brad Ludlow on Friday, February 19th, 2010

The Blue Racers swim team has opened the season with the boys and girls winning over Bluffton, and a split decision versus Indian Springs. On February 8th, the Racers started with a bang, defeating Bluffton in both the girls and boys events.   They followed up this win with the boys winning at Indian Springs 88-79... Read More...

Boys Sectional Prelims

By HFP Reporter on Thursday, February 18th, 2010

The Huntington North Vikings swim team competed in the Sectional prelims on Thursday evening in Warsaw to qualify for the finals on Saturday.  Coach Stephanie Skiver and Coach Heather Wilburn said that all the swimmers had good times with two school records broken by Skyler Ruschhaupt in the 100 Yard Butterfly (52... Read More...

Lady Vikes place fifth in Warsaw

By HFP Reporter on Saturday, February 6th, 2010

The Huntington North Girls' Swim team finished up the Sectional on Saturday in Warsaw. The host team took the Sectional crown with 284 points. The Lady Vikes tied with Columbia City for fifth place with 151 points behind Culver (223), Logansport (192), and Plymouth (166).

The Lady Vikes placed third in the 200 Yard Medley Relay with Mariah Patrick leading off with the backstroke, Cassie Hacker with the Breaststroke, Andrea Okuly with the Fly and Sara Karst anchoring with the freestyle in a time of 2:00... Read More...

HNHS Girls Swim Sectionals at Warsaw

By Tom Stong on Friday, February 5th, 2010

The HNHS girls swim team made a great splash at the sectionals at the Warsaw high school natatorium on Thursday evening. The team, lead by head coach Reed Christiansen with assistant coaches Heather Wilburn and Stephanie Skiver, will compete against 12 other skilled squads in the sectional finals Saturday in Warsaw... Read More...

Senior Night at the Pool.

By Tom Stong on Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Wednesday night was Senior Night for the boys and girls swimming teams.  It was a chance for parents to beam, seeing their swimmers highlighted on center stage. In front of a standing room only crowd, the boys (6-5-1) defeated Marion 97 to 77 behind the first place efforts of the 200 Medley Relay team of Dan Scher, Skyler Ruschhaupt, Chris Royer, and Shaun Marion... Read More...

Huntington Otters in Winter Classic

By Rick Henly on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

The Huntington-Wells Otters participated in the Fort Wayne Aquatics Winter Classic held at the Helen P. Brown Natatorium January 22-24, 2010 in Fort Wayne, IN.  What follows are results of the team’s top placing swimmers and relays... Read More...

NCC Swimming Meet

By Tom Stong on Monday, January 25th, 2010

What a great showing the Vikings swim team had at the IUPUI Natatorium.

This is a wonderful place to have this event as many Olympic trials have been held here, not to mention the World Diving Championships a time or two.

Eight teams showed up to perform their best and only one could come away with the conference title... Read More...

HNHS Swim Team

By Tom Stong on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

The Huntington North swim team had another great showing at Salamonie pool on Tuesday evening.

Many personal bests were achieved by Huntington North swimmers as both the boys and the girls swam.

The diving team also performed well as Huntington went up against a South Adams team that is coached by Janelle Gresla... Read More...