First Flight wins final regular season swim meet

Published 5:46 pm Monday, January 23, 2023

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First Flight swimmers dominated a January 11 high school swim meet capturing first places in 12 of the day’s 22 events. Manteo won six events and Perquimans took the remaining four.

Overall team results for the final regular season meet have First Flight boys in first place with 113 points followed by Manteo a distant second with 17 and Perquimans County in third with 12. Also performing well were First Flight girls in first with 82 points with Manteo again in second with 44 and Perquimans taking third with 37.

Individual girl winners included First Flight’s Maura Trivette taking first in the 200 and 400 meter freestyle events as Perquimans County’s Joliegh Connor was first in the 50 SC meter freestyle and 200 meter individual medley events.

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Multiple individual boy winners included two First Flight athletes: Dylan Hallac in the 100 meter freestyle and 100 meter breaststroke along with teammate Merrick Shumaker in the 50 meter freestyle and 100 SC meter backstroke events. For Manteo it was Benjamin Hanusik in the 200 and 400 meter freestyle.

Hallac was also on the winning 200 SC meter medley relay and 400 SC meter freestyle relay teams

Last Wednesday’s meet was also senior recognition night for First Flight swimmers Jack Brown, Daven Corey, Laney Dexter, Delaney Hanf, Will Robinson, Logan Thiessen, Maura Trivette and Chloe Wienert.

Area swimmers will be back in action January 20 for a conference meet in Elizabeth City.

Girls Team Scores
1 First Flight 82
2 Manteo 44
3 Perquimans 37

Boys Team Scores
1 First Flight 113
2 Manteo 17
3 Perquimans 12

Individual event results for Wednesday, January 11 include:

EVENT 1 GIRLS 200 SC METER MEDLEY RELAY:
1 Manteo High School (Meredith Gaskill, Gwyneth Benkusky, Isabella Alexander, Francesca Mueller) 2:29.33
2 First Flight Swim Team (Hayden Hall, Cameron Piland,Kira Walters, Chloe Wienert) 2:36.67
3 First Flight Swim Team (Allison Roper, Langley Curry, Delaney Hanf, Schuyler Wilson) 2:39.45

EVENT 2 BOYS 200 SC METER MEDLEY RELAY:
1 First Flight Swim Team (Jack Brown; Dylan Hallac; Josh Mouser, Will Robinson) 2:15.98

EVENT 3 GIRLS 200 SC METER FREESTYLE:
1 Maura Trivette (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 2:23.68
2 Meredith Gaskill (Manteo High School-NC) 2:23.91
3 Catherine Howell (Perquimans County High School) 2:30.25
4 Francesca Mueller (Manteo High School-NC) 2:44.68
5 Chloe Wienert (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 2:53.37

EVENT 4 BOYS 200 SC METER FREESTYLE:
1 Benjamin Hanusik (Manteo High School-NC) 2:18.93
2 Jack Brown (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 2:23.87
3 Dan Brown (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 2:57.97
4 Bert Waddington (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 3:07.51

EVENT 5 GIRLS 200 SC METER INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY:
1 Joliegh Connor (Perquimans County High School) 2:48.71
2 Allison Roper (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 3:10.17

EVENT 6 BOYS 200 SC METER INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY:
1 Sam Sabora (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 3:29.89

EVENT 7 GIRLS 50 SC METER FREESTYLE:
1 Joliegh Connor (Perquimans County High School) 31.82 630.73
2 Hayden Hall (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 33.20
3 Laney Dexter (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 33.51
4 Kira Walters (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 33.79
5 Lana Walters (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 33.86

EVENT 8 BOYS 50 SC METER FREESTYLE:
1 Merrick Shumaker (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 27.76
2 Logan Thiessen (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 29.19
3 Jack Spivey (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 29.70
4 Will Robinson (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 29.90
5 Noah Savage (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 30.13

EVENT 9 GIRLS 100 SC METER BUTTERFLY:
1 Isabella Alexander (Manteo High School-NC) 1:34.69
2 Allison Roper (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:36.13
3 Hailey Bass (Perquimans County High School) 1:44.48
4 Delaney Hanf (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:44.50
5 Kat Gregg (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:55.69

EVENT 10 BOYS 100 SC METER BUTTERFLY:
1 Josh Mouser (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:18.08
2 Luke Miller (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:27.07

EVENT 11 GIRLS 100 SC METER FREESTYLE:
1 Gwyneth Benkusky (Manteo High School-NC) 1:06.65
2 Francesca Mueller (Manteo High School-NC) 1:13.51
3 Laney Dexter (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:13.64
4 Kira Walters (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:15.07
5 Schuyler Wilson (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:18.06

EVENT 12 BOYS 100 SC METER FREESTYLE:
1 Dylan Hallac (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:04.71
2 Thomas McGraw (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:06.78
3 Noah Savage (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:07.67
4 Landon Creamer (Manteo High School-NC) 1:11.72
5 Dan Brown (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:20.33

EVENT 13 GIRLS 400 SC METER FREESTYLE:
1 Maura Trivette, (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 5:27.18
2 Lana Walters (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 5:44.73
3 Abby Edwards (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 7:09.98
4 Mariah Clark (Perquimans County High School) 7:24.28

EVENT 14 BOYS 400 SC METER FREESTYLE:
1 Benjamin Hanusik (Manteo High School-NC) 5:05.72
2 Josh Mouser (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 5:47.66
3 Jay Roberts (Perquimans County High School) 5:53.23

EVENT 15 GIRLS 200 SC METER FREESTYLE RELAY:
1 First Flight Swim Team-VA (Schuyler Wilson, Hayden Hall, Kira Walters, Laney Dexter) 2:13.76
2 Manteo High School-NC (Gwyneth Benkusky, Francesca Mueller, Sterling Wright, Meredith Gaskill) 2:14.18
3 Perquimans County High School (Catherine Howell, Mariah Clark, Hailey Bass, Joliegh Connor) 2:16.08

EVENT 16 BOYS 200 SC METER FREESTYLE RELAY:
1 First Flight Swim Team-VA (Spivey, Jack; Miller, Luke; Brown, Dan; Thiessen, Logan) 2:02.11
2 First Flight Swim Team-VA (Noah Savage; Thomas McGraw; Waddington, Bert; Corey, Daven) 2:08.72
3 Perquimans County High School (Jay Roberts, Andrew Whitehurst, Jack Goudy, Colin Tibbs) 2:20.98

EVENT 17 GIRLS 100 SC METER BACKSTROKE:
1 Meredith Gaskill (Manteo High School-NC) 1:18.45
2 Hayden Hall (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:31.22
3 Piper Hedgepath (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:32.34
4 Ashlyn Corey (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:36.56
5 Delaney Hanf (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:41.65

EVENT 18 BOYS 100 SC METER BACKSTROKE:
1 Merrick Shumaker (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:18.88
2 Will Robinson (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:23.55
3 Landon Creamer (Manteo High School-NC) 1:24.30
4 Bert Waddington (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:42.31
5 Sam Sabora (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:46.50

EVENT 19 GIRLS 100 SC METER BREASTSTROKE:
1 Catherine Howell (Perquimans County High School) 1:27.08
2 Gwyneth Benkusky (Manteo High School-NC) 1:28.68
3 Cameron Piland (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:41.02
4 Kat Gregg (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:51.97
5 Melanie Kelley (Perquimans County High School) 1:58.05

EVENT 20 BOYS 100 SC METER BREASTSTROKE:
1 Dylan Hallac (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:24.61
2 Luke Miller (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:33.91
3 Daven Corey (First Flight Swim Team-VA) 1:36.89
4 Jay Roberts (Perquimans County High School) 1:51.73
5 Colin Tibbs (Perquimans County High School) 1:54.50

EVENT 21 GIRLS 400 SC METER FREESTYLE RELAY:
1 Perquimans County High School (Hailey Bass, Mariah Clark, Joliegh Connor, Catherine Howell) 5:07.42
2 First Flight Swim Team-VA (Lana Walters, Delaney Hanf, Cameron Piland, Laney Dexter) 5:16.78
3 First Flight Swim Team-VA (Chloe Wienert, Saylor Willis, Piper Hedgepath, Maura Trivette) 5:18.79

EVENT 22 BOYS 400 SC METER FREESTYLE RELAY:
1 First Flight Swim Team-VA (Dylan Hallac, Noah Savage, Thomas McGraw, Jack Brown) 4:32.05
2 Perquimans County High School (Jay Roberts, Andrew Whitehurst, Jack Goudy, Colin Tibbs) 5:37.85

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