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Glen Strandberg
Sports Editor
In similar fashion to its two previous meets, the Forest Lake swimming and diving team was able to look beyond the final score and take note on how they’re improving.
“Woodbury was a good meet. We held up well to the competition,” head swim coach Barbara Vailodash said.
The Royals were the latest Suburban East Conference opponent on the calendar, and they were able to head home Jan. 31 with a 90-80 victory over the Rangers.
Those 10 points might have been made up on the diving board, but now we’ll never know.
Woodbury would not dive at Forest Lake’s Southwest Junior High pool.
“For the first time ever, since we’ve been diving against them, (they) refused to sign waivers to dive at our pool,” head diving coach Deb Welch said. “It was very disappointing, since each year our divers have chosen to sign a waiver to dive at their high school pool.”
With the evening already designated as Parent’s Night, Forest Lake divers elected to stage an exhibition. They entertained the crowd with a variety of dives that will not likely see competition, but they were fun to watch.
The Rangers close out the regular season with a home meet on Thursday against Cretin-Derham Hall.
Sections begin Thursday, Feb. 21 and run through Saturday, Feb. 23.
Swimming notables
1st place —
• Josh Stomberg (200 freestyle)
“With an amazing 1:57.51, dropping another couple of seconds off last years PB (personal best),” Vailodash added.
• Elijah Miller (200 IM, 100 breaststroke)
Miller broke his own pool record in the 100 breaststroke for the second time in three weeks.
• John Goossens (50- and 100-yard freestyle)
2nd place —
• 200 medley relay team (Peter Sandager, Zach Curtis, Kevin Lalla and Frank O’Neil)
• 200 free relay (Ricky Fleming, O’Neil, Miller, Goossens)
• Eric Moris (100 backstroke, PB 1.03.46)
• 400 freestyle relay (Stomberg, Clint Krummi, Miller and Goossens)
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