PAGE A20, KEIZERTIMES, JANUARY 28, 2022
Celts pull off sweep over Caldera
IN THE
McNary swimmer Caleb Skipper won the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:04.92.
Pool
Photo by MATT RAWLINGS of Keizertimes
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
For the second time in three weeks, the
McNary swim team pulled off a sweep in
their dual meet on Thursday, Jan. 20. The
Celtic girls' beat Caldera 81-55 while the
boys' squad won by a score of 88-65.
“We had a lot of kids step up. We just
did the things we needed to do to get those
wins. We only won a few races on the indi-
vidual side, but we had tons of second and
third place swimmers and we performed
really well in the relays,” McNary head
coach Casey Lewin said.
The best relay team for the McNary
boys’ this season has been the 200-yard
medley squad of Caleb Skipper, Tyshin
Nguyen, Zander Rhoades and Zach Kilby.
After getting ahead early, the McNary team
fell behind by a few seconds going into the
fi nal leg of the race. But Kilby, one of the
fastest freestyle swimmers in the league,
made up the diff erence as the anchor and
touched the wall more than two seconds
faster than his opponent.
“We knew it was going to be a close
race. It was mentally huge to perform well
against a Bend school in that relay,” Lewin
said.
Kilby didn't compete in the 100-free, but
his teammate Brayden Kaehler, a freshman,
was able to pick up the slack, winning the
race and fi nishing under a minute for the
fi rst time in his young career (59.48).
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