MEDIA
INFORMATION
February 3, 2009
Contact: Jason Wille, Sports Information
Director
E–Mail:
jwille@ihsaa.org
GIRLS
SWIMMING & DIVING SECTIONALS START THURSDAY
A total of
239 schools are entered as the 35th Annual IHSAA Girls Swimming & Diving
Tournament Series gets underway Thursday afternoon, Feb. 5, with sectional
preliminary heats at 20 sites around the state. Diving prelims and semifinals
start Saturday morning, Feb. 7, at each site with consolations and finals in
each event scheduled for later in the day.
All first
place swimming event winners in each sectional will advance to the state meet
along with any participant who equals or betters the state time standard in
that event’s consolation or championship heat. The next fastest times in each
event also will qualify in order to bring the field to 32 entrants. The top
four divers at each sectional will advance to one of four diving regionals slated for Tuesday, Feb. 10, with the top eight
advancing to the state meet. This year’s state finals are set for Feb. 13-14 at
the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis.
Looking
ahead to next week’s state finals, top-ranked Carmel will be chasing its 23rd
consecutive state championship which would set a new national high school
record in girls swimming and diving. Currently, the Greyhounds share the mark
of 22 with Punahou High School of Honolulu, HI which
won 22 straight from 1974-95.
Results
from each sectional site will be posted to the IHSAA website as they become
available this weekend. State finals heat sheets will be available beginning
Sunday, Feb. 8. Diving regional results and the order of participants for the
state meet will be posted on Wednesday, Feb. 11.
Sectionals
Dates
Thursday,
Feb. 5, 2009 (Swimming Preliminaries).
Saturday,
Feb. 7, 2009 (Diving, Consolations & Finals in Swimming
events).
Admission: $5 per
session; $8 both sessions.
Tournament Notes
Defending Sectional Champions
Carmel, Center Grove, Chesterton, Columbus North, Crawfordsville, Crown
Point, Floyd Central, Hamilton Southeastern, Homestead, Jasper, Lafayette
Jefferson, Lawrence North, Logansport, Mount Vernon, North Central
(Indianapolis), Northridge, Norwell, Penn, Richmond, Zionsville.
Active Sectional Championship
Streaks (Three or more years)
25:
Columbus North.
24: Carmel.
19: Center
Grove.
12:
Hamilton Southeastern.
9:
Chesterton.
7:
Northridge.
6:
Crawfordsville, Penn.
4:
Homestead, Lafayette Jefferson, Richmond.
3: Mount
Vernon, Zionsville.
Most All-Time Consecutive Sectional
Championships
25 by Columbus North, 1983-current.
Top 10 All-Time Sectional
Championships
29:
Columbus North.
25: Carmel.
23:
Lafayette Jefferson.
20:
Anderson, Elkhart Central, Munster.
19: Center
Grove.
17:
Crawfordsville, Penn.
16:
Chesterton, Lake Central.
INDIVIDUAL, TEAM REGIONALS
THIS WEEK IN WRESTLING
With the
start of last Saturday’s sectional round of the 71st Annual IHSAA Individual
Wrestling Tournament Series, the sport now breaks off into two separate
tournaments. Each of the sectional championship teams now advance
their full complement of wrestlers to regional action in the 14th Annual Team
Wrestling Tournament Series at eight sites Wednesday, Feb. 4. Following two
rounds of dual competition that evening, the regional championship teams will
earn a berth in the Feb. 28 state finals at Center Grove High School in
Greenwood.
Meanwhile,
in the individual tournament, the top four wrestlers from Saturday’s sectionals
head to regional action this Saturday at 16 various sites. The top four
participants in each weight class will qualify for the individual semi-states
on Saturday, Feb. 14.
Results
from each site will be posted to the IHSAA website as they become available
this weekend.
Please note that the South
Dearborn Sectional, scheduled for completion this evening, has been postponed
to Wednesday due to weather. Because of that, the Seymour Team Regional, originally
scheduled for Wednesday at 6 pm ET, has been pushed back to Thursday at 6 pm
ET.
Team Regionals
Date: Wednesday,
Feb. 4, 2009.
Admission: $6.
Qualifiers: The
championship team in the individual sectional tournament advances to the regional
round of the team tournament.
Advancement: This is a single elimination
tournament in which the winning team advances to the next round.
> Pairings
Individual Regionals
Date: Saturday,
Feb. 7, 2009.
Admission: $6.
Advancement: The top
four place winners in each weight class advance to the semi-state tournament.
Team Tournament Notes
Defending Regional Champions Still
Alive (12 of 16)
Avon, Bellmont, Columbus North, Crown Point, Delphi, Elkhart
Memorial, Evansville Mater Dei, Merrillville, Mishawaka, New Haven, Perry
Meridian, Peru. Note: South Dearborn Sectional
yet to be decided.
Active Regional Championship Streaks
(Three or more years)
30:
Evansville Mater Dei.
15: Bellmont.
9:
Mishawaka.
7: Elkhart
Memorial.
5:
Merrillville.
3: Perry
Meridian.
Most Consecutive Regional
Championships
30 by Evansville Mater Dei (1979-current).
Top 10 All-Time Regional
Championships
30: Evansville Mater Dei.
27: Bellmont.
20: Mishawaka.
15: Delta, Portage.
14: Bloomington South, New Castle.
13: Lawrence North.
12: Carmel, Indianapolis Cathedral, Warren Central.
STATE STATISTICAL LEADERS
Girls
Basketball State Leaders | Boys
Basketball State Leaders
NEWS & NOTES FROM AROUND THE STATE
Have an
interesting note? A conference or school record, coaching
milestone or something else of interest? Please e-mail IHSAA Sports
Information Director Jason Wille at jwille@ihsaa.org for consideration.
North Miami
girls basketball player Alicia Burrus scored the 1,000th
point of her career against Wabash on Jan 24, 2009. She is the fourth girl in
school history to reach that mark.
Rossville’s
Aaron Martin became the 15th
varsity boys basketball player in school history to
score 1,000 career points during a 71-59 victory at Frontier on January 3.
Fort Wayne Bishop
Luers junior Deshaun Thomas recently
broke the Allen County scoring record on January 16 in a 76-69 win over Fort
Wayne Northrop. Needing only three points to break the record, Thomas did
so with a three-pointer just 1:19 into the game and finished with 27 points and
15 rebounds. The previous county record of 1,823 points was previously
held by Fort Wayne Elmhurst's James Hardy, now a wide receiver with the Buffalo
Bills. Prior to Hardy breaking the record in 2004, the scoring mark had stood
for 40 years. Two games later on Jan. 23, Thomas scored 33 points in a
75-68 win over Harding to pass his own coach's career scoring mark of 1,897
points. His coach, James Blackmon, played for Marion from 1980-83. Thomas
is only 52 points shy of moving into the top 50 all-time scoring leaders in
state history.
Tri High
School senior Shaye Warman
became the girls all-time leading scorer with 11
points in a victory over Monroe Central on Jan. 24. She passed Denise Shelton
(1998) with a total of 1,251 points in her career.
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