NISCA had awarded the All-American designation to the top 100 public
school swimmers/divers in each of the 13 events and the top 30 private
school swimmers/divers in each of the events. This year, the NISCA
awarded All-American designation to the top 130 swimmers in each event,
ignoring whether the swimmer was from a public or private school and
choosing not to adjust the number to account for the increasing
popularity of the sport.
Keeping in mind that there are over 250,000
high school swimmers, the percent of swimmers who earn an All-American
Award is very small. So how many of this year�s All-Americans do you think came from Indiana?
that there are about the same number of All-Americans in each state,
you would estimate 2-3 per event in Indiana. It turns out that two
states did not have swimming this year, but that really would not
affect your guess. If you based your guess on state population, since
Indiana has just over 2% of the national population, you also would
estimate 2-3 per event. But swimming is relatively popular in Indiana.
About 3.5% of Indiana high school students participate on a swim team.
Given the popularity here in Indiana, you might actually guess a little
higher than the numbers above, maybe 4-5 swimmers per event.
Perhaps you are not surprised to learn that the swimmers in Indiana
earned far more than that number of All-Americans Awards. Overall,
Indiana was ranked 6th among states in the total number of All-American
awards.
The Hoosier boys earned 189 All American Awards. The only
states earning more are substantially larger in population (CA ââ?¬â?? 335,
PA ââ?¬â?? 249, TX – 237, MI ââ?¬â?? 211, and IL ââ?¬â?? 194).
Below is a list of the All-American performances for Indiana High School swimmers:
|
|
Expected Number of |
Actual Number ofAll Americans |
|
INDIVIDUAL |
|
|
|
200 Free |
2-5 |
6 |
|
200 IM |
2-5 |
13 |
|
50 Free |
2-5 |
8 |
|
Diving |
2-5 |
4 |
|
100 Fly |
2-5 |
9 |
|
100 Free |
2-5 |
8 |
|
500 Free |
2-5 |
6 |
|
100 Back |
2-5 |
9 |
|
100 ****** |
2-5 |
14 |
|
Total individual |
18-45 |
77 |
|
|
|
|
|
RELAYS (4 per team) |
|
|
|
200 Medley Relay |
8-20 |
52 |
|
200 Free Relay |
8-20 |
28 |
|
400 Free Relay |
8-20 |
32 |
|
Total on Relays |
24-60 |
112 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
42-63 |
189 |
The
schools and names are an impressive list of Indiana athletes.
Most impressive were the 200 IM and 100 Breastroke, two events in which
about 10% of All-Americans in these events were in Indiana. Since
only the top 8 make it back to finals at the state meet, the winner of
the consolation heat in Indiana was fast enough to win many state meets!
There
were 44 young men from Indiana who earned individual All American
Awards. Most earned two individual awards. As you can see in the table
below, the schools who finished well at the high school state swim meet
had many of these swimmers.
|
School Finish |
Name |
Grade |
School |
Events |
|
1st |
Michael Christy |
11 |
North Central |
200 IM, 100 back |
|
1st |
Riley Boulden |
12 |
North Central |
200 IM, 100 ****** |
|
1st |
Peter Jameson |
12 |
North Central |
200 free, 100 fly, 100 free, 50 free, 100 back |
|
1st |
Drew Sease |
12 |
North Central |
200 free, 500 free, 100 fly, 100 free |
|
2nd |
Zach Johnson |
10 |
Homestead |
100 fly, |
|
2nd |
Robert Dent |
12 |
Homestead |
100 ******, |
|
2nd |
Andrew Hoffman |
12 |
Homestead |
200 free, 500 free |
|
2nd |
David Piercy |
12 |
Homestead |
diving, |
|
3rd |
Bill Bass |
9 |
Chesterton |
200 Free, 500 free |
|
3rd |
Albert Miller |
10 |
Chesterton |
100 back, |
|
3rd |
Gage Barry |
12 |
Chesterton |
50 free, 100 free |
|
4th |
Austin Mudd |
10 |
Hamilton Southeastern |
100 fly, 100 back |
|
4th |
Spencer Osborne |
11 |
Hamilton Southeastern |
100 back, 100 free |
|
4th |
Derek Paul |
10 |
Hamilton Southeastern |
100 ******, |
|
5th |
Andrew Kaminski |
10 |
Munster |
100 ******, |
|
5th |
Joseph Raycroft |
11 |
Munster |
200 IM, 100 back |
|
5th |
Bryan Chovanec |
12 |
Munster |
50 free, |
|
6th |
Christopher Pfaff |
11 |
South Bend Riley |
100 back, 50 free |
|
6th |
Timothy Blue |
12 |
South Bend Riley |
200 IM, 100 fly, 100 free |
|
7th |
Brenden Butler |
11 |
Yorktown |
200 IM, 500 free |
|
8th |
Jonathan Jensen |
12 |
Terre Haute North Vigo |
200 IM, 100 fly |
|
9th |
Mark Rushlow |
9 |
Northridge |
100 fly, |
|
10th |
James Page |
10 |
Crown Point |
diving, |
|
10th |
Chris Morin |
12 |
Crown Point |
100 fly, 50 free |
|
|
Bryson Chiu |
12 |
Carmel |
200 IM, 100 back |
|
|
Samuel Trahin |
9 |
Carroll |
500 free, |
|
|
Aaron Opell |
12 |
Castle |
200 IM, 100 ****** |
|
|
Paul Brogan |
12 |
Center Grove |
100 ******, 200 IM |
|
|
Chris Oleksiak |
12 |
Center Grove |
500 free, |
|
|
Tyler Lemert |
11 |
Concordia Lutheran |
200 IM, 100 ******, 50 free |
|
|
Cameron Hobson |
10 |
Crawfordsville |
200 IM, 100 ****** |
|
|
Jeremy Kline |
12 |
Crawfordsville |
50 free, |
|
|
James McLaughlin |
12 |
Culver Academies |
100 ******, |
|
|
Sam Pelkey |
12 |
Delta |
100 ******, 200 IM |
|
|
Caleb Dunnichay |
12 |
Elwood Community |
diving, |
|
|
Andrew Bretscher |
12 |
Greencastle |
50 free, 100 free |
|
|
Patrick Augustyn |
11 |
Highland |
100 fly, |
|
|
Chris Johnson |
9 |
Lake Central |
100 ******, |
|
|
Andrew Elliott |
10 |
Penn |
200 Free, 100 back |
|
|
Aaron Koger |
12 |
Richmond |
100 ******, |
|
|
Nate Taylor |
12 |
Warsaw Community |
200 IM, 100 ****** |
|
|
Jordan Rantz |
12 |
Wawasee |
100 ******, |
|
|
Ben Wachtel |
10 |
Westfield |
100 free, |
|
|
Alex Ismail |
11 |
Zionsville Community |
200 Free, |
There were a lot of seniors in this group ââ?¬â?? more than half. But
21 of these swimmers were not seniors and will likely return this next
year. The power of these returning swimmers is found in Hamilton
Southeastern, Chesterton, and Munster. (Other schools have only one
returning.) From this perspective, the battle for state could likely be
the clash among these three schools.
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