Swimming finishes post season at state
Finishing up a two-day state championship meet at St. Peter’s Rec-Plex in St. Louis, the girls swimming and diving team ended their respectable season. After sending 13 individual qualifiers to compete alone and as a team, the girls took 15th in the state out of 48 teams competing and gained a state champion in the [...]
Swim team dives into competition, faces setbacks
After an intense season last year ending with their first ever state championship, the girls swimming team is working even harder for the upcoming State Championship Preliminaries on Feb. 15. However, competing is proving to be difficult because of recent changes to the organization of the team. With a new year came a big change [...]
Swimming Week 6
Swimming and diving came away from this weekend’s meet at Parkways South with another qualification from freshman Katy Lydon. Lydon qualified for the 500 freestyle and amazed her teammates. “It’s always really exciting when someone qualifies,” senior Maggie Washer said. “We were all cheering, and she was really close, and we were all nervous she’s [...]
Diets give teams health standards
A fancy breakfast of pancakes with syrup and powdered sugar is the furthest thing from ideal for junior basketball player Jackson Dubinksi. For his first meal instead, he blends up a protein shake and sits it next to his balanced meal of cereal, oatmeal and fruit every morning. These choices may not sound too satisfying [...]
RBHS, HHS host Columbia Invitational
For the first time this season, the RBHS girls swimming and diving team hosted a meet today, Dec. 22. The Columbia Invite, which took place at the Hickman High School aquatic center, brought in the local crowd and 15 other teams from around the state. Today’s meet was an exciting one for the team, as [...]
Swimming, diving ends tourney in third
The girls swimming and diving team competed in its second meet of the season today, Dec. 16, in Independence, Mo. Out of the 22 teams that took part in today’s meet, RBHS girls swimming and diving took third place at the team’s second outing. The Independence Invitational was another testing experience for this new swimming and [...]
Girls swimming, diving begins season
The girls swimming and diving team, led by head coach Peter Willet, kicked off its season Dec. 8. The team finished in seventh place, while taking first place in two separate relay events at the Marquette Relays. Today’s meet had no individual races, but instead consisted of team events known as relays, where four swimmers participate for [...]
Swimming, diving finish season at state
The swimming and diving team completed their seasons today, Nov. 10, competing in the 2012 State High School Swimming and Diving Championships in the St. Peters Recreational Complex. The Bruins battled 43 other schools, tying for 26th place with Central High School in Springfield, with 21 points, as Rockhurst went on to take the gold [...]
Swimming, diving aim for state
The RBHS boys swimming and diving team prepares for the final leg of its post-season journey. The team is already at the St. Peters Rec-Plex, preparing for the diving finals and swimming prelims today and swimming finals tomorrow, Nov. 10. RBHS has eight qualifiers for the state meet. Although they worked hard in preparation for [...]
Swimming, diving competes in ‘Last Chance’ meet, looks forward to state
The RBHS swimming and diving team competed in their ‘Last Chance’ meet today, Nov. 3, at Hickman High School’s aquatic center against Hannibal and Marshall. Today marked the team’s final meet before the state swimming and diving competition next weekend. With state only a week away, today was the last opportunity for RBHS swimmers and [...]
Swimming and Diving continues improvement, looks forward to ‘Last Chance’ meet
The swimming and diving team competed against Rockhurst today, Oct. 27, at Hickman’s indoor aquatic center. RBHS placed second out of the two teams, but it was still a productive day as many swimmers improved their times in an attempt to qualify for the state championship competition in two weeks. Rockhurst, usually a powerhouse athletic [...]
Swimming, diving heads into home stretch with impressive performance
The swimming and diving team competed in the Springfield Invitational this evening, Saturday, Oct. 20, finishing in sixth place out of 19 teams, another solid placing for the team. Competitions gain more and more importance to the team as the year goes on and as the season approaches post season and its ending point – the [...]
Swimming, diving makes progress at Greater Kansas City Invitational
The swimming and diving team spent the weekend competing in Greater Kansas City Invitational, going up against 20 others schools from around the region. The team spent Friday night in preliminary races attempting to qualify for the semifinals and finals which took place today, October 13. The RBHS Swimming and Diving team finished in eighth place out of [...]
Swimmers keep chins above water
It is no secret that after the summer Olympics, the popularity of sports such as swimming and diving skyrocketed in America. When the nation’s aquatic representatives dominated as they did in London it’s hard for such fervor not to reach a fever pitch, resulting in a nation fascinated with the pool and ready to dive [...]
Swimming, diving hosts Como invitational
Updated Sept. 30, 2012 3:19 p.m. When the RBHS swimming and diving team gathered on MU campus at 8:30 as the hosts of the Como Invitational this morning Saturday, Sept. 29, they entered the Aquatic Center ready to show the other teams what Columbia was all about. “Some guys were a little nervous, but that [...]
Swimming, diving takes fifth in Truman Invitational
The Henley Aquatic Center of Independence, Mo., has been the site of many intense athletic exhibitions. On Friday and Saturday, Sept. 6 -7, the Truman Invitational Tournament took place in this echoing arena. Both the RBHS junior and the varsity swimmers and divers competed against the 26 teams at this invitational. After two days of [...]
Making a statement: girls swimming brings home MSHSAA title
Over a year ago the high school swimming program was almost cut from Columbia Public Schools’ budget because of low participation. Eleven girls made up the roster. Only one qualified for state. But Saturday night when the Bruins arrived at the Courtwarming dance after the state meet, the chant of “state champs” from the crowd [...]
Girls swimming team dominates state championship
The Bruin swim team won the state meet this afternoon, Saturday, Feb 18. The team edged Glendale 213-182 to take home the first state title in Rock Bridge swimming. The meet started out strong with a third place finish by the 200 medley relay team of sophomore Hannah Flanagan, senior Bri Noltie, senior Kate Walker, [...]
Bruins qualify eight swimmers in state preliminaries
The girls swim team had a strong showing at the preliminaries of the state meet qualifying eight swimmers and all three relays for the finals on Saturday. Swimmers competing Saturday include freshman Libby Walker, sophomores Chelsea Tatlow, Hanna Flanagan, Kourtney Betz, Lily Salzer and Madeline Simon and seniors Bri Noltie and Kate Walker. The girls [...]
Swimmers top personal records at last chance meet
The swim team competed today in its final meet of the season before post-season begins next Saturday, Feb. 18 at Hickman Pool. The “last chance” meet provided swimmers a final opportunity to qualify for state. However, since the state lineup is already set, the meet was more for swimmers to prepare for the state meet [...]
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