Bulldog swimmers finish fifth at Metro meet

Bulldog swimmers finish fifth at Metro meet

Courier sports staff Ottumwa Courier

DES MOINES — The Ottumwa girls swim team has been persevering all season long.

They continued to do so on Thursday night at the CIML Metro Conference meet held at Des Moines Roosevelt.

Ottumwa — missing two of its key swimmers in Maranda Rupalo and Megan Black — managed a fifth-place showing with a team total of 201.

“It was a good night. I can’t speak highly enough about the team,” said Ottumwa head coach Stephanie Carroll. “We had a great finish.”

Roosevelt ran away with the meet with a whopping total of 541 — winning seven events.

Ottumwa ended the meet with a second-place showing in the final event of the night — the 400 free relay. The Bulldog foursome of Caroline Carlson, Claire Carlson, Marissa Rupalo and Maren Melvold swam to a 4:25.62 clip.

Melvold, Ottumwa’s foreign-exchange student from Norway – finished seventh in the breaststroke (1:18.2) and eighth in the butterfly (1:12.83). Freshman Marissa Rupalo, who hails from Centerville, placed eighth in the backstroke (1:13.65) and ninth in the butterfly (1:13.35). OHS frosh Caroline Carlson swam to a eighth-place finish in 1:04.04 in the 100 freestyle.

Ottumwa competes at the regional meet in Johnston on Saturday, Oct. 29.



CIML Metro Conference meet

at Des Moines Roosevelt

Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011

Team Scores — 1. Des Moines Roosevelt 541; 2. Des Moines Lincoln 337; 3. Des Moines Hoover 332; 4. Des Moines North 258; 5. Ottumwa 201; 6. Des Moines East 136.

Results

200 Medley Relay — 1. Des Moines Roosevelt 1:56.23 (Catherine Bening, Emma Gaer, Melissa Veenstra, Erika Dorff); 6. Ottumwa 2:11.57 (Claire Carlson, Maren Melvold, Marissa Rupalo, Danielle Noe).

200 Freestyle — 1. Claire Larson (R) 2:01.43; 13. Jill Ardueser (O) 2:31.73; 15. Camilla Guldager (O) 2:49.82; 16. Bethany Knox (O) 2:53.43.

200 Individual Medley — Katharine Ross (N) 2:08.85; 14. Noe (O) 2:56.82.

50 Freestyle — 1. Brittany Purcell (L) 26.01; 10. Caroline Carlson (O) 27.96; 11. Noe (O) 28.53; 14. Amber Johnson (O) 29.56.

100 Butterfly — 1. Mariah Ross (N) 1:03.54; 8. Melvold (O) 1:12.83; 9. Marissa Rupalo (O) 1:13.35.

100 Freestyle — 1. Larson (R) 57.07; 8. Caroline Carlson (O) 1:04.04; 14. Claire Carlson (O) 1:08.08; 16. Whitney Dostal (O) 1:10.96.

500 Freestyle — 1. Jordan Summers (R) 5:33.83; 12. Ardueser (O) 6:56.52; 14. Kenzie McCoy (O) 7:02.85.

200 Free Relay — 1. Des Moines Roosevelt 1:45.66 (Veenstra, Dorff, Summers, Larson); 5. Ottumwa 2:00.97 (Carlson, Johnson, Noe, McCoy).

100 Backstroke — 1. Summers (R) 1:04.24; 8. Marissa Rupalo (O) 1:13.65; 11. Johnson (O) 1:15.62; 12. Claire Carlson (O) 1:16.44.

100 Breaststroke — 1. Ross (N)* 1:03.7; 7. Melvold (O) 1:18.2; 11. McCoy (O) 1:27.31; 14. Katie Zingg (O) 1:30.96.

400 Free Relay — 1. Des Moines Roosevelt 3:52.2 (Veenstra, Dorff, Summers, Larson); 2. Ottumwa 4:25.62 (Caroline Carlson, Claire Carlson, Marissa Rupalo, Melvold).

* Conference record