GSw RANKINGS: North Central swaps spots with Zionsville at No. 3

By E. Shawn Aylsworth
Managing Editor

The Indiana High School Swim Coaches’ Association has released its fifth poll for the 2012-13 girls swimming season, and North Central (Indianapolis) has traded places with Zionsville in moving from fourth to third behind holdover Nos. 1-2 Carmel and Penn.

The rankings are made up by scoring a theoretical 16-place meet using the times/scores of the returning Top 18 individual event times from last year’s sectionals and state finals as well as the fastest reported times of this season.

Teams are listed by ranking followed by school and vote total. The IHSSCA’s Top 47 (from Jan. 8):

1. Carmel 333
2. Penn 173
3. North Central (Indianapolis) 162
4. Zionsville 158
5. Hamilton Southeastern 136
5. Mount Vernon (Posey) 136
7. Crown Point 124
8. Munster 121
9. Homestead 102
10. Fishers 101
11. Chesterton 99
12. Castle 65
13. Fort Wayne Snider 63
14. Noblesville 57
15. Westfield 54
16. Wawasee 37
17. Carroll (Fort Wayne) 34
17. Lebanon 34
19. Western 31
20. Center Grove 28
21. Avon 27
22. Evansville Reitz 24
23. Northridge 22
24. Lake Central 21
25. Valparaiso 20
26. New Albany 16
26. South Bend St. Joseph’s 16
28. LaPorte 13
28. Richmond 13
30. NorthWood 12
31. Rochester 11
31. Yorktown 11
33. Plainfield 9
33. Terre Haute South 9
35. Concord 7
35. Lawrence North 7
37. Franklin Community 6
37. Heritage Hills 6
39. Columbus North 5
39. Maconaquah 5
41. Fort Wayne Dwenger 4
41. Whiteland 4
43. McCutcheon 3
44. South Adams 2
44. Indianapolis Ritter 2
46. Connersville 1
46. Muncie Central 1