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July 29, 2021
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Goochland swimmers victorious in Day 1 of CHAMPS Staff Reports
In the Goochland Manta Rays’ final 12-and-under event of the Greater Richmond Aquatic League CHAMPS meet, which began Monday at Swim RVA, the four-swimmer team of Lucas Le, Jude Chapman, Andrea Rogerson and Ryan Johnson charged from eighth to first to win the mixed 11-12 200-yard freestyle varsity relay in 2:00.6. While all seven opposing teams surged ahead in the opening half of the relay, Le and Chapman both kept their competitors within reach, enabling Rogerson to pull even with the lead pack on a blistering swim of 28.47 seconds. Johnson, who jumped up to second place after diving into the pool, tracked down and overtook the leader within the final 30 yards of the race and maintained the lead to complete his team’s rally to take the top spot. Johnson delivered a fiery time of 26.69 in the final leg. The Manta Rays also won the mixed 8 and under 100yard medley JV relay when Caroline McCory (backstroke), Wesley Cheatham (breaststroke), Cora Chapman (butterfly) and Caroline Darden (freestyle) collectively swam their way to a first-place time of 1:35.58. Many swimmers represented the Manta Rays in the first day of the GRAL Champs meet on Monday. The 9-10 200-yard freestyle JV relay team of Nathaniel Carter, Lane Ways, Audrey Darden and Kendra Cheatham took fourth in the division with a time of 2:30.1, and the 8 and under 100-yard freestyle JV relay team of Cora Chapman, Caroline McCory, Wesley Cheatham and Caroline
Photos by Nick Vandeloecht/Goochland Gazette
From left: Ryan Johnson swims the boys 11-12 50-yard freestyle, and Andrea Rogerson swims the girls 11-12 100-yard individual medley on Monday.
From left: Jude Chapman and Lucas Le both swim the breaststroke, and Caroline McCory pushes off the block to begin her mixed medley relay event.
From left: Caroline Darden swims the freestyle, Wesley Cheatham swims the mixed medley relay and Cora Chapman swims the butterfly.
Darden swam a 1:31.61. In the mixed 11-12 200-yard freestyle JV relay event, Afton Carter, William Ways, Skyler Mann and Alex Horst swam a 2:18.98, and Mattie Brooks,
Camden Wilson, Sylvia Wirsing and Luca Gardner took second in their heat in 2:27.45. In the 11-12 age group of the mixed 200-yard medley relays, the senior varsity team of
Alex Horst, Jude Chapman, Rogerson and Johnson swam a 2:13.42 for sixth in the division, and the junior varsity team of Gardner, Wilson, Le and Mann were third in their heat and
fourth in JV in 2:32.39. Individually, Kendra Cheatham (girls 9-10) placed third overall and in the senior varsity division of the 50-yard freestyle (32.26), won her heat
and took third in the JV division of the 100-yard individual medley (1:31.55), took second in her heat of the 50 butterfly (44.57) and swam seventh
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