Lancers Take 2nd and 3rd in Springfield Swim Meet
- Name: Lafayette High School Swimming & Diving Team
- School or league: Lafayette High School
- Team: Lady Lancers Swimming & Diving
- Award: 2nd and 3rd Place in Springfield Invitational
Lafayette Girls Swimming & Diving took 2nd and 3rd place at a swim meet in Springfield, MO on Jan. 25 and 26, competing against six other teams during the Friday competition and 19 other teams on Saturday.
During the “Friday Night Fights” meet, the Lancers took 2nd to the Kansas City area team, Glendale, with a final score of 334 to 273.
Highlights from that event were:
- 1st place, 200 Medley Relay, Mae Riordan, Claire Kirchhoefer, Taylor Holz, Katherine Lucken
- 2nd place, 200 Free, Kirchhoefer
- 1st and 2nd place, 200 IM, Riordan and Gretchen Cox
- 2nd place, 100 Backstroke, Lucken
- 1st place, 100 Breast, Kirchhoefer
- 3rd place, 400 Free Relay, Laura Paskoff, Riordan, Cox, Lauren Hansen
- Divers Grace Delaney and Anna Bader represented the team and took 7th and 11th place respectively.
Lafayette took 3rd place in the meet against 19 other teams on Saturday with 319.5 points behind Notre Dame Di Sion with 340 points and Glendale with 326 points.
Highlights from that event were:
- 1st place, 200 Medley Relay, Katherine Lucken, Claire Kirchhoefer, Taylor Holz, Laura Paskoff
- 3rd place, 200 Free, Riordan
- 2nd place, 200 IM, Kirchhoefer
- 3rd place, 50 Free, Paskoff
- 3rd place, 200 Free, Paskoff
- 1st place, 500 Free, Riordan
- 1st place, 100 Breast, Kirchhoefer
- 3rd place, 400 Free Relay, Paskoff, Holz, Gretchen Cox
- Divers Emily Slater and Kelly Shaw took 7th and 8th place.