The Tallulah Falls School varsity swimmers dominated this past Friday night at the annual Winter Snow Invitational. The girls placed 1st out of 5 teams with 512 points, almost 200 points ahead of the 2nd place team. The boys team placed 1st out of 5 teams with 417 points, just 12 points ahead of the 2nd place team.
Notable individual swims include Madison Dampier’s 1st-place finishes in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly. She also earned state qualifying times in these two events. Montgomery Dampier finished 1st and earned state qualifying times in both the 200-yard Individual Medley and the 100-yard breaststroke. She set a new school record in the 100-yard breaststroke, breaking the previous record held by Virginia Griswold (’19).
Emre Sungur set new school records in both the 200-yard freestyle and 500-yard freestyle, breaking records he had set earlier in the season. Sungur earned 1st place in these races as well. Sungur, Madison, Montgomery, Layne Kafsky, Lily Turpin, Jason Dong, Henry Rickman, Nelson Wilkinson, Daya Ssemakula, Karis Tatum, and Tamia Moss all swam to top 3-finishes in their individual events.
“All varsity swimmers competed in at least one scoring relay, this group effort led to victory for both teams,” says coach Rachel Nichols.
The varsity swimmers return to the pool on January 8 at the Shiver Me Timbers Invitational at home.
