REMINDER -

The swim/dive banquet is scheduled for February 28th at 6:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria.

Please feel free to bring your favorite appetizer to share with everyone as well as drinks for your family that are attending! DJ’s cookies will be provided to satisfy your sweet tooth!

It will be a fun and wonderful way end an amazing season!!!!

THURSDAY AFTER SCHOOL Any athlete that confirmed for a state ticket will need to stop by the pool to pick up their pre-ordered FREE ticket!!! Also, state t-shirts orders that were made during the second ordering will be handed out!

Good Evening!
Yet another Sectional victory!!! Way to go boys! Just a few things:

1. Our final state shirt order will be placed Tuesday at 5pm. The order form is attached.

2. Be sure and order your state tickets on the IHSAA website and avoid a VERY long line at the IUPUI natatorium. We will be sitting in the east concourse (same a girls state). Wednesday at 2pm is your last chance to order your tickets. Please notify Tracy K. if you would like her to pick your tickets up for you.

3. *EVERY SWIMMER CAN RECIEVE A FREE TICKET *. Please email or text (3173719221) me no later than Tuesday 5pm if your swimmer would like a free ticket.

Let’s go boys! Swim fast at STATE!
Thanks!

GREAT NEWS!!! The Franklin Community High School Swimming and Diving girls team will be recognized at tomorrow nights basketball game (Tuesday). Please meet in the corner by the student section at 6:45pm Recognition will be at 7:00.

February 10, 2018

History teaches high school sports fans one thing: Swimming and Diving doesn’t offer much variety in Indiana at the top. The same teams, the supposed “Blue Blood” programs, have owned the top spots over the last decade: Carmel, Chesterton, Hamilton Southeastern, Fishers. Franklin ladies have done little to erase history but have done more than enough to help write a new chapter.

Franklin placed 4th in the team standings and scored 163 points on Saturday to earn their place as one of the premier programs in the state. It’s been quite the ascension over the past few years, where their efforts to join the state’s elite fell a bit short.

• 2018: 4th place finish at IHSAA State Championships, 163 pts.
• 2017: 12th place finish at IHSAA State Championships, 83 pts.
• 2016: 14th place finish at IHSAA State Championships, 58 pts.
• 2015: (DNP) Did not place at IHSAA State Championships, 0pts.

Franklin scored in every swimming event, with 7 different athletes doing their part in scoring points for the 4th placing girls team. Led by double-finalist Carla Gildersleeve, who placed 2nd and 4th in the 100 Butterfly and 200 Freestyle respectively, the Cubs also had two more athletes join the Franklin “Wall of Fame.” Two freshman, Kabria Chapman and Gracey Payne, made their way into Franklin Swimming & Diving history with their podium finishes in their respective events.

The largest sum of points, however, came from all three relays placing top-8. A team of Jessie Fraley, Kabria Chapman, Ali Terrell, and Gracey Payne finished as state runner-up to Carmel in the 200 Medley Relay to kick off the meet. Carla Gildersleeve, Ella Pheifer, Ali Terrell, and Gracey Payne placed 4th overall with a new school record in the 200 Freestyle Relay. In the last race of the day, it was Carla Gildersleeve, Ella Pheifer, Jessie Fraley, and Sarah Hoffman, racing to an 8th place finish to wrap up the state finals and the season.

On the season, Franklin broke 9 of the schools 11 swimming records, while also making the first appearance in the top 5 in school history. Franklin’s senior class was instrumental in changing the course of a program who hadn’t one a sectional title in 27 years, to a program that looks poised to compete with the state’s elite for years to come.

State Placers and best times from IHSAA State include:
• 200 Medley Relay – 1:43.67* – 2nd Place – Jessie Fraley, Kabria Chapman, Ali Terrell, and Gracey Payne
• 200 Freestyle – Carla Gildersleeve – 4th Place, 1:49.15*, Sarah Hoffman – 16th place, 1:52.56
• 200 IM – Ali Terrell – 9th place, 2:03.97*
• 50 Free – Ella Pheifer – 12th place, 23.72
• 100 Butterfly – Carla Gildersleeve – 2nd, 53.75*
• 100 Freestyle – Gracey Payne – 7th, 51.30*, Ella Pheifer – 16th 52.10
• 500 Freestyle – Sarah Hoffman – 15th, 5:00.16
• 200 Freestyle Relay – 1:34.74*, 4th – Gildersleeve, Pheifer, Terrell, Gracey Payne
• 100 Backstroke – Jessie Fraley – 16th, 57.53
• 100 Breaststroke – Kabria Chapman – 7th 1:04.16, Ali Terrell – 14th 1:05.19
• 400 Freestyle Relay – 3:29.15* – Gildersleeve, Pheifer, Fraley, Hoffman

Daily Journal State Articles:
Determined Grizzly Cubs evolving into premier program -
http://www.dailyjournal.net/2018/02/12/02122018dj_oleary_column/
Franklin breaks through with fourth-place finish –
http://www.dailyjournal.net/2018/02/12/02122018dj_state_gswim/

*IHSAA Results: *
http://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/girls%20sports/girls%20swimming/2017-18/201718GSWFinalResults.pdf

Team Standings:
http://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/girls%20sports/girls%20swimming/2017-18/201718GSWTeamScores.pdf