TCS Middle School Swim Team

wraps up a strong season

The TCS Middle School Swim Team, coached by Jodie Murr, had fun competing at the 2023 GAPPS State Championship meet this past Saturday, January 28th! The Girls’ team won 5th place and the Boys’ team won 4th place.

It was bittersweet for our 8th graders who competed in their last meet as middle schoolers. Eighth grade swimmer Malachi Ledesma has been on the swim team since 6th grade.

Many of our swimmers improved their event times throughout the season. Thanks to our new 6th and 7th grade swimmers, our swim team experienced growth this year. We look forward to even more participation next year.

Congratulations to all of our swimmers who qualified and competed at this year’s State Championship meet!

(Pictured from left to right) Malachi Ledesma (8th), Patrick Moss (7th), Cooper Gallaway (6th), Sawyer Boone (6th), Ryleigh Tilley (7th), Elle Jerger (7th), Kennedie Callen (7th), Addison Klingler (6th), Taylor Clark (8th), Avery Ross (8th), Presley Boone (8th), and Emma Anderson (7th).

1st Place Win for Trinity Varsity Swim Team

By Samantha DePriest

Images by Michele Seymour

Swimming is in its 8th season at Trinity with HS Science Teacher Mr. Devin James as our Varsity Coach and Ms. Jodie Murr as the Middle School Coach and Head Swim Coach for TCS. Our Varsity Swim team took 1st place at the AGS Meet on Friday, November 18th and Middle School Swim team placed 9th. We asked the Coaching staff about the season so far and they have never been more excited for this swim season at Trinity.

Varsity Swim Coach Devin James shares “The first 4 meets of the varsity swim season have been great. We had two state qualifiers as early as the second meet of the season. In addition to that, our boys relay is only 3 seconds away from a state qualifying time. We also broke several team records already. I am also very proud that at our most recent meet the varsity team took 1st place overall at AGS swim meet at Georgia Tech. Every varsity swimmer there had at least one, if not several, top 5 finishes in that meet. We have two swimmers already qualified for state with a couple only a couple seconds away including our boys relay team. We had a great swim at state last year and had several top 20 finishes for our division in the state. We are looking to be even more competitive this year as we already have so many qualifying times. I am so proud of the team so far and am very excited for the rest of the season.”

Middle School Swim Coach Jodie Murr shares, “The middle school has accomplished a lot in the first meets of the season! We have had several state qualifiers in many events. The swimmers have done a great job of getting personal best times at each meet and event that they swim. We have many swimmers who have never competed before and all swimmers continue to grow in their development. We have a middle school only meet this Saturday and we are sure the team will do great and have even more time drops and personal bests!”

TCS Swim Team Highlights

Kaitlyn Seymour (Sr) is a returning Individual State Qualifier from last year.

Jackson Rice (Jr), Bryce Ryan (So), and Elliott Pabst (So) are returning State Relay Qualifiers.

Bryce Ryan has qualified for state in the 100 Fly, 200 & 500 Freestyle and 100 Backstroke.

Kaitlyn Seymour has qualified for state in the 50 & 100 Freestyle

Kaitlyn & Bryce have broken a combined 7 school records in 4 meets.

Kaitlyn: 50yd, 100yd & 200yd Freestyle

Bryce: 200yd & 500yd Freestyle, 100yd Backstroke, & 100yd Fly