| Date |
Opponent |
Score |
| Nov. 18 |
Western (H) |
(W) 120-66
The Lady Katfish are off and rolling. We won every event except the 500-freestyle in beating Western 120-66. The girls were dominant in the 50-free and the 100-fly, sweeping the events by placing first, second, and third.
Katie Hingst and Lexi Laird were quadruple winners for the Lady Katfish. Hingst won the 200-free and the 100-breaststroke and was a member of the winning 200-medley relay team and the 400-free relay. Laird’s individual wins came in the 200-IM and the 100-backstroke, and she joined Hingst on the two aforementioned relays.
 Alex Ungerer was named the Swimmer of the Meet as she won the 50-free and played a key role on her two relays.
Sweeping the 50-free were Ungerer, Kelsey Griffin, and Sahara Johnson, while Jenna Gilbert, Aubrie Granson, and Margaret Booher accomplished the 100-butterfly sweep.
Brittany Gauger won the diving competition, and Rachel Pace was second for the winning Wildkats. –
Coach Walters
|
| Nov. 25 |
Harrison (H) |
(L) 101-84
The Lady Katfish won six of the twelve events, but we just couldn’t keep Harrison at bay as we lost 101-84. We just couldn’t hold off the depth that Harrison had, but I am extremely proud of all of our ladies. They really swam their hearts out.
Katie Hingst was a triple winner for us. Individually, she won the 200 IM and the 500-free, and joined Lexi Laird, Kelsey Griffin, and Annika Taber on the winning 200-medley relay team. Laird also took honors in the 100-backstroke, and Jenna Gilbert took the blue ribbon in the 200-free. Brittany Gauger won her specialty, diving, with Rachel Pace coming in second.
 The
Swimmer of the Meet was Abby Rolland. The sophomore stepped up to the plate and had an awesome 500-freestyle. She also had an awesome “pinch hit” in the 4x100 relay. Way to go, Abby!!
The Lady Katfish are off until December 10th when they join forces with our male counterparts to take on the Marion Giants. –
Coach Walters
|
| Dec. 6 |
Noblesville Diving (T) |
The
KHS divers finished second in both the boy’s and girl’s competition at the
inaugural Noblesville Diving Invitational. The girl’s team finished
runners-up to the host Millers, while the boy’s team was second to Carmel.
No further details were
provided. |
| Dec. 10 |
Marion (T) |
(W) 100-86
The Lady Katfish won nine of the 12 events. Quadruple winners Katie Hingst, Jenna Gilbert, and Lexi Laird led us. Our divers had a fine evening, too, with Brittany Gauger winning the meet and Rachel Pace finishing second.
 Rachel Pace was our
Performer of the Meet with an excellent score of 184, which was almost a lifetime best. We were impressed with all of the girl’s willingness to try new events tonight. -
Coach Walter |
| Dec. 13 |
Huntington North (H) |
(W) 118-68
We whooped up on Huntington North. Our girls won 11 of 12 events. We won 118 to 68. I swam our girls in lanes where they were able to keep an eye on who they needed to beat. Every single swimmer knew their job
 and executed our plan perfectly.
Katie Hingst was our Swimmer of the Meet for her quadruple win. She won the 100 breast, 500 free and the medley relay and the sprint relay. Several swimmers are dropping lots of time. Margaret Booher dropped another five seconds in her 100 fly and Abby Rolland dropped a total of seven seconds last week in her 500 free. Lexi Laird had a personal best 100 time and dropped below the minute for the first time in one year. She blew her old time away and swam a 58. Rachel Pace dove a solid 185 to score first place points. Diving is helping our meet scores tremendously as well!
I am very impressed with our underclass athletes as they are swimming very strong and adding tremendously to the bottom line of our meets. The ladies meet Maconaquah on Thursday and Saturday travel to the Nat for the annual Holiday Classic. –
Coach Walters
|
| Dec. 18 |
Maconaquah (H) |
The boys and girls swim meets with Maconaquah were
postponed. The meets will now be made up on January 7th at 6:00
p.m. at Kokomo High School. |
| Dec. 20 |
Holiday Classic @ IUPUI |
Kokomo finished second behind Columbus North and ahead of
Lafayette Jeff. Lexi Laird finished second in the 100 Back and Brittany
Gauger and Rachel Pace finished first and second in diving. |
| Dec. 22 |
Logansport (T) |
(W) 96-90
 Kelsey Griffin was named
Swimmer of
the Meet by coach Walter for her performance in the 100 breast and for her
hard work in practice. |
| Jan. 7 |
Maconaquah (H) |
(W) 110-76
Kokomo topped Maconaquah in a stunning fashion, 110-76. We had many lifetime bests and a complete domination by all of our ladies. The hard work and preparation we put forth over break really showed.
Katie Hingst won the 200 IM and the 100-backstroke, Jenna Gilbert took the 200- and 500-freestyles, and Lexi Laird claimed victories in the 50- and 100-free. Those three were joined by Annika Taber to win the 200-medley relay. Brittany Gauger led a sweep in diving with Rachel Pace second and Lexi Reed third, and the 200-freestyle relay team of Kelsey Griffin, Taber, Alex Ungerer, and Sahara Johnson also won.
I am looking forward to the conference meet and how well our ladies will swim with a taper. We have now improved to 5-1 in dual meets.. –
Coach Walters
 Coach Walters named
Jenna Gilbert Performer of the Meet for her efforts in the 200 and 500 freestyle.
|
| Jan. 8 |
Anderson (T) |
(W) 118-66
The ladies had 19 lifetimes on Wednesday and racked up more tonight. They are knocking my socks off. They are training harder than ever and swimming faster than ever. Performer of the meet…Lexi Laird and Laura
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 |
| Laird |
Aleshire |
Aleshire are Performers of the Meet. Laura dropped a combination of 14 seconds on her 500 free over the past 2 days and now is below her conference time from last year. Lexi has repeatedly been a quadruple winner for the ladies. -
Coach Walters |
| Jan. 13 |
Westfield (H) |
(L) 132-54
 Well…last night was a rough evening. Our only 1st place finish was
Brittany Gauger in diving. She was our Performer of the Meet as well.
Margaret Booher dropped 26 seconds in her 500-free last night.
Our ladies were met with adversity last night and didn’t fight back. They know this can’t happen this weekend. Ladies score was 132-54. –
Coach Walters
|
| Jan. 17 |
North Central Conference @ Ball State |
1. Richmond 427, 2. Muncie Central 322, 3. New Castle 305, 4. Logansport 246,
5. Kokomo 225, 6. Marion 206, 7. Huntington North 193, 8. Anderson 137.
Our ladies finished fifth at the N.C.C. meet. We got off to a bad start with a DQ in our medley relay that cost us 34 points right out of the gate. The ladies fought back and did NOT get down about this and ended up 5th. With the lost
points, we would have been 4th. We want our kids living on the
edge in a relay when they are in a place to win, but these are the knocks we
take sometimes. I saw some tremendous swimming and am proud of all of our
kids’ performances.
We had three ladies make
the All-N.C.C. team. Katie Hingst won the 200 IM and was second in the
500-free. Lexi Laird was also a conference champion with a first-place
finish in the 100-backstroke, and Brittany Gauger defended her title in
N.C.C. diving with another blue ribbon performance.
Rachel Pace had a fourth
place finish in diving, and Jenna Gilbert was fourth in the 100-fly. Laird
was 6th in the 100-free, and Annika Taber finished sixth in the
50-free and 10th in the 100-free. Gilbert was 7th in
the 200-free, Ashley Volikas 11th in diving, and Kelsey Griffin
was 11th in the 200 IM and 12th in the
100-breaststroke. Abby Rolland and Laura Aleshire were 14th and
16th, respectively, in the 500-free, Alex Ungerer was 12th
in the 100-back, and Margaret Booher was two spots behind Ungerer.
Our 400-freestyle relay
team of Laird, Taber, Gilbert, and Hingst finished in third place. The
200-free relay team of Ungerer, Booher, Griffin, and Sahara Johnson came in
eighth.
These ladies are working so
hard and dropping time like crazy. Now we move on to preparing for
sectionals. – Coach Walters
See
complete results
here. |
| Jan. 21 |
W. Laf./Harrison (T) 5:30 |
West Lafayette 122, Harrison 110, Kokomo 98
We put up an awesome fight last night. We just don’t have enough depth. We were third by 12 points to Harrison, a little closer than our dual meet. As we are working to build our program back, I am most pleased with all of the hard work and determination the ladies are showing.
Our firsts last night came from Katie Hingst in the 200 IM and the 100-breaststroke, Lexi Laird in the 100-backstroke and Brittany Gauger in diving. We also had
some excellent performances by
Kelsey Griffin, who was third in the 200 IM and Rachel Pace, who was third in diving. Kelsey was selected as our
Performer of the Meet by the team.
We are looking forward to Senior Night on the 27th against Frankfort. . .AND last to the Sectionals the first of February. –
Coach Walters
|
| Jan. 27 |
Frankfort (H) |
Weather cancellation |
| Feb. 5 |
IHSAA Sectional Prelims |
I was extremely pleased
with our ladies last night. Our medley relay came away with a third place
seed in the finals, and our 4x100 free relay is seeded 5th.
Individually we saw many great swims last night. Those who are coming back
to the finals on Saturday are Lexi Laird in the 100-backstroke (6th)
and Katie Hingst in the 100-breaststroke. In the consolations, we have
Jenna Gilbert in the 100-fly (10th), Hingst in the 200 IM (7th)
and Laird in the 100-free (12th).
We had several other outstanding performances last night, including Morgan
Brantley in the 100-fly, Abby Rolland in the 500-free, and Margaret Booher
in the 200 IM.
Overall, I was very
pleased with our girl’s performances. We have to have our “A” game on
Saturday to hold onto our relay seeds. Our individual swimmers have awesome
opportunities on Saturday as well. – Coach Walters |
| Feb. 7 |
IHSAA Sectional Finals |
Katie Hingst finished seventh in the 200 I.M. and sixth in the 100
Breaststroke. Lexi Laird finished fifth in the 100 Backstroke and tenth in
the 100 Free. Jenna Gilbert was tenth in the 100 Butterfly. The 200 Medley
Relay was third and the 400 Free Relay was fifth. Kokomo finished in fifth
place with 91 points. Carmel won the competition with 410 points.
In diving competition, Brittany Gauger finished fourth and qualified for
Tuesday's diving regional. Rachel Pace finished in ninth place.
See complete results here. |
| Feb. 10 |
IHSAA Diving Regional @ Fishers High School |
Brittany Gauger finished in seventh place with 360.85
points. Megan Potee of Noblesville High School finished in first place with
434.15 points. The top eight divers advance to state competition next
weekend. |
| Feb. 13-14 |
IHSAA State Finals |
Bittany Gauger finished 17th in 1-meter diving competition.
Congratulations, Brittany! |
