What a great day to be an Eagle! Last night GRC took on a tri-meet with Unity Christian and Holland Christian. The 200-medley relay kicked off the night with a win by out-touching HC at the last second. Harkness/Carpenter/Hoekstra/Mills locked in at a 1:57.44 against their 1:57.50. The B relay of Vance/Enders/Harkness/Herman rallied up as well touching in 4th with a 2:07.72. Freshman Juliana Mills took second in the 200 free with a 2:12.86!  GRC kept the train moving with a 1-5-6-7 finish in the 200 IM. Emily Hoekstra pulled ahead in the breaststroke to fight off the Maroons and take a win. A tie for third place happened in the 50 free between a Holland swimmer and Veda Harkness leaving the meet pretty even closing out the first half. 

We had a full diving well as 8 of our girls competed last night! Emily Setlock and Natalie Wickstrom took 1st and 2nd place earning two regional points each! Other highlights include Lily McGowan earning one regional point and Emmarie VanOss competing in her first 6 dive meet! 

Grace Carpenter took her ticket to state in the 100 fly to kick off individual events while taking second followed by Mills taking third! A big moment for the night was Junior Swimmer Piper Sadowski breaking 6 minutes in her 500 free. She took 3rd in the event and touched the wall at a 5:59.17! The final stretch of the meet was on with the Eagles taking 1st in the 200-free relay. Carpenter/Mills/Hoekstra/Harkness out touched HC one more time taking a win with a 1:44.49  Hoekstra topped off the individual events with another fight for the finish race out touching HC with a 1:10.35 to their 1:10.66 in the 100 breast. 

GRC beat Unity Christian and ended the night in a tie against Holland Christian — a huge moment for our program! We see HC again at our midseason meet on October 1. The team heads down to Hamilton Thursday for another day of racing.