WAUKESHA, Wis. – Middleton captured the Division 1 team title at the 2024 State Girls Swimming & Diving Championships at the Waukesha South High School Natatorium Saturday.
The Cardinals compiled 334 points to win the team championship for the second year in a row and for the fifth time in the program’s history. Verona finished a distant second with 211 points, and Arrowhead placed third with a score of 200.5.
Middleton won all three relays to pave the way to the title. Tee Martin, Rian Jost, Brynn Sundell and Sulia Miller swam to the crown in the 200-yard medley relay in a time of 1:42.72. The 200 freestyle relay team consisting of Miller, Audrey Alexander, Abigail Frommelt and Jane Garlock won gold with a time of 1:33.90, and the 400 freestyle quartet, including Abigail Frommelt, Isabell Frommelt, Garlock and Sundell won the final race of the meet in a time of 3:26.24.
The individual events featured one repeat champion and three multiple-event champions. Ella Antoniewski of Waukesha South/Mukwonago won her third titles in a pair of events. She posted a time of 1:48.38 to win the 200 freestyle for the third year in a row. She also added a third gold medal in the 500 freestyle, completing the distance race in a time of 4:50.81.
Julia Saxman of Germantown won a pair of events. She posted a time of 2:01.54 to win the 200 individual medley and improve on last season’s 15th-place final. She also won the 100 butterfly with a time of 53.34, which is the sixth-fastest time recorded in the event in Division 1 State meet history. The three-time qualifier in the event placed fourth last year and fifth in 2022.
Payton Flowers of DeForest captured the title in the sprint freestyles. She won the 50 freestyle with a time of 22.59, which ranks fourth-fastest in meet history, after placing seventh in the event a year ago. Flowers also won the 100 freestyle with at time 49.34, which is also the fourth-swiftest time in Division 1 in the history of the State meet, following a seventh-place finish last season.
Ana Flanagan of Appleton North, a four-time qualifier in the 100 breaststroke, won the event in a time of 1:03.20 after placing fourth last year, 12th in 2022 and eighth in 2021. Olivia Sina of Oregon earned the title in the 100 backstroke with a time of 54.53 after placing third in the event last season.
Kendall Rummel of Divine Savior Holy Angels won the diving competition with a score of 477.65 following a sixth-place finish last season.
Complete Final Results