MB Swimmers place at Senior County Championship Meet

Mountain Brook swimmers competed as part of the 22 Jefferson and Shelby County swim teams in the Senior County meet. The meet is eligible to swimmers who have met qualifying times.  

For the first time, the Senior County Championship Meet was held at the Birmingham CrossPlex, which is a 750,000 square foot, multi-purpose facility that opened in 2011.

Mountain Brook swimmers had several high point award winners from many area teams and clubs. These awards were given to the eight best overall swimmers in each of the age groups based upon points earned by their place finishes.

Cal and Liz Elder, who grew up swimming in Mountain Brook, enjoyed seeing their three daughters compete and two won their divisions: 6 and Under Girls (Ren Elder) and 9-10 Girls (Patsy Elder).

In the 6 and under girls’ division, Ren Elder of Hoover Blue Thunder (HBT) finished as high-point winner and set a new meet record for 25 freestyle with a time of 17.27.  Kate Peterson of Mountain Brook Club (MBC) was fifth overall. For the 6 and under boys’ division, Phillip Cook of Birmingham Country Club (BCC) was the high point runner-up, while William Grier McDuffie of MBC finished third, Andrew Naftek of the MBC was fourth, and Billy Hoyt (MBC) finished in seventh place overall.

  In the 7-8 year old girls’ division, Sarah Petznick (BCC) was the high point winner. Lucy Redden (BCC) finished second in overall points, while Grace Knight (MBC) was the fifth place finisher.  Rosemary Cooper (BCC) was the sixth place finisher. For the 7-8 year old boys’ division, Grayson Long of Pine Tree Piranhas (PTP) took the fourth place finish overall.

 In 9-10 girls, Patsy Elder (HBT) was the high point winner, with  Ann Vandevelde (BCC) as runner-up. Courtney Clark (BCC) finished seventh overall, and  Liz Vandevelde (BCC) rounded out the top eight girls. For the 9-10 boys, Henry Phillips (MBC) was the fifth place finisher.

For the 11-12 boys, Gaston Petznick (BCC) finished eighth overall. Hannah Elliott (BCC) was sixth for 13-14 girls while Jack Tucker of Vestavia Country Club (VCC) was fifth for 13-14 boys.

In the 15-18 division, Mary Clay Carr of BCC was the high point winner.  Tommy Thetford (BCC) finished fifth overall, and Andrew Davis (BCC) was seventh overall for the 15-18 boys.

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