BARBOURVILLE — The North Laurel swim team turned in a fantastic showing during this past weekend’s 9th Region Swimming Championships.
North Laurel placed fifth overall (boys/girls teams combined) out of 19 teams while the girls turned in a fifth place effort, and the boys’ team finished sixth.
“Words can not describe how proud I am of this team,” North Laurel coach Amber Murray said. “We had many PRs, five school records broken, and three individuals to qualify for State in their individual events. Every single person that attended the meet, swam a new personal best. That itself is amazing.”
Kyra Lewis (100 Breaststroke), Avery Murray (50 Freestyle), and Cameron Wagovich (100 Breaststroke) are the three state qualifiers for North Laurel. Murray was also named to the All-Region team.
9th Region Championships
North Laurel Results
State Qualifiers:
Kyra Lewis (100 Breaststroke)
Avery Murray (50 Freestyle)
Cameron Wagovich (100 Breaststroke)
New School Records:
2025 School Records Broken:
Girls 50 Free (25.42): Avery Murray
Girls 100 Free (57.66): Avery Murray
Girls 200 Free (2:17.13): Kyra Lewis
Girls 100 Breast (1:14.35): Kyra Lewis
Boys 400 Free Relay (4:12.42): Luke Kilbourne, Boston Rupard, Brody Asher, Cameron Wagovich
All-Region Team: Avery Murray
Top Swims
Girls 200 Medley Relay Team-3rd Place, barely missing a chance to state by 0.06 of a second. (Back-Trinity Radford, Breast- Kyra Lewis, Butterfly-Jamalynn Harris, Freestyle-Avery Murray)
Boys 200 Medley Relay Team-9th Place. (Back-Patrick Garrison, Breast-Boston Rupard, Butterfly-Cameron Wagovich, Freestyle-Luke Kilbourne)
Girls 200 Freestyle: Kyra Lewis (4th Place out of 24)
Boys 200 Freestyle: Boston Rupard (8th Place out of 19)
Girls 200 IM: Jamalynn Harris (11th Place) & Annabelle Welch (13th Place)
Boys 200 IM: Cameron Wagovich (6th Place)
Girls 50 Freestyle: Avery Murray (2nd Place out of 50 missing 1st place by only 0.1 of a second) & Trinity Radford (26th Place out of 50)
Boys 50 Freestyle: Luke Kilbourne (7th Place out of 52) & Brody Asher (14th Place out of 52)
Girls 100 Butterfly: Jamalynn Harris (8th Place out of 17)
Girls 100 Freestyle: Avery Murray (3rd Place out of 44) & Ava Franson (17th Place out of 44)
Boys 100 Freestyle: Luke Kilbourne (6th Place out of 47) & Brody Asher (21st Place out of 47)
Girls 100 Backstroke: Trinity Radford (16th Place out of 38), Caroline Welch (27th Place out of 38), and Jaedyn Gilbert (29th out of 38)
Boys 100 Backstroke: Boston Rupard (12th Place out of 27) & Patrick Garrison (19th Place out of 27)
Girls 100 Breaststroke: Kyra Lewis (2nd Place out of 36) and Annabelle Welch (5th out of 36)
Boys 100 Breaststroke: Cameron Wagovich (2nd Place out of 18)
Girls 400 Freestyle Relay Team-3rd Place (Avery Murray, Jamalynn Harris, Ava Franson, Kyra Lewis)
Boys 400 Freestyle Relay Team-5th Place (Luke Kilbourne, Boston Rupard, Brody Asher, Cameron Wagovich)
Biggest Time Drops:
Kyra Lewis (200 Free): -5.55 seconds
Boston Rupard (200 Free): -9.17 seconds
Jamalynn Harris (200 IM): -5.22 seconds
Annabelle Welch (200 IM): -7.50 seconds
Jamalynn Harris (100 Butterfly): -5.28 seconds
Jaedyn Gilbert (100 Freestyle): -10.39 seconds
Luke Kilbourne (100 Freestyle): -3.37 seconds
Caden Feltner (100 Freestyle): -14.38 seconds
Trinity Radford (100 Backstroke): -3.00 seconds
Caroline Welch (100 Backstroke): -6.96 seconds
Jaedyn Gilbert (100 Backstroke): -6.25 seconds
Annabelle Adams (100 Backstroke): -9.50 seconds
Cash Harrell (100 Backstroke): -17.91 seconds
Annabelle Welch (100 Breaststroke): -5.28 seconds
Kayla Smith (100 Breaststroke): -35.34 seconds
