Dragon Swimming Hits The Pool As Dragon Winter Teams Continue Conference Play
Results from the week of January 11
VARSITY SWIMMING
1/16 at HAPPI (Houston Area Private and Parochial Invitational)
Girls 6th place • Boys 3rd place
Coach Sara Bany: Cooper swimmers were back in the water on Jan. 16 with the first championship meet of the season, the Houston Area Private and Parochial Invitational, known as the HAPPI City Championship meet. Cooper hosted 13 girls teams and 11 boys teams from around the Houston area at the University of Houston. The girls finished sixth overall and the boys finished third overall.
Leading our efforts in the pool, Caitlin Lanigan swept her events winning both the 50 Free with a season-best time of 24.90 and the 100 Free with another season-best time of 54.57. Other season-best times included Peyton Boone (17th in the 100 Free and 18th in the 200 Free), Victoria Davila (15th in the 100 Free), Katia Guerrero (15th in the 50 Free, 9th in the 100 Fly), Noelle Harris (19th in the 100 Free and 21st in the 100 Breast), Katie Kovin (15th in the 200 IM, 10th in the 500 Free) and Megan Werner (26th in the 50 Free, 18th in the 100 Free).
In the boys' meet, Victor Guerrero and Henry Shea led the way, both winning an event. Guerrero won the 100 Fly with a time of 53.31 and came in third in the 200 Free with a time of 1:51.15. Shea won 100 Free with a season-best time of 50.38 and finished fourth in the 100 Back with another season-best time of 55.38. Zhi-Hahn See finished right behind Shea in the 100 Free with a time of 53.00 just beating the third-place swimmer by 0.03 of a second – a very exciting race to the finish! See also swam a best time in the 50 Free finishing in 4th place. Another top result was the 200 Free relay team of Guerrero, See, Zac Winton and Shea, who just beat out Kinkaid for the relay victory. Seniors Nicholas Harris and Winton finished the 50 Free 15th and 16th respectively, both posting best times this season. Winton also finished 10th in the 100 Free while Harris finished 15th in the 100 Breaststroke. Freshmen Alexander Harris, Grey Mendenhall and Kevin Werner also had season-best swims. A. Harris finished 13th in the 100 back and 16th in the 200 IM, Mendenhall finished 10th in the 200 Free and 9th in the 500 free, and Werner finished 11th in the 100 Fly and 15th in the 200 Free.
All in all, it was a great day of fast swims while we gear up for our last few meets of the season. We have a couple more weeks of hard work in the water before we see how fast our team will go this year, but the results from the HAPPI meet are encouraging and motivating!
Next up for Dragon Swimming
Jan. 30 at Swim meet
VARSITY GIRLS BASKETBALL
1/12 at Duchesne Academy* • 80-38 W
1/15 at St. Stephen’s* • 77-30 W
Coach B.J. Feuerhelm: The girls showed some good focus this week and secured two solid conference road wins. We will look to keep the momentum going as we prepare for Awty this week. There is still a lot of work to do, but I really like the way the girls continue to show up and work hard to improve.
Season Record • 11-1 Conference record • 3-0
Next up for Dragon Girls Basketball:
Jan. 22 vs. Awty*, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 22 vs. Awty*, 5:30 p.m.
VARSITY BOYS BASKETBALL
1/15 vs St. Stephen’s* • 83-47 L
Coach Matthew Wilson: The Dragons played a tough St. Stephen’s team in Austin this past week. Our team has this week off as a game has been canceled and another postponed. We plan to take advantage of this time as we prepare for our next SPC conference game.
Next up for Dragon Boys Basketball:
Jan. 26 at Kinkaid*, 7 p.m.
Jan. 26 at Kinkaid*, 7 p.m.
VARSITY GIRLS SOCCER
1/15 vs St. Stephen’s* • 3-2 L
Goals by Kat Staebel and Mikaela Camarata
Coach Amber Clevenger: Tonight’s game against St. Stephen’s was a heartbreaker as we lost in the final minutes of the game. The girls looked very promising and it was good to see them combining to score. Up next we are at Kinkaid on Wednesday at 7 pm and then we have a rematch game against Awty and that’s a big game for us, so we are looking forward one game at a time.
Next up for Dragon Girls Soccer:
Jan. 20 at Kinkaid*, 7 p.m.
Jan. 22 vs. Awty*, 5 p.m.
VARSITY BOYS SOCCER
1/15 vs St. Stephen’s* • 2-0 W
Goals by Ali Zidan and Will Young
Coach Bryan Sherman: It was good to get a win to start SPC play. We have to get better to accomplish what we want to accomplish this season.
Next up for Dragon Boys Soccer:
Jan. 19 at HCYA, 7 p.m.
Jan. 22 vs. Awty*, 7 p.m.
*conference
The John Cooper School
From Curiosity to Wisdom
The John Cooper School is an independent, non-sectarian, co-educational, college preparatory day school. Our mission is to provide a challenging education in a caring environment to a diverse group of select students, enabling them to become critical and creative thinkers, effective communicators, responsible citizens and leaders, and lifelong learners.
The John Cooper School seeks to attract qualified individuals of diverse backgrounds to its faculty, staff, and student body. The School does not discriminate against any individual in admissions, educational programs, personnel policies, general practices, or employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, physical disability, or age.
The John Cooper School seeks to attract qualified individuals of diverse backgrounds to its faculty, staff, and student body. The School does not discriminate against any individual in admissions, educational programs, personnel policies, general practices, or employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, physical disability, or age.
© 2019 The John Cooper School. All Rights Reserved.