This weekend the Caro Tigers attended the 2024 Independent Swim Conference Swim and Dive Championship.  The two day competition was held at the SVSU Gerstacker Regional Aquatic Center.  At prelims Friday night the Tigers main goal was to swim well for a good seed position going into finals Saturday, but delivered much more.  The 200 Freestyle started the evening with all 3 Tigers placing top 8, swimming new personal records, and Matt Booms setting a new school record of 1:58.02.  This was just the start of new records being set for the night. Wyatt Sutton followed by setting a new record in the 100 Butterfly with a time of :58.71.  Then Matt Booms set his second record for the night in the 500 Freestyle with a time of 5:24.81. Finally Wyatt Sutton finished the night by setting a new 100 Backstroke  school record with a time of :56.27.  The night was a huge success with all the Tigers setting new personal records and moving onto finals.   On Saturday at finals the relay teams competed and like the night before the Tiger relays also swam excellent setting new PR’s. Taking 2nd in the 200 Medley relay, 200 Freestyles relay, and the 400 freestyle relay. Wyatt Sutton lowered his 100 fly record to a 58.44 and Matt Booms lowered his 500 freestyle record to a 5:23.13. Overall the Tigers swam great and held their seated position, giving them a third place overall finish.  “Finishing 3rd in the conference is no easy task with just 7 swimmers.  My hat goes off to the rookies Cooper, Cameron, Charlie, Logan, for carrying the team.  Also to our veteran swimmers Matt, Wyatt, and Cas for leading the way.” - Coach Dave

Final Score:  

1 John Glenn High School 486

2 Essexville Garber 421

3 Caro 275

4 Chesaning 219

5 Oscoda 190

6 Alma 185

7 Ogemaw Heights 176

8 Standish-Sterling Central 136

9 Alpena 124

Final results:

200 Medley Relay - 2nd 1:52.26 (Booms,Guigar,Sutton,Wasik) 

200 Freestyle - 3rd 1:58.77 Matt Booms, 6th 2:09.03 Cas Wasik, 8th 2:13.20 Logan Findlay

200 IM -  8th 2:33.92 Charlie Guigar

50 Freestyle - 7th :25.61 Cooper Wasik, 10th :25.97 Logan Findlay, 12th :26.64 Cameron Ransford

100 Butterfly - 2nd :58.44 Wyatt Sutton

100 Freestyle - 7th :57.13 Cooper Wasik, 11th :59.46 Cameron Ransford

500 Freestyle - 2nd 5:23.13 Matt Booms, 6th 6:15.36 Cas Wasik

200 Free Relay - 2nd 1:44.66 (Guigar,Findlay,(Cas)Wasik,Ransford)

100 Backstroke - 1st :56.28 Wyatt Sutton

100 Breaststroke - 6th 1:15.41 Charlie Guigar

400 Free Relay - 2nd 3:41.28 ((Cas)Wasik,Wasik,Sutton,Booms)