The WHS boys had an excellent meet at Canton, where they were state runnerup for the third straight year. The 400 free relay team of Owen Dunbar, Pat Dierker, AJ Burt, and Eric Lethander placed first at prelims and dropped 2.5 seconds in the finals, but finished second to University. Their time of 3:08.77 beat an eight year old WHS record. The 200 free relay team finished 3rd and were very close to another 8 year old WHS record. Pat Dierker (6th 100 free), Owen Dunbar (7th 100 free), AJ Burt (7th 200 free, 7th breast), and Eric Lethander (8th fly, 5th IM) all swam well in prelims and made it to the Championship finals. Jonathan Rutter had an exceptional meet in his 1st trip to Canton as a freshman, finishing 9th in breast and 13th in IM. A great meet by all.

Team scores follow.

1

Hunting Valley University

377

2

Cincinnati Wyoming

191

3

Dayton Oakwood

171

4

Lima Shawnee

139

5

Chagrin Falls

137

6

Gahanna Columbus Academy

137

7

Cincinnati Mariemont

95

8

Napoleon

93

9

Gates Mills Hawken

83

10

Springfield Catholic Central

74

11

Columbus Bishop Hartley

66

12

Canal Winchester

48

13

Granville

47

14

Chagrin Falls Kenston

46

15

Cincinnati Indian Hill

46

16

Columbus St. Francis Desales

37

17

Wilmington

37

18

Cincinnati Madeira

35

 

Summary of WHS Boys 2011 Sectional, District, and State Performances
red border indicates new WHS record
Event Name Sectionals District State State Prelims State Finals
    Seed Time Actual time Dist Time Seed Place Act Place Seed Time Place Time place
50 free Owen Dunbar 22.09 22.61 21.98 3 2 12 22.20 12 22.16 10
100 free Pat Dierker 48.18 49.15 47.72 1 2 5 47.85 5 48.11 6
100 free Owen Dunbar 47.57 49.34 47.38 2 1 4 47.90 7 48.23 7
200 free AJ Burt 01:45.94 01:47.11 01:44.77 2 4 8 01:44.73 8 01:44.99 7
200 free Pat Dierker 01:46.52 01:48.36 01:44.44 5 3 7 01:45.43 9 01:45.12 10
Breast AJ Burt 00:58.81 01:01.81 01:00.95 3 3 10 00:59.95 7 01:00.11 7
Breast Jonathan Rutter 01:02.19 01:01.31 01:00.39 2 2 8 01:00.66 9 01:00.90 9
Fly Eric Lethander 00:51.77 00:52.73 00:51.46 3 3 6 00:51.36 7 00:51.48 8
Fly Paul Hoffman 00:54.04 00:58.60 00:55.04 7 7 23 00:54.83 20    
IM Eric Lethander 01:58.87 01:59.18 01:57.90 3 4 7 01:56.05 5 01:56.39 5
IM Jonathan Rutter 02:06.40 02:03.29 02:01.67 4 6 12 02:01.38 11 02:01.95 13
200 MR E Lethander#, Rutter, Hoffman, Rominger 01:47.82 01:45.02 01:40.20 5 2 5 01:39.26 3 01:41.62 7
200 FR Dunbar, Dierker, Rominger*, A Burt 01:28.45 01:31.94 01:28.23 1 1 4 01:28.81 5 01:26.46 3
400 FR Dunbar, Dierker, A Burt, E Lethander 03:12.40 03:24.00 03:12.12 1 1 1 03:11.31 1 03:08.77 2
# John Dreyer swam instead of Lethander in state finals
*Lethander swam instead of Rominger in state finals
WHS Boys State Scoring
Eric Lethander 8th fly, 5th IM, 3rd 200 FR, 2nd 400 FR 41.5
AJ Burt 7th 200 free, 7th breast, 3rd 200 FR, 2nd 400 FR 40.5
Pat Dierker 6th 100 free, 10th 200 free, 3rd 200 FR, 2nd 400 FR 36.5
Owen Dunbar 10th 50 free, 7th 100 free, 3rd 200 FR, 2nd 400 FR 35.5
Jonathan Rutter 9th breast, 13th IM, 7th 200 MR 19
Sam Rominger 7th 200 MR, 6
Paul Hoffman 7th 200 MR 6
John Dreyer 7th 200 MR 6
Total 191