Once again this year, the Classic was a large (120 teams, 3050 swimmers) important meet that is a precursor to, and helps measure progress and potential for, the State meet. Prelims were held sat and sun morning at 8 different locations with the top 16 swimmers overall returning at night for the finals at Keating Natatorium. The boys placed 8th overall in spite of the fact that the competition included Div I as well as Div II teams. Their score of 155.5 points was tops for D II teams. Eric Lethander and Jonathan Rutter had exceptional meets. They both qualified to the finals in all four individual events in which they were entered and each scored 66 points. Pat Dierker finished 15th in the 50 free and was second alternate in the 100 free. All four relays qualified to the finals. Great job Cowboys.
The Girls 200 and 400 free relays qualified to the finals. Both relays were composed of Ellie Lebuhn, Sarah Gibbons, Caroline Duke, and Rachel Theiler. The 200 free relay finished 13th while the 400 finished 15th. The girls scored 12 points and finished 32nd. Keep in mind that approximately 2/3 of the teams scored no points at all.
A summary of the finalists and their scores follows.
| Girls | Boys | |||||||||||
| year | place | score | place | score | ||||||||
| 2010 | 11th | 100 | 3rd | 262 | ||||||||
| 2011 | 9th | 117 | 3rd | 237 | ||||||||
| 2012 | 32nd | 12 | 8th | 155.5 | ||||||||
| Qualifiers - Girls | ||||||||||||
| event | seed | qual | finals | |||||||||
| Name | time | time | place | time | place | points | ||||||
| Lebuhn, S Gibbons, Duke, Theiler | 200 FR | 01:51.05 | 01:46.25 | 14th | 01:45.20 | 13th | 8 | |||||
| 400 FR | 03:46.07 | 03:53.77 | 15th | 03:51.78 | 15th | 4 | ||||||
| total | 12 | |||||||||||
| Qualifiers - Boys | ||||||||||||
| Pat Dierker | 50 free | 00:22.23 | 00:22.78 | 15th | 00:22.98 | Tied 15th | 1.5 | |||||
| Eric Lethander | 100 free | 00:47.74 | 00:48.25 | 1st | 00:47.31 | 2nd | 17 | |||||
| Eric Lethander | 200 free | 01:43.47 | 01:46.74 | 9th | 01:44.84 | 9th | 9 | |||||
| Jonathan Rutter | 100 breast | 00:58.99 | 01:00.49 | 4th | 01:00.26 | 3rd | 16 | |||||
| Jonathan Rutter | 200 breast | 02:06.95 | 02:10.41 | 2nd | 02:07.80 | 2nd | 17 | |||||
| Eric Lethander | 100 fly | 00:50.70 | 00:53.19 | 4th | 00:52.00 | 4th | 15 | |||||
| Eric Lethander | 200 fly | 01:54.79 | 01:59.28 | 8th | 01:58.05 | 6th | 13 | |||||
| Jonathan Rutter | 200 IM | 01:58.00 | 2:0059 | 10th | 01:57.94 | 10th | 7 | |||||
| Jonathan Rutter | 400 IM | 04:12.82 | 04:12.82 | 10th | 04:10.50 | 5th | 14 | |||||
| Lethander,Rutter, S Rominger, Dierker | 200 FR | 01:30.11 | 01:31.41 | 10th | 01:30.32 | 10th | 14 | |||||
| Lethander, Rutter, S Rominger, Dierker | 400 FR | 03:14.66 | 03:22.49 | 9th | 03:16.74 | 9th | 18 | |||||
| Lethander, Rutter, Chou, Dierker | 200 MR | 01:42.78 | 01:42.74 | 9th | DQ | |||||||
| Lethander, Rutter, Chou, Dierker | 400 MR | 03:35.09 | 03:45.97 | 11th | 03:39.92 | 10th | 14 | |||||
| Total | 155.5 | |||||||||||
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| Individual Points - Boys | Individual Points - Girls | |||||||||||
| Eric Lethander | 66 | Ellie Lebuhn | 3 | |||||||||
| Jonathan Ritter | 66 | Rachael Theiler | 3 | |||||||||
| Pat Dierker | 13 | Sarah Gibbons | 3 | |||||||||
| Sam Rominger | 8 | Caroline Duke | 3 | |||||||||
| Max Chou | 3.5 | |||||||||||
| total | 155.5 | Total | 12 | |||||||||