Tridents take part in Jeff City Pentathlon

Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Submitted photo/ Competing swimmers are presented trophies.

The Osage Prairie YMCA Tridents competed at the Jefferson City Pentathlon, Jan. 3.

Hosted by the Jefferson City Area YMCA Barracudas, the Saturday morning seven-hour event featured 14 YMCA teams and 241 swimmers from three St. Louis districts (East, Central, and West). Nevada is part of the west, one of 30 YMCAs in the district.



Competing teams included Boonville, Carthage,
Edwardsville, Ill.,
Fulton,
Hannibal,
 Jefferson City,
Lebanon, Mexico,Monett, Nevada,
O'Fallon,
St. Charles, St. Louis, and
Washington.

Submitted photo/ Nevada's Cody Leung with Carthage CatTracks swimmers Ezekiel Ramirez, Cameron Sturgell, and Carson Sturgell.


Each swimmer must swim five individual events to compete for the pentathlon awards, but is not required to do so for general competition.

Pentathlon scoring utilizes an accumulation of race times ---- add all five race times and the place was determined by the fastest total time.

The top three pentathlon trophies were given to a male and female in each age group.



Nevada's Cody Leung was invited to be on an exhibition relay with a group of Carthage swimmers, with their team finished first out of four.



The Osage Prairie YMCA Tridents swim team is coached by Abel Hagan, and assisted by Jesse Claypool.

The winter season began practice Jan. 6, with the season running through March 12. Registration is underway. Any interested swimmers are welcome. The next meet is Jan. 24 at Seymour.

For Nevada, Leung placed in the male 9-10 age division, 50-yard fly (second), 50-yard back (fifth), 50-yard breast stroke (second), 50-yard freestyle (eighth), and 100-yard IM (third).

That earned him third place in his division for the trophy awards.

In the relay event exhibition, Leung joined the Carthage Cat Tracks to finish first out of four in the male 10 and under division of the 200-yard medley relay (Cameron Sturgell, Carson Sturgell, Ezekiel Carson).

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