States Swimming & Diving

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Latrobe sent their top swimmer and diver Rylee Jackson (right) and Taylor Miller (left) to Bucknell University for States on Wednesday the 14th and Thursday the 15th of March. Rylee, a three time states attendee, went into the event seeded fourth for the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 23.4 seconds. She placed 7th overall, with a time of 23.64 in the preliminary round and 23.86 in the final round. Rylee also swam the 100 yard freestyle with a seed time of 51.59 seconds and placed 17th with a 52.37 second time in the preliminary round, but she was ineligible to swim in finals. Taylor Miller attended States alongside Rylee, where she scored a 284.75 in the semi-finals, Thursday morning. Her score qualified her for finals that evening. During finals, Taylor placed 10th out of 24 divers with eleven dives performed and she scored a total of 393.4.