2022 VHSL Class 2 Swimming & Diving Championship (Boys Meet)
- February 17th, 2022
- SwimRVA, Richmond, VA
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Team Standings (Top 5)
- Radford High School – 311
- Bruton High School Panthers – 204
- Virginia High School Bearcats – 182
- Marion Senior High School – 161
- Strasburg High School – 146
Radford High School posted a dominant team win at the VHSL Class 2 Boys Swimming & Diving Championships on February 17th, beating out runner-up Bruton by over 100 points. Radford picked off two of the three relays and won four individual events en route to the team title.
They kicked things off with a decisive 10-second victory in the 200 medley relay. Trent Hollandsworth (25.78), Graham Minarik (29.79), Hampton Wohlford (25.03), and Stone Fisher (22.21) team up for a 1:42.81, finishing roughly 20 yards ahead of the rest of the field.
Trent Hollandsworth, just a freshman, would go on to win the 200 IM in a tight race with Altavista Combined School senior Kris Schultz. Schultz took an early lead, splitting 24.88 on fly, compared to Hallandsworth’s 25.14. Hollandsworth then took the lead on backstroke, splitting 29.76 to Schultz’s 30.57. Schultz then cut into the lead on breaststroke, out-splitting Hollandsworth by 0.29 seconds, before Hollandsworth began to pull away on freestyle. Hollandsworth won the race in 1:57.10, with Schultz right behind in 1:57.59.
Schultz went on to win the 500 free later in the meet, finishing in 4:53.13. He won the race by 11 seconds, picking up Altavista Combined School’s only title of the meet.
Hampton Wohlford would go on from the medley relay to win the 100 fly, swimming a 54.34. Virginia High School’s John David Moser took an early lead on the first 50, but Wohlford starting pulling away on the back half of the race, getting his hands on the wall half a second ahead of Moser.
Stone Fisher went on to take the title in the 50 free following the medley relay, clocking a 21.90. Radford also picked up a win in diving, where Ben Shull racked up 365.10 to win by 100 points. Notably, there were only 3 divers in the meet, and Radford had 2 of them.
The quartet of Hollandsworth, Minarik, Wohlford, and Fisher would go on to team up for a win in the 200 free relay as well. Wohlford led off in 23.00, and Minarik went 2nd in 24.34. Unfortunately, the splits on the final two laps got messed up, but Hollandsworth and Fisher combined for a 44.79 on the final 100. The team finished in 1:32.13, winning by 2 seconds.
East Rockingham senior William St. John broke the only VHSL Class Record of the meet, taking the 100 breast in 59.60. It was an incredibly tight race between St. John and Hollandsworth, who would finish 2nd in 59.71. Both boys were well under the previous VHSL Class 2 Record of 1:00.84, which has stood since 2018. Hollandsworth was out faster, swimming a 28.11 on the first 50 to St. John’s 28.55, but St. John had the upper hand on the back half, edging out the victory.
Marion Senior HS senior Caleb Patton took the 100 back in 54.39, winning by almost 2 seconds. Patton posted the fastest split in the field on both 50s of the race, swimming a 26.39 on the first 50, and 28.00 on the 2nd 50.
Appomattox sophomore Ian Andresen won the 100 free decisively, clocking a 48.61. Andresen was the only swimmer in the field under 50 seconds in the event.
Bruton High School would take the remaining relay, the 400 free. Riley Thompson (51.08), Caleb Hall (53.32), Isaiah Bennett (58.92), and Zach Hubbard (50.68) combined for a 3:34.00, winning the race by 8 seconds.
Thompson was dominant in the 200 free, winning the event in 1:49.78. He opened up a lead on the first 100 of the race, but where he really took over against the rest of the field on the back half of the race.