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Iowa Girls State Swimming: Prelims In The Books

Iowa girls high school state swimming finals for all events will take place Friday

Dana Becker

Waukee Northwest's Hayden Bailey swims the 400-yard freestyle relay during the Iowa high school girls state swim meet at Marshalltown YMCA on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Marshalltown.
Waukee Northwest's Hayden Bailey swims the 400-yard freestyle relay during the Iowa high school girls state swim meet at Marshalltown YMCA on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Marshalltown. / Lily Smith/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The prelims of the Iowa girls high school state swimming championships took place on Thursday from the campus of the University of Iowa.

For the state championships, qualifiers can earn bids throughout the season by hitting automatic standard times. From there, the fields are filled at regionals, with prelims taking place.

Qualifiers advance to Friday’s finals in both an A bracket and a B bracket, with the A bracket consisting of the Top 8 times from the prelim races. The B bracket takes the next eight to compete against one another.

Big Prelim Day For Waukee Northwest's Hayden Bailey

Waukee Northwest sensation Hayden Bailey earned two top times in the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. She posted an All-American consideration time in the 100 butterfly, as did No. 2 seed Kimber Corwin from Dowling Catholic.

Corwin recorded the fastest 200 individual medley.

Charlee DeJong of West Des Moines Valley also posted two No. 1 seed times out of the prelims, doing so in the 50 free and the 100 free.

Two Earn All-American Consideration in The Pool

Ellie McCorkle of Ames earned an All-American consideration in the 500 freestyle with the fastest prelim time along with Natalie Patee from Sioux City West.

McCorkle’s teammate, Lily Van Der Linden, clocked the fastest 200 free while Lucy Parson of Waterloo West had the quickest 100 breaststroke time.

Camryn Russell of Grinnell scored the first state title of the meet, successfully defending her diving championship.

Complete Friday Meet Program, Prelim Results, Live Stream Link

A meet program for the finals on Friday can be found on the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union website. Complete prelim results can be found here, along with a live stream link to the swimming action.

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Dana Becker
DANA BECKER

Dana Becker has been a sports writer in Iowa since 2000, writing for The Fort Dodge Messenger, Mason City Globe-Gazette, Cedar Rapids Gazette and others. Dana resides in northcentral Iowa and started as a writer with SB Live Sports in 2022 focused on the state of Iowa. Along with providing coverage of football and wrestling, Dana also spotlights cross country, swimming, basketball, track and field, soccer, tennis, golf, baseball and softball. He began writing for High School on SI in 2023.

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