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LeDonne wraps up season with
state swim meet
By Jeffrey
Pickette
Citizen Staff
For the second
consecutive season, Canton High junior swimmer Chris LeDonne
represented the Bulldogs at the
Division 2 Swimming and Diving State Championship meet.
LeDonne, who last year swam in
the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyle events, competed in the
100-yard butterfly at last Saturday’s meet, finishing 25th
out of 27 swimmers with a time of 1:00.15.
“I know that Chris definitely
feels he should have been able to swim faster,” assistant coach
Chris Murtagh said.
Still, Murtagh was pleased with
LeDonne’s effort, considering him a “role model” and
“trend-setter” for the CHS boys’ swim team.
“These are the best swimmers in
Division 2 throughout the whole state,” Murtagh said. “So, just
qualifying [and] being able to compete at that level is
incredible.”
Murtagh said LeDonne was plagued
with a shoulder injury this season, yet he still managed to
perform at a top-level. A versatile swimmer, LeDonne qualified
for the Central/South Sectional Swimming and Diving
Championships in five different events, choosing to swim in two
at the February 14 meet.
“The fact that
he qualified for so many events speaks to the quality of swimmer
he is,” head coach Lori Mooney wrote in an e-mail to the
Citizen.
“We feel that
when he gets back to full strength for next season he will be
having plenty of success and will place in both sectionals and
states far past what he did this year,” Mooney continued. “Chris
is a natural talent. He has worked hard but the strokes come
easily to him. He has great form and is very coachable. He has
the strength and natural speed that not everyone has.”
February 25, 2010
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