Windermere swimming brings home individual, relay state titles

The Windermere High boys and girls swimming and diving teams both had impressive showings at the Class 4A state championship meet. Both teams finished as state championship runners-up and brought home a total of seven individual or relay state championships. 

In the girls meet, the Wolverines finished with 311 total points across the meet’s 12 events and fell to state champions Riverview Sarasota High; the Rams finished with 378 points. West Orange High finished fourth overall with 117 points. Windermere’s 311 points came on the back of four first-place finishes, two silvers and one bronze.

The Wolverine boys finished second with 227 points to G. Holmes Braddock Senior High’s 306 points. The boys brought home three gold medals, four silvers and two bronzes in total across the events.

Individually, girls sophomore swimmer Rylee Erisman had the most impressive outing of the area’s swimmers by not only winning three golds and a silver in her four events but by setting two state records in the 50-meter (21.61 seconds) and 100-meter (47.14 seconds) freestyle.

Top 3 area finisher at Class 4A swimming and diving championships

BOYS

• Windermere’s Ryan Erisman won the 200-meter freestyle.
• Windermere’s Ryan Erisman won the 500-meter freestyle.
• Windermere won the 200-meter freestyle relay (Walter Kueffer, Scott Robinson, Roberto Zarate and Ryan Erisman).
• Windermere’s Jacob Mannarino finished second in one-meter diving.
• Windermere’s Walter Kueffer finished second in the 50-meter freestyle.
• Windermere’s Walter Kueffer finished second in the 100-meter freestyle.
• Windermere finished second in the 400-meter freestyle relay (Walter Kueffer, Roberto Zarate, Scott Robinson and Ryan Erisman). 
• Windermere’s Roberto Zarate finished third in the 100-meter butterfly.
• Windermere’s Roberto Zarate finished third in the 200-meter freestyle.

Girls

• Windermere’s Rylee Erisman won and set the state record in the 50-meter freestyle.
• Windermere’s Rylee Erisman won and set the state record in the 100-meter freestyle.
• Windermere won the 200-meter freestyle relay (Carolina Leitao, Hollace Stokes, Elizabeth Johnson and Aidyn Reese).
• Windermere won the 400-meter freestyle relay Carolina Leitao, Elizabeth Johnson, Maddie Reynolds and Rylee Erisman).
• Windermere’s Carolina Leitao finished second in the 100-meter breaststroke.
• Windermere finished second in the 200-meter medley relay (Maddie Reynolds, Aidyn Reese, Lilliana Krstolic and Rylee Erisman).
• Windermere’s Lilliana Krstolic finished third in the 100-meter butterfly.
• West Orange finished third in the 400-meter freestyle relay (Hannah Le, Kayla McKinney, Kaya Robertson and Linda Egger).