The Sun and News, Saturday, March 9, 2024/ Page 15toes to make sure they didn’t
move, and they did their job.
That is all I can ask for as a
coach. Today was exception-
al. I am so proud of my ath-
letes.”
The TK ladies had a score
of 222.70 in round two.
Smith said she felt like she
was much more present men-
tally at this year’s finals. The
excitement and adrenaline
left her barely remembering
what had happened at the
end of the 2023 finals.
There were two stunning
scores, aside from TK’s per-
formance, that played a big
part in the day’s final stand-
ings. Gibraltar Carlson was
in second place, .54 behind
Allen Park heading into
round three, but a stunt group
came crashing down during
their round three routine
forcing an eight-point deduc-
tion that really hurt Carlson’s
chances of keeping pace with
Allen Park.
The other biggie was the
round two score for the
Cedar Springs girls – 228.68.
The TK ladies were pretty
happy to boost their roundtwo score from regionals by
a little over two points. The
Red Hawks upped their game
to improve on their round
two score from regionals by
more than six points.
Trojan senior Mali
Holland got up out of the
circle of her teammates as
the Red Hawks’ final tally
was read with all the teams
gathered on the mat and then
plopped down laying on her
back as the numbers sank in.
Finishing .08 behind the Red
Hawks was just about the
only thing for the Trojans tofeel any kind of disappoint-
ment in all day long.
The only other thing to
feel bittersweet about was
the meet being the last for a
group of Trojan seniors who
have been a part of a few of
the best competitive cheer
seasons, if not the best, ever
at TK.
“They are so ruthless, in a
good way,” Lula said of her
seniors. “They are ruthless,
and they are gritty, and they
have been so dedicated from
the very beginning ... I
almost feel like they created
mini next generations of
themselves. They have total-
ly, 100 percent taken them
under their wing and not
only athletically. They know
how to lead kids and what is
expected of our program. My
seniors are exceptional.”
The Trojan senior group
includes Kenady Smith,
Holland, Ana Jo Smith, Ava
Jahnke and Emilie Landry, as
well as exchange students
Madita Boppel, Martine
Christensen, Nina Durikova
and Aurora Sisto.
With a big sophomore
group and some talented
juniors, coach Lula sees her
program remaining strong
for years to come.
The state champs will
likely be strong for years to
come too. Allen Park had
scores of 238.40 in round
one and 232.54 in round two.
Those were the top scores in
each of those rounds. They
finished off with the top
round three tally too at
322.40.
The runner-up Carleton
Airport team had scores of
235.00 in round one, 229.
in round two and 315.10 in
round two.
The Cedar Springs girls
added scores of 229.70 in
round one and 310.70 to their
big round two score. The TK
girls will have to find a new
conference rival next winter
as the Red Hawks are exiting
the OK Conference for the
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allowed.CHEER, continued from previous page
Thornapple Kellogg senior Mali Holland and sophomore Payton Gater perform
during round one of the MHSAA Division 2 Competitive Cheer Finals at Central
Michigan University’s McGuirk Arena Saturday, March 2. (Photo by Brett Bremer)
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left) Ella LeClaire, Madita Boppel, Emilie Landry and Keiryn Merrill as they all shout out to
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DeJager medals in
100-fly and 50-free
at conference meet
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Caledonia/Lowell/South
Christian’s Luke DeJager
met the D1 state qualify-
ing50 time with a swim of
22.59 seconds in the 50-yard
freestyle at the OK Red
Conference Championship
Meet hosted by Hudsonville
the weekend of Feb. 22-
and is in Auburn Hills this
weekend for the MHSAA
Lower Peninsula Division 1
Boys’ Swimming and
Diving Finals at Oakland
University.
DeJager had the two top
eight finishes for the CLS
team against the biggest
swim squads in the Grand
Rapids Area that last week-
end of February. He turned
that preliminary time into a
fifth-place finish in the finals.
He swam to a time of 22.
in the championship race
Feb. 24.
DeJager also placed sev-
enth in the 100-yard butterfly
at the conference meet with a
time of 55.41 seconds.
The CLS team had a cou-
ple other guys reach B Finals.
Sam Jones placed 16th in the
200-yard freestyle with his
time of 1 minute 58.79 sec-
onds. Nolan Fitzgerald was
16th in the 100-yard butter-
fly in 59.92 seconds.
Teammate Anders Foerch
placed 16th in the 500-yard
freestyle in 5:33.44.
CLS also had foursomes
place eighth in all three relay
races.
State powerhouse West
Ottawa once again claimed
the conference champion-
ship with an overall score of
455 points. Rockford was
second with 302 points ahead
of Grandville 287, Grand
Haven 256, Hudsonville249, Jenison 246.5, East
Kentwood 219.5 and CLS
94.
West Ottawa won the two
freestyle relay races at the
end of the meet, the 200-yard
race and the 400-yard race,
but it was the Grandville
Bulldogs who opened the
meet with a victory in the
200-yard medley relay
thanks to a time of 1:36.
from Jackson Merkel, Ty
Vanderwall, Oliver
Ottenwess and Tanner Koster
that beat out the Panther
foursome in the race by a
little over half a second.
Merkel won two individu-
al events too taking the 100-
yard backstroke in 50.98 and
the 100-yard butterfly in
51.58.
Rockford’s Will Cheney
was the meet’s top sprinter
winning the 50-yard free-
style in 20.94 and the 100-
yard freestyle in 46.69. West
Ottawa’s Joseph Engle won
the 200-yard freestyle in
1:42.30 and the 500-yard
freestyle in 4:38.43.
Engle, Luke Catton, Reese
Jungblut and Brody
Menghini won the 400-yard
freestyle relay for West
Ottawa in 3:10.58. The team
of Jungblut, Catton,
Menghini and Owen Carlson
won the 200-yard freestyle
relay in 1:26.99. Carlson and
Menghini had opened the
meet with a 1-2 finish in the
200-yard individual medley.
Carlson won that race in
1:58.65 and Menghini fin-
ished in 1:59.58.
Rockford senior Julian
Cardenas took the diving
competition with a score of 5
14.05 points. Carter
VanSprange from
Hudsonville was the run-
ner-up nearly 50 points back.