# @macjournalism on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CoOhhdtMn2A
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11215938-macjournalism-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-02-04T04:23:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** McCallum Journalism (@macjournalism) — https://gondola.cc/macjournalism

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The swim and dive team placed third overall in the 5A Districts Championship on Saturday, sending 20 swimmers to the 5A Regions meet this weekend. The Knights earned 177 points, following second-place Hays with 197 and first-place LASA with 420.

To the swimmers, the meet represented more than just an opportunity for a better time but the culmination of an entire season of practice and progress in pursuit of making it to the region championship. New and veteran swimmers aspired for a spot on the podium and the satisfaction that placing in the top three brought.

“I was really excited for the meet,” freshman Maya Vasquez-Stegant said. “It was my chance to swim as fast as I could and make my coach, team and myself proud.”

The team knew that not everyone could go to regionals, yet rather than a deterrent, it served to solidify the support for others in the hopes of moving on as a team. Each swimmer who just missed the goal became another swimmer’s reason to push harder.

“We all suffer together, and we all celebrate together,” junior Clara Hopkins said. “The team’s community motivates me and always makes me feel supported.”

Hopkins was one of Mac’s three first-place event winners after swimming a 1:00:04 in the girls 100 free. Junior William Perkins won in the boys 50 free with a time of 24.21 and freshman Iris Burns-Trahanovsky dominated with girls one-meter dive with a final score of 437.40.

Second-place winners included sophomore Liliana Hollinger in the girls 50 free with time of 26.97 and the boys 200 free relay team (senior Atticus Adair and juniors Anderson Friday, Andrew Wong and William Perkins) with a time of 1:47.96.

On the bronze step of the podium were both 200 medley relay teams with the girls (freshman Ramona Considine, sophomores Brayden Oliver and Hollinger and Hopkins) achieving a 2:13.56 time and the boys (Perkins, Wong, Adair and senior Noah Wyrtzen) making 1:57.85. Also in third place were freshman Lily Walewski with a 500 free time of 7:08.03 and Hopkins in 100 backstroke with 1:08.61.

To read our complete story on the meet and what's next for the swim team, please visit macshieldonline.com.

Caption by William Perkins.

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| McCallum Journalism | @macjournalism | https://gondola.cc/macjournalism | Newspaper |
| Julia Copas | @julia_copas | https://gondola.cc/julia_copas | Photographer |

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