MOULTRIE — She has traveled to Carrollton, stayed at home in Moultrie and gone up the road to Tifton.

But since 1999, Caroline Rogers of the Moultrie Sharks Swim Team has not missed a Georgia Recreation and Parks Association state swim meet.

Rogers will compete in the 50-yard breaststroke in the girls 13-14 age group on Saturday in the second day of the state meet, which has returned to the Jim Buck Goff Recreation Complex after a two-year absence.

In her eighth straight state swim meet appearance, Rogers will be joined in competing in individual events by teammates Andy Alekseichuk, 9-10; Burton Brown, 9-10; Ashlee Paramore, 15-18; Jessica Price, 13-14; Haley Goodman, 11-12; Amy Peek, 13-14; Connor Walsh, 13-14; and Mitchell Taylor, 7-8.

The Sharks 11-12 girls 200-yard medley relay team also will compete. The team includes Staci Repass swimming the backstroke; Goodman, the breaststroke; Katie Moore, the butterfly; and Ansley Moore, freestyle.

The Sharks are coached by Pierre Rogers, who has been assisted this season by Sarah Price and Breanna Campbell.

The Moultrie Sharks contingent will be among more than 600 swimmers competing for state titles this week.

The meet will hold opening ceremonies at 9 a.m. today with prelims in the 8-and-under and 10-and-under age groups beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Prelims are expected to end around 12:30 p.m. Finals will begin at 4 p.m. Awards presentation is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

On Saturday, competition in 12-and-under, 14-and-under and 15-18 age groups will get under way at 9:30 a.m. Again, there will be a break from about 1 p.m.-4 p.m., when the finals will begin.

Moultrie-Colquitt County Parks and Recreation Director Terry Peek, a former swimming coach who brought a team to Moultrie from Thomaston for the 2003 state meet, said he expects the competition to be keen.

“We’ll have to see how we fare,” he said. “There will be some good swimmers coming in. I think we’ll see some records fall this weekend.”

Pierre Rogers had much the same assessment.

“It’s going to be tight,” said Rogers. “We are going to be going up against some year-round swimmers.”

The Sharks best shots at top finishes rest with Amy Peek and Caroline Rogers.

Peek has the eighth-best qualifying time in the 100-yard individual medley. She placed second in the event in the District swim meet in Tifton on July 8.

Rogers’ qualifying time in the 50-yard breaststroke is ranked fourth and she won the event in District meet.

She should not be awed by the competition.

Rogers, who won the gold medal in the 25-yard breaststroke in the 10-and-under age group at the state meet in Moultrie in 2002, went to her first state meet in Carrollton as a 7-year-old in 1999.

In that meet, she placed fourth in the finals, lowering her seed time from 24.09 to 23.09.

The follow year, she returned to Carrollton to compete in the breaststroke.

The state meet moved to her home pool in 2001 and Rogers won two medals, placing fourth in 10-and-under 25-yard breaststroke and eighth in the 50-yard freestyle.

She also joined Ashlee Paramore, Emily Lee and Katy Weilbrenner on the 100-yard medley relay team that finished sixth.

The follow year, she won the gold medal in the 10-and-under 25-yard breaststroke, turning in a personal best 18.64 in the prelims and besting that time in the finals with a 18.2. She also was fourth in the 50-yard freestyle.

Moving up to 12-and-under in 2003, Rogers won at District and placed seventh at the state meet in the 50-yard breaststroke.

She also swam the breaststroke on the 200-yard individual medley relay team that also included Weilbrenner, Abbey Taylor and Sara Clayton.

The state meet moved to the new pool in Tifton in 2004 and Rogers had no trouble adjusting, winning the silver medal in the 12-and-under girls 50-yard breaststroke.

Last year, she moved up to the 13-14 age group and still managed to qualify for the state meet, that again was held in Tifton.

Rogers was just one of six Sharks who qualified for state last year and she and Jessica Price are the only two from the team who have qualified each of the last two years.