TIFTON – Jaden Howell took two individual first-place finishes and was on a pair of gold medal-winning relay teams to lead the Colquitt County middle school swim team to a runner-up finish in a meet held on Oct. 24 in Tifton.
The Colquitt County boys also got a first-place finish from Selah Huante, who won the 50-yard butterfly event.
The meet was won by Tift County, whose boys and girls teams both took first-place finishes.
Colquitt’s boys were second and its girls were third in the meet that also drew teams from Thomas County Middle School, Tiftarea Academy, Pierce County and Providence School of Tifton.
Howell won the 50-yard freestyle with a 27.87 and the 50-yard breaststroke with a 37.44.
He also was on the 200-yard relay team and 200-yard freestyle relay team that took first-place finishes.
Also on the two relay teams were Huante, Daylen Peebles and Maddux Simmons.
Huante earned his gold medal in the 50-yard butterfly with a time of 29.72.
He also finished second in 50-yard freestyle.
Simmons also earned a silver medal with his performance in the 100-yard individual medley.
Allie Mobley turned in a pair of silver-medal swims for the Lady Packers, placing second in both the 100-yard individual medley and the 50-yard breaststroke.
Earning bronze medals were Peebles, in the 100-yard freestyle, and the girls 400-yard freestyle relay team of Evie Briones, Christie Conn, Cy’Mecee Peterson and Emma Bailey.
Jason Valega had a fourth-place finish in the 50-yard breaststroke, as did the girls 200-yard freestyle relay team of Mobley, Conn, Reese Medders and Maryalyce McCall.
Also competing for the Colquitt County boys was Fletcher Krout and for the girls, Maisie Ford.