2024 Girls Swimming and Diving State Meet Release

Longtime defending team champions will look to add to their traditions of success when the Minnesota State High School League’s Girls Swimming and Diving State Meet commences later this week. Visitation returns as the 10-time defending champion in Class A, not including 2020 when no tournament was held. Edina is looking for its third consecutive crown and 20th overall. 

This year’s state meet is scheduled for November 14-16 at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. Diving preliminaries are on Thursday followed by the swimming preliminaries on Friday. Championships will be held on Saturday.

Here is a snapshot of the Class A meet:

• Monticello sophomore Adalynn Biegler returns to defend her title in both the 50 freestyle and the 100 freestyle. She also has the best qualifying time in each race; 22.94 in the 50 and 50.49 in the 100. If Biegler wins, it will be her third consecutive championship in each event.
• Katie Miller, a senior from Visitation, returns to defend her crown in the 500 freestyle with the fastest qualifying time of 5:04.19. Miller also has the best qualifying time of 1:51.51 in the 200 freestyle. She will face off against defending champion, Orono junior Graycin Andreen, in that race
• Austin senior Alayna Kennedy is the final returning individual champion. She comes back in 1-meter diving.
• Orono defends its titles in the two freestyle relays. Monticello has the fastest qualifying time in the 200 (1:37.64) and Delano has the best qualifying time in the 400 (3:33.97). 
• Breck School will defend its 2023 championship in the 200 medley relay. The co-op of Mounds Park Academy/St. Croix Preparatory Academy/Gentry Academy holds the fastest qualifying time of 1:48.11 in that event.

Here is a look at the Class AA meet: 

• Edina returns in two relays, but Minnetonka owns the fastest qualifying time in each race. The Skippers have 1:43.88 in the 200 medley relay and 1:35.54 in the 200 freestyle relay. 
• In the 400 freestyle relay, Stillwater Area is the defending champion, but Minnetonka again has the best qualifying time (3:27.56).
• Shakopee senior Arianna Zelen is looking to defend her crown in the 100 freestyle with the fastest qualifying time of 50.17. Zelen also has the best qualifying time of 23.14 in the 50 freestyle. She will compete against the defending champion, Edina junior Libbi McCarthy.
• Minneapolis Southwest junior Madeline Kohel is hoping to defend her title in 1-meter diving. In 2023, she set an All-Time state meet record of 529.20 in the Class AA finals.
• St. Michael-Albertville senior Lily Van Heel is looking for her third title in the 100 backstroke and her second in the 200 individual medley. Van Heel has the best qualifying time in the backstroke (55.16), but East Ridge sophomore Logan Havermann owns the fastest qualifying time in the individual medley (2:02.21).
• Minnetonka senior Annabelle Wentzel and Prior Lake senior Ivy Solt are the final returning champions in Class AA. Wentzel has the best qualifying time of 53.76 in the 100 butterfly and Solt comes in with fastest qualifying time of 4:57.44 in the 500 freestyle.