Highlights from the Elmira Girls Swimming & Diving Invitational

Athletes from 13 Section 4 schools united to raise funds for the Women in Pink Foundation (WINK) on Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Elmira Girls Swimming and Diving Invitational at Ernie Davis Academy's Thomas Natatorium in Elmira.

The Splash for a Cure event also saw multiple athletes post qualifying scores or times to secure spots in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association championship meet, which takes place Nov. 20 and 21 at the Webster Aquatic Center near Rochester.

The Women in Pink Foundation raises money for Southern Tier organizations that support breast-cancer treatment, research, and awareness. Elmira's meet had raised a total of about $8,000 over the previous four invitationals.

Some highlights from the two-day meet, which began Friday with diving and concluded Saturday with swimming.

Highlights from the Elmira Girls Swimming & Diving Invitational

Ithaca, Johnson City, Lansing won team titles

The meet was divided into three classes, with team champions crowned in each while individual results were combined into one.

Ithaca captured the team title in Class A with 334 points, followed by Corning with 213 and Vestal with 176.

The highly contested Class B team title went to Johnson City with 284 points, followed by Waverly with 274, and Owego Free Academy with 271.

Lansing was Class C champion with 386 points.

State qualifying standards reached in four events

Ithaca eighth-grader Olivia Houppert-Singer shared emotional embraces with teammates after hitting the state standard in the 200-yard individual medley with her winning time of 2:11.73. She came in with a top time of 2:14.67, nearly 2 seconds off the state standard of 2:12.84.

Houppert-Singer added a win in the 100 breaststroke and was part of Ithaca's victorious 200 medley relay.

Corning's Alexys Nale with her winning effort of 24.47 in the 50 freestyle. Nale was just off the state standard of 54.36 in the 100 freestyle with her winning time of 54.37.

Divers Ayla Young of Owego Free Academy and Makenzie Blauvelt of Horseheads hit the state 1-meter diving standard of 440.0. Young won with a score of 524.85, followed in second by Blauvelt at 494.30.

Waverly's winning 200 freestyle relay of Meg Atanasoff, Natalie Steck, Brynna Twedt and Audrey Kellogg qualified with a time of 1:40.72. The standard is 1:41.69.

Atanasoff joined Nale in hitting the state standard in the 50 freestyle with her runner-up time of 24.54.

Class A : Ithaca 334, Corning 213, Vestal 176, Horseheads 173, Union-Endicott 170, Elmira 120, Binghamton 84.

Class B : Johnson City 284, Waverly 274, Owego Free Academy 271, Maine-Endwell 25.

Class C : Lansing 386, Chenango Forks 292.

200-yard medley relay : 1-Ithaca (Taz McArt, Anisa Pepinsky, Olivia Houppert-Singer, Fiona Blakely-Armitage) 1:54.4; 2-Corning 1:54.81; 3-Dryden 2:01.98.

200 freestyle : 1-Lea Teschl (Ithaca) 2:00.39; 2-Ellie Ballard (Corning) 2:03.85; 3-Avery Burnett (Chenango Forks) 2:07.66.

200 IM: 1-Olivia Houppert-Singer (Ithaca) 2:11.73; 2-Yih Hui Lim (Vestal) 2:19.77; 3-Liana Kadylak (JC) 2:20.43.

50 freestyle : 1-Alexys Nale (Corning) 24.47; 2-Meg Atanasoff (Waverly) 24.54; 3-Frances Miller (Binghamton) 25.18.

Diving : 1-Ayla Young (Owego) 524.85; 2-Makenzie Blauvelt (Horseheads) 494.30; 3-Leah Rozelle (M-E) 412.50.

100 butterfly : 1-Liana Kadylak (JC) 1:03.54; 2-Taz McArt (Ithaca) 1:03.88; 3-Anisa Pepinsky (Ithaca) 1:04.19.

100 freestyle : 1-Alexys Nale (Corning) 54.37; 2-Meg Atanasoff (Waverly) 55.05; 3-Audrey Kellogg (Waverly) 55.2.

500 freestyle : 1-Ellie Ballard (Corning) 5:19.83; 2-Lea Teschl (Ithaca) 5:26.17; 3-Vanessa Downey (Lansing) 5:43.04.

200 freestyle relay : 1-Waverly (Meg Atanasoff, Natalie Steck, Brynna Twedt, Audrey Kellogg) 1:40.72; 2-Corning 1:45.94; 3-Ithaca 1:50.45.

100 backstroke : 1-Yih Xinn Lim (Vestal) 1:02.93; 2-Taz McArt (Ithaca) 1:03.0; 3-Lindsey Allen (Forks) 1:04.33.

100 breaststroke : 1-Olivia Houppert-Singer (Ithaca) 1:10.14; 2-Frances Miller (Binghamton) 1:10.32; 3-Kelsey Jackson (U-E) 1:13.92.

400 freestyle relay : 1-Waverly (Meg Atanasoff, Natalie Steck, Brynna Twedt, Audrey Kellogg) 3:44.96; 2-Ithaca 3:46.68; 3-Dryden 3:56.99.