Thea Oman Advances to State in the 100 Freestyle

The Crookston Pirate Girls Swim team’s Thea Oman finished second place in the 100 Freestyle at the Section 8A Swimming and Diving Championships at the Warroad pool and will advance to the state meet next week in Minneapolis.  Crookston had two girls place in two events with Oman finishing third in the 200 Freestyle and Madison Hoiland earning a fifth-place finish in the 100 Breaststroke.

Thea Oman finished second place in the 100 Freestyle race with a personal best time of 55.59  Thea beat the third place swimmer by five-hundredths of a second.
Oman just missed going to state in the 200 Freestyle as she was edged by the second place swimmer by 19/hundredths of a second.  Oman was was also a member of the 200 Medley Relay team that was disqualified and did not place.
Madison Hoiland had a personal best in the 100 breaststroke and finished fifth place with a time of 1:14.31.  Hoiland missed second place by 7/10th’s of a second.
In the consolation finals, the 200 Free Relay team of Claire Oman, Madison Hoiland, Elizabeth Erdman and Thea Oman finished ninth place and the 400 Relay team of Fallon Johnson, Victoria Proulx, Muira MacRae and Kenzie Aamoth finished 10th place.  The last Pirate result was Elizabeth Erdman in the 100 Butterfly with a 13th place finish.

Thea Oman will compete in the prelims of the Minnesota State High School League Class A Girls Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota Aquatics Center in Minneapolis on Thursday, November 15 with the session starting at Noon. If Thea finishes in the top 16, she would swim in the finals on Friday.