MARSHALLTOWN — Grace Hoeper, a Solon High School sophomore swimming for Iowa City High, won the 50-yard freestyle Saturday, Nov. 12 at the 2022 Girls State Swimming and Diving Meet in Marshalltown. Hoeper won in 23.34 seconds, bettering her preliminaries time of 23.54 seconds the day before, and her qualifying time of 23.72. She was also third in the 100-yard butterfly in 55.94 seconds, improving on her Friday preliminaries time of 56.21 seconds.
Also on Saturday, City High’s Ellie Galloway, Saoirse Miller, Margalit Frank, and Hoeper were 24th in the 200 yard medley relay in 1:55.28 while Miller, Frank, fellow Solonite Avery Mann, and Hoeper were 23rd in the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:48.42.
City’s Greta Stanier took 25th in the 1-meter dive competition Friday (Nov. 11) with 192.55 points.