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Keys prep swimmers must wait until later this weekend to learn if times at the District 12-A Meet in Islamorada earned them a spot in the regional meet Thursday in Broward County.
Coral Shores' boys finished third in the 12-team standings from the district meet, held Wednesday at Founders Park, but have only one athlete guaranteed a spot at the regional, first-year diver Luke Terrill.
Terrill, a junior, earned District 12's one-meter springboard crown Tuesday by showing up to the diving meet, held at the University of Miami. He was the only entrant on the boys side, but performed well with 341.7 points. He also scored 20 team points for the Hurricanes.
Only event winners automatically advance to the regional. Swim-event spots are determined by time comparisons from the four district meets in Region 4A.
In general, the top four or five finishers in swim events have a good shot at getting spots at the regional.
Meghan Miller of Coral Shores took second in District 12's one-meter girls diving, scoring 358.3 points. Miller is virtually assured a spot at the regional.
"That was the best I've seen Meghan dive this year," said Coral Shores co-coach Hooker Wellman. "She has an excellent chance at going to the state meet."
Teammate Taylor Anderson, with a fourth-place district standing, likely will earn a regional berth.
Coral Shores co-coach Jon Olsen said he expects at least two and possibly three Hurricane relay teams to swim at the region meet.
"We want to qualify as many people as possible but we have to see what happened at the other districts," Olsen said. "Our district usually is the fastest [in the South Florida region] but the others are starting to catch up."
Traditional District 12-A swimming powers Ransom-Everglades and Gulliver Prep finished first and second in both the boys and girls team standings at Founders. Ransom won the girls title with 429 points; Gulliver took the boys with 530.
Coral Shores' boys had 235 points to take third, behind Ransom's 261.
Key West High School's boys tied Doral Academy for eighth place with 118 points, and Marathon High School's young squad had 26 points for 12th.
In girls' team standings, Coral Shores was in eighth with 156 points. Key West finished 10th with 71. Marathon scored 34 points, edging Mourning Academy.
"We did really well," said Marathon coach Sarah Maschal, noting that most Dolphins swimmers posted their best times of the year at the regional.
"Unfortunately, their fastest just wasn't fast enough," she said. "We don't have anyone going to regionals." Matt Herum of Coral Shores took third in the boys 100-yard breaststroke with a 1:06.8 time, the highest individual finish for a Monroe County swimmer at the District 12-A Meet.
Coral Shores senior Ray Vaughn swam a 53.13-second time to take fourth place in the district's highly competitive 100 freestyle race. His teammate, freshman Luis Santiesteban, was eighth in the championship heat (53.84).
Herum and Vaughn are probable regional qualifiers, and could swim with teammates A.J. Hamer and Santiesteban as members of the district's third-place boys 200 medley relay squad that finished less than a second behind Ransom for runner-up.
Key West earned a spot in the championship heat of the boys medley relay, with J.J. Bright, Clay Wagner, Scott Buchman and Lucas Mongelli taking eighth overall.
Coral Shores' 200 medley relay girls -- Taelor Cuppett, Katie Fry, Sarah Blackwell and Dannon Magrane -- took fifth, possibly putting the squad in line for a regional invitation.
In the boys' 200-freestyle relay, Coral Shores (Santiesteban, Vaughn, Herum, Hamer, 1:37.44) finished fourth in the championship heat.
Key West (Nicholas Palay, Mongelli, A.J. Hally, Brandon Cyr, 1:40.0) took fifth. Both Keys teams could be invited to the regional at Nova Southeastern University in Davie.
Conch senior Max Kohler made the championship heat of the boys 500 freestyle, swimming a 5:57.6 for eighth place in district.
Ryan McCarthy and Dick Wagner contributed to this report.