State qualifications are on the line for the Penn Boys Swim/Dive Team at the 2025 Sectional Championships hosted by Mishawaka.
Preliminaries are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20.
Diving preliminaries are set for 9 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, and the consolations and finals start at 1 p.m.
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Penn is the defending team champion. Sectional competition for the Kingsmen includes Bremen, Marian, Mishawaka, New Prairie, South Bend Adams, South Bend Riley, South Bend St. Joseph, South Bend Washington and Trinity.
Qualifying for state:
Swimming
- First-place sectional winners in each event qualify for the state meet plus
- Any contestant who equals or betters the state time standard in their respective event in the consolation finals or championship finals of the sectional qualifies for the state plus. The state standard may not be achieved by a swimmer who is competing as the first leg of a relay.
- The next fastest number of contestants in the state that would bring the total number of state meet entrants to thirty‐two (32) in each event. In the event that a tie exists for the 32nd position, the tie shall stand and both swimmers shall advance to the state championships.
Diving
- First through fourth place sectional winners will qualify for the diving regional.
- First through eighth place regional winners will qualify for the state finals.
State Swimming Qualifying Standards
Event Boys Standard
200 yd Medley Relay 1:36.93
200 yd Freestyle 1:42.73
200 yd Individual Medley 1:55.04
50 yd Freestyle 0:21.43
100 yd Butterfly 0:50.96
100 yd Freestyle 0:47.02
500 yd Freestyle 4:42.47
200 yd Freestyle Relay 1:27.92
100 yd Backstroke 0:51.89
100 yd Breaststroke 0:58.16
400 yd Freestyle Relay 3:13.55
