Several boys and girls school swimming records were set by Coahulla Creek High School swimmers during the 2025 Northwest Georgia Championship meet recently at Calhoun High School’s Calhoun Aquatic Center.
The meet featured the Colts battling 15 other teams including Calhoun, Jefferson, North Paulding, Adairsville, Heritage, Ringgold and Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe, with junior McKinley Floyd setting the girls school record for the 50-meter freestyle in 27.81 seconds.
Coahulla Creek sophomore Teyah Riegel set the record for the girls 100-meter breaststroke at one minute, 22.07 seconds, while Riegel, Floyd, Anna-Kate Gordon and Ella Foster set team records for the girls 4×200-meter freestyle relay at 1:55.90 and the girls 200-meter medley relay at 2:14.95.
For the Coahulla Creek boys team, Spencer Valencia, Luke Mederios, Jonah Ogas and Colton Fisher set a new school record for the boys 200-meter medley relay at 1:50.35.
Coahulla Creek’s head swimming coach Todd Ogas said Valencia’s, Mederios’, Fisher’s and Jonah Ogas’ 200-meter medley relay time qualified them for the Georgia High School Association 1A-3A state meet for swimming and diving at Georgia Tech in Atlanta on Wednesday.
“This was our fifth state qualifying event this season, which is three more than we’ve ever had before in one state meet,” Todd Ogas said. “Our swim team has had its most successful season in our 10-year history.”
He said the four swimmers, as well as alternate Joseph Gravitt, will compete in several qualified events at the state meet, including the boys 200-meter medley relay and 200-meter freestyle relay.
Individually, Mederios will compete in the 100-meter breaststroke and Jonah Ogas will compete in the 100-meter backstroke and 200-meter individual medley.
For the Calhoun meet, Coahulla Creek had a combined team score (boys and girls) of 255, placing seventh behind winner Calhoun, Jefferson, Northgate, North Paulding, Adairsville and Woodland.
The Lady Colts placed fifth with a score of 125. Coahulla Creek’s boys team placed seventh with a score of 130.
“The size of our team is what puts this all in perspective,” said Todd Ogas. “We have only 15 swimmers, 10 girls and five boys. What we lack in numbers we make up for in skill and toughness.”