{"id":72889,"date":"2017-01-09T22:06:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T05:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/big-weekend-in-the-water-for-lady-panthers\/"},"modified":"2017-01-10T05:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T05:06:31","slug":"big-weekend-in-the-water-for-lady-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/big-weekend-in-the-water-for-lady-panthers\/","title":{"rendered":"Big weekend in the water for Lady Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c7f6fd8a-735e-4063-a985-b5f71bcee099&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1187\" alt=\"Nanabah Sam competes at the Lady Panthers\u2019 home meet earlier this season. She was part of M-CHS\u2019 winning 200-yard freestyle relay team on Saturday in Delta.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Nanabah Sam competes at the Lady Panthers\u2019 home meet earlier this season. She was part of M-CHS\u2019 winning 200-yard freestyle relay team on Saturday in Delta.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Montezuma-Cortez swim team added another state qualifying time to its 2016-17 list last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Swimming at the Delta Invitational, sophomore Jenna Barner finished first in the 50-yard freestyle and qualified for state with a time of 27.49.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Jenna\u2019s first individual state-qualifying time and she is ecstatic,\u201d head coach Gayle Earley said in an email. \u201cHer new best time is a 27.49 she placed first overall in this event scoring 16 points for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finishing close behind Barner was Nanabah Sam (29.34) in second and Bess McAlpin (30.69) in third.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers had other top finishers in Delta, as Sam Bagge won the 100-yard butterfly (1:07.63) and 100-yard freestyle (1:01.09), and Bagge, Barner, Sam, and McAlpin combined to win the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:54.31).<\/p>\n<p>Saturday also marked the first time the Lady Panthers\u2019 dive team competed.<\/p>\n<p>Alexx Earley, Julianna Goad and Allyssa and Maddy Ludington all competed for M-CHS. And although they were each disqualified for not completing the inward and reverse dives, they did have four legal dives, and their development in the dive team\u2019s first year has impressed Earley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely proud of them for braving the diving board in a meet,\u201d she said. \u201cThey have learned six dives in five weeks, and considering that most of them had never even done a forward dive off a board when they started, it is impressive how far they have come in such a short amount of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dive team will continue working to improve its inward and reverse dives with the goal of scoring at the Panthers\u2019 next meet, while the swimmers hope to continue to lengthen their list of state-qualifying marks in their next competition at home on Friday at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-CHS swim team hits another state mark and dive team competes in first meet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72889"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}