Eye on the prize(s)

by Chuck Fiebernitz

CANTON — The Pisgah varsity girls swim team will have a definite objective in mind when she competes in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 1A/2A Swimming Championships Saturday in Raleigh.

You read that correct...SHE!

She, is sophomore Katy Sorrells — one half of the Pisgah swimming team this season — and the lone Black Bear to qualify for the state meet, which is the sophomore’s second consecutive appearance in the state meet.

Sorrells’ primary goal when she travels to Willis Casey Natatorium on the campus of North Carolina State University is to learn from last year and capture two state individual titles for Saturday’s finals.

Sorrells will seek to claim the 200 IM and the 100 butterfly and she is currently ranked sixth in the 1A/2A classification. Her season’s best time in the 200 IM — 2:21.31 — is less than seven seconds shy of the No. 1 ranked Cardinal Gibbons’ Came Figures (2:14.39).

In addition, her season’s best time in the 100 fly — 1:02.90 — is just five seconds shy (57.29) of the state 1A/2A top-ranked pair of Juliana Prim from Starmount and Melan Roberts of Cardinal Gibbons.

“She’s work very hard this season and she’s in good shape to compete for a state title with these times going in and she’s where I want her to be,” said Carol Sorrells, Katy’s mother and the Pisgah Head Swim Coach. “She did well last year as a freshman and she has improved dramatically. Now all she has to do is do it in the pool Saturday.”

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