VSA rules the pool at Stamm swim meet
Published 1:31 pm Monday, June 9, 2025
- Vicksburg Swim Association members pose for a team photo at the Stamm Meet on Sunday. The VSA won both the girls and boys team championships at the event's short and long course meets. (Submitted to The Vicksburg Post)
The Vicksburg Swim Association ruled the pool at its annual home meet.
The VSA won 55 events at the short course meet and 22 more in the long course meet to sweep the boys and girls team championships in the three day event at City Pool over the weekend. Every VSA swimmer who competed put points on the board, with a top-five finish in at least one event.
The short course events were contested with 25-yard laps, and the long course with 50-meter laps. Both meets included several age groups from 8-and-under to 15-and-over.
Kara Rowe led the way for the VSA by dominating the girls’ 15-and-over division. She won six events in the short course meet on Friday and nine in the long course meet. She totaled 36 points in the short course events and 88 in long course races to lead the Killer Whales to the girls’ team title in both meets.
Rowe’s time of 6:39.42 in the 400 meter individual medley shattered the team record set by Laura Butler in 2012. Rowe beat the mark by 20 seconds.
The VSA girls scored 398 points in the short course meet, and the Mississippi Makos were second with 162. In long course, the VSA had 346 points and the Makos were second with 326.
Addison Billings won the 13-14-year-olds’ girls 1,500 meters in the long course meet, and six events in the short course meet. Billings’ time of 23 minutes, 40.40 seconds broke by 11 seconds an 11-year-old team record set by Adrienne Eckstein in 2014.
Shelby Williams also won five individual short course events — the 100 yard individual medley, 50 freestyle, 25 butterfly, 25 backstroke and 25 breaststroke — as well as the 100-yard mixed freestyle relay.
Cecilia Feibelman, Niya Scroggins, Sicily Smith, Ella Opperman and Ellen Spangler also won multiple individual events in the short course meet, and Juliette Torres Lemus was the champion in the 8-and-under girls 25 yard freestyle.
In the long course meet, Torres Lemus won the 200 freestyle, Spangler won the 200 IM, and Sutter Wong won the 200 breaststroke in their respective age groups.
The VSA’s boys’ team totaled 381 points in the short course meet to beat the Makos’ 229 for the title. In the long course meet, the VSA racked up 438 points to easily top the Elmwood Sharks — who scored 309 — and bring home the team title.
James McKenna was the high point scorer for the Killer Whales. He won the 1,500 meter freestyle and the 200 backstroke in the 15-and-over division to go along with three second-place finishes in the 200 freestyle, 200 butterfly and 200 mixed medley relay.
Kitson McComas and Mason Carpenter both won three events in the 8-and-under age group.
McComas was the champion in the 50 backstroke and freestyle, and the 100 backstroke. Carpenter won the 100 breaststroke and freestyle, and the 50 breaststroke, and he also won the 25 and freestyle during the short course meet.
Cormac Wiedenfeld won all five of his individual events — the 100 yard individual medley, 50 butterfly and freestyle, and 25 freestyle and butterfly — in the short course meet in the 13-14-year-olds’ division.
Titus Williams also won five events in the 9-10-year-olds’ division — the 100 IM; 100 yard mixed freestyle relay; and the 50 butterfly, freestyle and breaststroke.
Mason Poole won the 11-12-year-olds’ 25 yard breaststroke during the short course meet. Strickland Stanton won the 9-10-year-olds’ 25 backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle during the short course meet.
Another swimmer from Vicksburg, Ashtin Wallace, won four short course and five long course events in the 15-and-over division while competing for the Sunkist Swim Team.