10/09/2026
CENTURY VS. MAYO: RESULTS FROM THURSDAY OCTOBER 8:
The Century Girls Swimming and Diving team extended their dual meet winning streak to 51 last night, defeating cross-town rival Mayo High School in what was anticipated to be a very close competition. Ultimately, Century won 7 of the 12 events and Mayo won 5, extending the Panther's dual meet winning streak that began in 2021.
On Senior Recognition Night, Century was led by 9th grader Quinn Barrone, who won 3 events. Barrone teamed up with senior backstroker Jian-Gross, fellow 9th grader Delia Wagstaff and 10th grader Karley Maley to win the 200 medley relay. Barrone also had the fastest times in the 200 IM and 100 breaststroke with season best times of 2:18.56 and 1:12.95.
Mayo was led by senior freestyler Penelope Hauser, who won both the 50 and 100 yard freestyle events. Hauser also led off the Spartan's winning 400 free relay with teammates Celine Herrmann, Madalyn Viers and Halle Yuan. Yuan, a junior, who usually swims the 100 fly for Mayo, showed her versatility, winning the 200 free in 2:01.98 and putting down the two fastest 50 and 100 free relay splits of the meet, a 24.65 in the 200 free relay and a 55.41 anchoring Mayo's winning 400 free relay. That 100 split time was fully 1.3 seconds faster than any of the other 24 swimmers in the event.
Other winners Thursday night included Century junior Ariana Krueger in the 1-m diving, Mayo 10th grader Harper Mueller in the 100 fly, Century junior Alexandra Pool in the 500 free and Century senior Jian-Gross in the 100 backstroke.
Despite Mayo and Century graduating 12 and 9 seniors respectively, both teams have a large group of up-and-coming young swimmers and divers. As if to put an exclamation point on that, Century 7th grader, Kiera Langenbrunner took 5th place in the 1-m diving.
It is worth noting that Mayo was not at full strength for this meet. Three of the top Spartan swimmers were missing, including senior all-around, all-state swimmer Elise Weingarten and the two Tonn sisters, Annabelle and Corrina. All 3 should be back for the Girls Big 9 Conference meet on October 31 at the Rec Center, when Mayo and Century meet again.
Century has two dual meets remaining in order to extend their winning streak. Next Thursday they take on John Marshall at the JM pool. 6 PM.
In other action Thursday, John Marshall took on Red Wing at Red Wing. We don't have any results from that meet. The Red Wing school district dropped out of the Big 9 Conference last year. They have joined a new conference, but the new conference does not have other schools with swimming or hockey programs. Red Wing continues to compete in Section 1A in swimming, with other schools including Austin and Winona.
Results from Thursday, October 8, 2026
Century 93 – Mayo 88
200 medley relay — 1.Century (JiaYin Jian-Gross, Quinn Barrone, Delia Wagstaff, Karley Maley) 1:56.80, 2. Mayo (Celine Herrmann, Emelia Fischer, Harper Mueller, Madalyn Viers) 1:58.08.
200 freestyle — 1. Halle Yuan (M) 2:01.98, 2. Allexandra Pool (C) 2:03.64, 3. Kenzie Brockman (C) 2:03.66.
200 IM — 1. Quinn Barrone (C) 2:18.56, 2. Emelia Fischer (M) 2:19.02, 3. Delia Wagstaff (C) 2:27.79.
50 freestyle — 1. Penelope Hauser (M) 26.37, 2. Madalyn Viers (M) 26.65, 3. Karley Maley (C) 26.79.
Diving — 1. Ariana Krueger (C) 186.95, 2. Kendall Langenbrunner (C) 182.90 Andrea Korol (M) 162.00.
100 butterfly — 1. Harper Mueller (M) 1:03.22, 2. Madalyn Viers (M) 1:04.19, 3. Delia Wagstaff (C) 1:04.33.
100 freestyle — 1. Penelope Hauser (M) 57.58, 2. Karley Maley (C) 58.60, 3. Vivian Peters (C) 59.66.
500 freestyle — 1. Alexandra Pool (C) 5:29.29, 2. Kenzie Brockman (C) 5:32.20, 3. Halle Yuan (M) 5:32.85.
200 freestyle relay — 1. Century (Karley Maley, Delia Wagstaff, Alexandra Pool, Kenzie Brockman) 1:45.51. 2. Mayo (Emelia Fischer, Penelope Hauser, Harper Mueller, Halle Yuan) 1:45.63.
100 backstroke — 1. JiaYin Jian-Gross (C) 1:03.58, 2. Celine Herrmann (M) 1:06.13, 3. Vivian Peters (C) 1:08.49.
100 breaststroke — 1. Quinn Barrone (C) 1:12.95 (x), 2. Emelia Fischer (M) 1:13.33, 3. Chloe Vesterby (C) 1:18.07 (x).
400 freestyle relay — 1. Mayo (Penelope Hauser, Celine Herrmann, Madalyn Viers, Halle Yuan) 3:53.57, 2. Century (JiaYin Jian-Gross, Vivian Peters, Alexandra Pool, Kenzie Brockman) 3:53.76 (x).