Harris swims for gold
March 3, 2020
Erich Vanblargan
THE MIRROR
Harris brought home the gold for the Stevens Point Area Senior High school after competing at the boy’s state swim meet in Madison on Saturday, Feb. 22 while competing in a 500-yard freestyle event.
This is the first time that a Stevens Point Area Senior High swimmer has placed first Wisconsin state competition.
Harris is a senior with a passion for swimming. He said, “It is something that’s always been part of my life. I have been doing it since I was four years old and its always been there for me and something I take very seriously.”
Harris competed in were the 200-yard individual medley taking second place as the state runner up, as well as the 500-yard freestyle event where he took first place.
The Madison pool bleachers are occupied by over 1,500 observers who come to watch the competition and cheer on the swimmers.
Teammate Hugh Gunderson said, “It was very exciting because you could almost not hear any of the words of the announcer over the crowds cheering. It was kind of annoying but cool to hear all of their support.”
The crowd’s excitement was not misplaced as Harris, Gunderson and the other gentlemen on the Stevens Point Area Senior High swimming team closely competed with other swimmers to try and bring home a win for their school.
McKenna Coyle • Mar 27, 2020 at 6:23 PM
I like how you got one of the other swimmers to talk about what the atmosphere was like at the competition.
Larson Lewis • Mar 27, 2020 at 3:53 PM
I think you could have written SPASH instead of writing it out but otherwise, I thought you did a great job highlighting the experience at the pool at the time. It was good to mention he’s the first SPASH swimmer to win state.
Kaitlyn Flanagan • Mar 27, 2020 at 12:45 PM
That was so cool that he was the first person ever from spash to place first in that competition. That must have took a lot of training! Good job writing this
Kenny Schultz • Mar 27, 2020 at 9:47 AM
I think this article was excellent. I think it’s so cool that SPASH finally has a swimmer who has placed first at state.
Erich Vanblargan • Mar 12, 2020 at 1:49 PM
I had some difficulty writing this article as it was hard to keep the article on just Drew Harris leading me to eventually expand the article. I also feel bad about the picture that I took of Drew it really does look like a mug shot.