Liberty’s boys’ swim team earned one relay and three individual medals at the District XI Class 3A Swimming Championships on Friday and Saturday at Parkland High School.

Hurricane sophomore Patrick Gilhool took silver in the 100 butterfly.

“It was a really good race between us three (Gilhool, Emmaus’s Gio Germano, and Nazareth’s Gabe Laslo), and even on the first 50, we all went into the wall together. Those two guys really pushed me to swim faster and so hopefully I get a bid to states,” Gilhool said.

Gilhool placed second with a time of 51.30. Germano’s time was 51.20, and Laslo’s was 51.35.

“I dropped a good amount of time. That’s all that really matters,” said Gilhool. “On the third 25 they started getting ahead of me, and I was like, I have to keep up with them. But I felt good and I looked at the time, and it was a good time.”

Liberty sophomore Addison Collins won the bronze medal when he placed third in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:01.13.

“I started off pretty well going into my first turn, but I lost the lead a little bit and I was told by my teammates I was around seventh, but I really brought it back in the last 50,” Collins said. “I think my second turn got me back in the race, but I lengthened my stroke and glided into the finish.”

Because Parkland’s scoreboard is laid out differently than most, Collins didn’t immediately realize he medaled.

“I looked at the wrong time at first but when I saw I was third I got pretty excited,” he said.

Collins also medaled in the 50 free, taking fourth place with a time of 21.90.

“My goal was to break 22 seconds. It was my first time swimming the 50 really competitively. I was really happy with my swim,” he said. “I was glad I got fourth, and the times, they were all so close, all within .5.”

In the last event of the meet, Parkland’s 400 free relay team was disqualified, and Liberty’s Trevor Lenig, Corbin Eisenhardt, Ben Service, and Caleb Stein, who initially appeared to finish in fifth place, took the fourth place medal.

“The relays are a team effort and a team accomplishment when they do well, and I was so happy for the guys,” said Liberty coach Reik Foust. “They deserved it and they got it.

“And the girls getting second today [in the 400 free relay] was fantastic. They swam out of their suits. It was a fun day, a good day, and yesterday as well. We come here and we know we’re going to do well. We swim through our dual meets, we taper very well, so we finished up the day today really strong.”

In boys’ team results, Liberty placed fourth out of 17 teams with 183 points. Emmaus took first place with 547.5 points, Parkland was second with 339 points, and Nazareth placed third with 208.5 points.

Freedom’s boys placed 10th with 79 points.