EVENTS
Sacred Heart Academy Swim Team
Celebrates State Championship
Valkyries capture fifth straight team title
LOUISVILLE
Sacred Heart Academy (SHA) in Louisville celebrated its state championship swimming
team – and coach, Jim Luebbe, who was honored with the Tim Cahill Outstanding Coach
Award – in late February after the Valkyries captured their fifth consecutive championship
for SHA by winning six of 12 events and finishing
with 372.5 points.
Senior Brooke Forde finished the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:39.87. Forde also set
a state record in the 200 free with a time of 1:44.68. Forde was named both the outstanding
meet competitor and the Midway University Kentucky High School Athletic Association
Female Student Athlete of the Year.
Junior Tonner DeBeer won the 100 butterfly with a time of 53.02 seconds and the 100
backstroke with a time of 53.94 seconds.
Forde and DeBeer led the way for Sacred Heart, swimming legs on the victorious 200
medley and 400 free relay teams.
DeBeer, Sophia Miller, Allison Bauer and Forde won the 400-yard freestyle relay, and
nearly broke the state record set by SHA last year.
SHA is a college preparatory school for girls founded in 1877 by the Ursuline Sisters
of Louisville. A national Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, SHA is an International
Baccalaureate School with 99 percent of the students pursuing higher education in
hundreds of colleges and universities nationally and internationally. The class of 2016
earned more than $29 million in college scholarships. SHA has won 84 state athletic
championships. The school has more than 10,000 alumnae.
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