Sat - 03 Dec
Written by Tom Fruehling
While he was a state champion swimmer as a boy, Jefferson High School junior Lance Scallon has been like a fish out of water since then.
But he’s back in the swim again as a key first-year member of the J-Hawk team.
Coach Ryan York is happy to have him, even though he knows the swim team wasn’t Scallon’s first choice. Scallon came out this winter only because knee surgery last summer kept him off the varsity football and basketball teams. Lean and well-muscled at close to 6-foot-4, he’s already, he’s made a big splash.
In the first dual meet of the season last Tuesday against Waterloo East, Scallon won the 100-yard backstroke and 100 freestyle events and swam on the winning 200 medley and 200 free relays.
At Saturday’s J-Hawk Relays, he put his team in the lead in the first leg of the 400 medley relay and swam strong races in the 300 backstroke and 400 free relays.
Jefferson didn’t fare too well in its own meet, finishing last out of six teams as Dubuque Senior swam away from the rest.
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