Coach Terri Morse's Pecos Eagle swimmers are favored to win the District 4 swim competition in Monahans water on Saturday, Jan. 31 at the Lobo MultiSport Complex. Pecos will get competition for the team title from Fort Stockton and Big Spring, another 4A school. But Sophomore Candice Teague , already the Monahans High School record holder in the 100 back sprint, is seeded first in two individual events - the 50 Free sprint and the back. And it doesn't make any difference that she comes from a 3A school, notes Lobo Coach Doug Ward. In fact, Ward thinks his desert Lobo swimmers will be competitive in the district swim competition that matches both 4A and 3A schools.
Swimmers start early and stay late.
Preliminaries are scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Ward notes that those schools plus Monahans would roughly be the equivalent of the old 4A football conference in which the Big Green competed before the school moved to 3A as student enrollment declined. But they're little swimmers with a big kick. Ward expects some broken records and wall to wall competition that will depend on the dive, the glide and the turns. Consider Teague, the Green Wave sophomore.