MANDEVILLE, La. (November 2, 2024) – The Allstate Sugar Bowl Metro New Orleans High School Championship Swim Meet was held this weekend at Franco's Health Club and Spa. The Metro Championships included 27 schools and approximately 350 individual swimmers. Jesuit High School won its 13th straight boys' championship at the Metro Championships while St. Mary's Dominican earned the title in the girls' division, its fourth straight metro championship.
 
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The Outstanding Swimmers of the Meet were senior Enzo Solitario from Jesuit on the boys side and freshman Avery Daigle from Mandeville for the girls. Solitario set three meet records as he won the 100- (44.89) and 200-yard freestyle (1:37.52) and collected the 50 freestyle record (20.91) for his first leg in the 200 relay. Daigle set records in the 100 (50.62) and 200 freestyle (1:51.65); her time of 23.24 for the first leg of the 200 freestyle set the meet record for the 50 freestyle - and the relay team also set the meet record. Solitario, who competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials this past summer in Indianapolis, was also the Outstanding Swimmer in last year's event.
 
Dominican recorded 393 points to easily top runner-up Mount Carmel's 236 points. Northshore was third with 22.5 points while St. Scholastica (217.5) and Mandeville (200) rounded out the top five.
 
On the boys side, Jesuit tallied 350.5 points while St. Paul's was second with 275 points. E.D. White notched 250.5 points while Northshore (202) and Pope John Paul II (148) were fourth and fifth, respectively.
 
Other standouts included Jesuit junior Aidan Villars and Dominican sophomore Kendall Jollands. Villars set a meet record in the 100 butterfly (48.75), placed second in the 200 individual medley, and swam on the winning 200 medley and 400 freestyle relay teams. Jollands, who was the girls outstanding swimmer last year, set a record in the 200 butterfly (56.3) and also won the 100 backstroke.
 
Other two-event winners were Mandeville junior Emma Cate Dobie with a girls meet-record time in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.3) and a win in the 200 individual medley, and Destrehan senior Nathan Noel in the boys 200 individual medley and 100 breaststroke.
 
The Sugar Bowl Metro High School Championship is the premier swimming event for high school athletes in the metropolitan area. The popularity and significance of the event exceeds that of the city and state championship meets as it includes the schools of all five classes of LHSAA, including public and private schools – ensuring that the best swimmers compete against each other, regardless of classification. The meet includes schools not only from New Orleans but also from the Northshore and other metropolitan areas.
 
The Metro Championship is sanctioned by U.S. Swimming and this is the 13th year that the Allstate Sugar Bowl has sponsored this event.
 
The mission of the Allstate Sugar Bowl is to sponsor and promote amateur sporting events which will foster revenue and spark economic growth in the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. Through its year-round slate of events, the organization has generated over $2.5 billion of economic impact for the city and the state in the last decade alone.