The Region 1-AAAA champion Bainbridge High School Bearcats and Lady Cats swim teams were honored for their outstanding 2015-2016 seasons at their annual awards banquet Tuesday night at the school cafeteria.

Special recognition was give to the four swimmers who qualified for the State Class Meet.

Tara Stevens qualified for state in the 100-yard freestyle, the 100-yard breaststroke, the 200-yard individual medley, the 100-yard backstroke and the 200-yard freestyle. At the state meet she competed in the 200-yard freestyle and finished fourteenth in the state with a time of 1:55.95. She also competed in the 100-yard backstroke finish in 1:01.56, good for 26th place.

Also qualifying for state was the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Stevens, Sydney Hutchins, Taylor Bush and Haley Helms. They finished with a time of 1:49.83.

The senior swimmer awards went to Taylor Bush, Carson Harrell and Nour Hasona, who were on the team four years, Haylie Wilkinson and Perry Waddell, who were on the team three years and Dylan Savage, who was on the team two years.

Scholar athlete awards for maintaining a grade point average of 90 or above and earning a score of 1000 on the SAT or 21 on the ACT went to Lady Cats Taylor Bush and Wilkinson and Bearcats Haydn Griffin, Dalton Savage, Logan Moorhead,

Dylan Savage, Perry Waddell, Nour Hasona and Carson Harrell.

Lady Cats earning Region 1-AAAA gold medals included the 200-yard medley relay team of Stevens, who swam the backstroke, Helms, who swam the breaststroke, Katie Campbell, who swam the butterfly, and Hutchins, who swam the freestyle.

In the 200-yard freestyle Stevens won a gold medal and Emilee Poppell won a bronze medal. In the 200-yard individual medley Bush won a silver medal and Campbell won a bronze medal.

In the 50-yard freestyle Hutchins won a silver medal and Helms won a bronze medal. Campbell won a silver medal in the 100-yard butterfly. Bush won a gold medal and Sydney Nutchins won a bronze medal in he 100-yard freestyle. Alaiya Schulyer won a silver medal in the 400-yard freestyle.

Honored for winning the gold medal in the 200-yard freestyle relay were the team of Hutchins, Bush, Helms and Stevens.

Other gold medal winners included Stevens in the 100-yard backstroke and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Emily Chambers, Poppell, Wilkinson and Bush. Bronze medals were also won by Hope Sizemore, Lauren Braswell, Caityn Miller and Rendi Harrison.

The Region 1-AAAA champion Bearcats also had a large number of top medal winners. Silver medals were earned by Hasona in the backstroke, Harrell in the breaststroke, and Waddell in the butterfly. Griffin won a silver medal and Dalton Savage won a bronze medal in the 200-yard freestyle. Wadell also won a bronze medal in the 200-yard individual medley. Boutwell won gold medals in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle races. Harrell won a silver medal in the 100-yard freestyle and Caleb Harris won a bronze medal in the 100-yard freestyle.

The Bearcats’ 200-yard medley relay team of Hasona in the backstroke, Harrell in the breaststroke, Waddell in the butterfly and Boutwell in the freestyle won a silver medal.

Dalton Savage won a silver medal and Haydn Griffin won a bronze medal in the 400-yard freestyle. The Bearcats’ 200-yard freestyle relay team of Boutwell, Griffin, Dalton Savage and Harrell won a silver medal.