Columbus North High School

February 9, 2025 - Mridula Muthukumaran won both the 200 yard individual medley and the 100 yard butterfly at the girls swimming and diving sectional at Columbus North on Saturday, qualifying her for next week’s State Finals. Muthukumaran, a sophomore, was seeded second in the IM and fifth in the butterfly after Thursday’s sectional prelims. She won the 200 yard IM by nearly three seconds and was the only swimmer to break the one-minute mark in the butterfly. North will wait until early next week to hear if any other finishers will get called back to the field of the State Finals due to their sectional performance times. Columbus North finished fourth in the 14-team sectional with 246 points. Bloomington South ran away with the team title, accumulating 503.5 points. East Central finished second with 335, and Bloomington North was third with 295. Bull Dog finishers in each event included the following 200 yard medley relay - Muthukumaran, Cora Tregoning, Sanaa Kulkarni, Brooklyn Pendleton - 3rd 200 yard freestyle - Ava Andrews 12th 200 yard individual medley - Muthukumaran - 1st, Kulkarni - 11th 50 yard freestyle - Pendleton - 6th, Abigail Proffitt - 11th 1-meter diving - Kristin Waite - 10th, Jahnavi Venugopal - 13th 100 butterfly - Muthukumaran - 1st, Kulkarni - 9th, Advika Badve - 11th 100 yard freestyle - Nandini Kondhare - 11th, Caroline Crawford - 16th 500 yard freestyle - Tregoning - 6th, Proffitt - 9th, Andrews - 10th 200 yard freestyle relay - Pendleton, Muthukumaran, Proffitt, Kulkarni - 3rd 100 yard backstroke - Crawford - 12th, Kara Buntin - 14th 100 yard breaststroke - Badve - 11th, Tregoning - 13th, Sanchita Ponnathupur - 15th 400 yard freestyle relay - Pendleton, Proffitt, Tregoning, Crawford - 4th Photo: Mridula Muthukumaran (left) celebrates with teammates after winning her second sectional swim title of the day. She won the 200 yard individual medley and the 100 yard butterfly, qualifying her for next week’s State Finals.