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Former Lemon-Monroe High School swimmer Krista Wray has a lot to look forward to in 2009. Wray, who holds the school record in five individual and three relay events, is less than a month away from her wedding date and two months from resuming her education.
Varsity days
Wray, who started swimming competitively at age nine, was a four-time state qualifier at Lemon-Monroe. She specialized in the 100 yard freestyle and 100 yard butterfly events for her first three years before switching to the 200 and 500 free for her senior season. The moved paid off as she recorded her highest finish in four state appearances, finishing fifth in the 200 in 1 minute, 54.95 seconds at the 2003 Division II State Championship meet. She also qualified in the 500 and placed ninth in 5:11.00. Both times were personal and school records.
“It was a pretty great gamble,” Wray said. “I did pretty well in both events.”
Wray also left Lemon-Monroe as the record holder in the 200 individual medley (2:15.05), 100 fly (1:00.46) and 100 free (54.36) and was a member of school record setting teams in the 200 and 400 freestyle relay and 200 medley relay events.
She was also a member of the Cincinnati Torpedoes, a club swimming team based out of Countryside YMCA in Lebanon. During her last two seasons, Wray worked with current Torpedoes head coach Brad Isham.
“He was the most phenomenal coach I’ve ever swam under,” Wray said. “I was very blessed to swim for him my last two years.”
Today
Wray, 24, graduated from the Cincinnati School for Medical Massage in 2007 and has been working as a Massage Therapist since passing her state boards in January of 2008. She currently resides in Trenton.
Wray is engaged to Ryan Montgomery, whom she met at the Field Sports Arena in Monroe through a former neighbor. The couple is scheduled to be married Aug. 15. After the wedding, Wray is going to return to school at Sinclair Community College in Dayton and enter the Physical Therapy Assistant program.
Quotable
“I loved swimming. I met a lot of awesome people and had a lot of great opportunities to travel at such a young age. I wouldn’t change that for anything.” — Wray
— Dan Gedney, Staff Writer