SLIDESHOW: SHS SWIMMING: Record-setting races set pace entering state
Published 3:47 pm Monday, November 8, 2010
Sumner High swimmers set three West Central District 2A meet records Thursday and Friday at Hazen High.
What more could a coach ask for, Dana Powers posed.
“We have state left,” she answered. And she promised a lot more incredible swims and informed Spartan fans they haven’t seen anything yet.
The Spartans will take sevento state. Preliminaries are scheduled for 5 p.m. Thursday at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way with finals set for 1:45 p.m. Friday. The Spartans finished 10th last year as a Class 3A team.
The Spartans finished second 23 points behind Interlake during the recent WCD meet at Hazen.
Sami Hendricks set the pace Thursday night during preliminary competition with a meet-record 24.97-second finish in the 50-yard freestyle. Friday, the Spartan junior won the finals with a time of 25.24.
Hendricks also won the 100 freestyle with a time of 55:42.
Freshman Madison Munger sprinted to a meet record and first-place finish in the 100 butterfly in 1:01.93. She also won the 200 individual medley with a state time of 2:15.89.
Munger and Hendricks teamed with Ashley Huynh and Emma Thompson to set a meet record in the 200 freestyle relay with a blistering 1:45.25.
The foursome also finished second in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:57.36.
Huynh, a sophomore, will also make the trip to state after in the 100 breaststroke after a close finish. Huynh took second in 1:13.08.
Thompson finished second in the 100 backstroke for a spot at state. In another close race, the senior who posted a 1:05.63 finished .17 second behind Maddie Hagen of Interlake. She also earned a spot in the 100 butterfly after a sixth-place finish.
The Spartans will also take its 400 freestyle relay, which finished third. Elizabeth Martin, Kallan Gustafson, Alicia Ditty and Thompson raced to a 4:01.38 time.
A handful of Sumner swimmers earned a spot at state through the allocation system after the district meet.
Huynh and Gustafson finished fifth and seventh respectively in the 200 freestyle for a spot at the state meet. Gustafson raced her best 500 freestyle of the season and slipped into the No. 7 spot and a state allocation.
Ditty earned a spot with her seventh-place 200 IM finish and a fifth-place finish in the 100 backstroke. Martin will go after a sixth-place finish in the 50 freestyle.
In the water, senior Katie Ekse dropped three second off her best time with a 1:19.66 preliminary time in the 100 breaststroke. Out of the pool, the International Baccalaureate student at Sumner High, earned academic recognition for her 3.75 grade-point average.
