Spartans send 13 swimmers on to WIAA state tournament

The Sumner Spartans are statebound after placing fifth at the 2A West Central District III boys swim and dive meet held Friday and Saturday. The Spartans earned an overall score of 177 at the meet.

The Sumner Spartans are statebound after placing fifth at the 2A West Central District III boys swim and dive meet held Friday and Saturday. The Spartans earned an overall score of 177  at the meet.

Josh Goodsell, Cooper Dyson, David Kakuk, Bryce Corrigan, Cameron Retzlaff, Hunter Molen, Devin Drobny and Cooper Dyson all qualified to compete at the King County Aquatic Center this weekend.

Goodsell placed fifth in the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle races.

Dyson, placed fourth in both the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle.

Kakuk and Corrigan placed third and fourth in the diving event. Kakuk remained in a top spot throughout the competition, but Corrigan clawed his way up from a 10th place spot with a strong showing in his finals.

Retzlaff, Molen, Drobny and Dyson will represent the Spartans in the 200-yard freestyle relay.

The 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relay teams were both wild-carded into the state meet. Those relay teams are rostered by Thomas Oliver, Stephen Bone, Jordan Landes, Grant Selmer and Zach Traufler.

Other swimmers who wild-carded into the state tournament on the strength of their individual times were Severn Anderson, Chase Lawrence, Hunter Molen and Austin Page.

The 2A teams will be the first to swim for Friday preliminaries and Saturday finals. The facility opens at 7:30 a.m. Friday and 8:30 a.m. Saturday.