PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles and Sequim swimmers and divers competed in the divisional invitation at William Shore Memorial Pool.
The meet, held Tuesday, serves as the last chance to qualify for postseason competition.
Smit Kataria qualified for districts for Port Angeles in the 100-yard backstroke with a sixth-place finish.
The Roughriders posted two additional district qualifying swim times at the divisional invitational.
Wei-Yan Fu won in the 500 freestyle with a time of five minutes, 29.19 seconds.
Nathan Bock also will swim at the district meet after finishing fourth in the 100 back.
Port Angeles divers completed their second 11-dive format meet.
Scott Methner qualified for the state championships by winning the 1-meter dive with a score of 328.30 points.
David Jensen was third with 281.15 points to qualify for districts.
Port Angeles’ 400 free relay also qualified for state with a time of 3:32.14. Relay members are: Karsten Hertzog, Wei-Yan Fu, Cameron Butler, and Tristin Butler.
The Roughriders have nine athletes qualified for post season participation at the district championships.
They also will be swimming all three relays at the meet.
Sequim swimmers cut times, but none were able to advance to the district meet.
The Wolves will be represented at districts by diver Matthew Craig.
Craig finished second in the 1-meter dive with 310.8 points.
“Liam Payne had a fantastic race in the 100 breaststroke,” Sequim coach Linda Moats said.
“He has been suffering with a cold, so we weren’t sure how he would do today, but he swam so well, that he dropped 3.3 seconds of his best time that was achieved just a week and a half ago.”
Payne placed fourth.
Moats said the Wolves will submit his time for a wild-card entry to the district meet.
The district championships are held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 12-13.
The diving competition is held at Auburn High School starting at 4 p.m. Friday.
The swimming competition is held at Hazen High School in Renton.
Friday’s preliminaries start at 10 a.m., while Saturday’s finals start at noon.
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Compiled using team reports.
