FEDERAL WAY — Port Angeles swimmers earned a sixth-place finish and set two school records at the Class 2A state swimming and diving championships at the King County Aquatic Center.
The Roughriders’ 200 medley relay team of Taylor Beebe, Carter Juskevich, Jaine Macias and Sierra Hunter put together a new school-best time of 1 minute, 54.20 seconds while finishing fourth in Saturday’s finals.
The quartet also ended up sixth in the 200 free relay with a time of 1:43.93.
Juskevich led Port Angeles with the top individual performance of any Riders’ competitor.
The senior came in third in the 100 breaststroke, setting a new school record after finishing with a time of 1:06.22.
Juskevich also finished fifth in the 200 freestyle (2:00.36).
Jaine Macias also fared well for Port Angeles after taking home a fourth-place finish in the 100 breast and coming in sixth in the 100 butterfly.
Cassii Middlestead earned 306.05 points and finished sixth in the 1-meter diving event for the Riders.
Hunter placed in two state events.
She was 11th in the 200 individual medley (2:22.46) and 14th in the 500 free (5:42.75).
The 400 free relay team of Ashlee Seely, Kylee Reid, Sarah Tiemersma and Erin Edwards ended up 11th with a time of 4:01.87.
Those not making it out of preliminary competitions included Beebe who was 20th in the 100 free and 21st in the 100 backstroke.
Edwards came in 20th in the 200 free and 21st in the 500 free and Reid was 19th in the 200 individual medley.
Divers Sydney Miner and Lum Fu did not move after coming in 16th and 17th, respectively in the 1-meter dive preliminaries.
Port Angeles had the highest state finish of any Olympic League school.
Port Townsend finished 19th as a team competing against the larger 2A schools.
Chloe Rogers had the best individual finishes, coming in 11th in the 50 free and 14th in the 100 free.
Corinne Pierson broke her own school records in the preliminaries of the 100 fly (1:06.68) and the 100 back (1:04.90).
She was unable to improve on those times in the finals, coming in 11th in the 100 back (1:05.27) and 16th in the 100 fly (1:08.55).
Pierson and Rogers joined with Camille Ottaway and Ismay Gale to help the Redhawks’ 200 medley relay team to a 15th place finish with a time of 2:04.10.
Emily Harrenstein, Gale, Pierson and Rogers also teamed to finish 12th in the 400 free relay (4:04.59).
Sequim’s lone state competitor, Sydnee Linnane bowed out after finishing 18th in the 100 back preliminaries.
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Compiled using team reports.
