Wenatchee girls swim and dive spanks competition at league championship

Moses Lurbur, Editor-in-Chief

The Wenatchee High School girls swim and dive team continued their undefeated season with an unprecedented win of 769 points at the Columbia Basin Big 9 League championships on Thursday, almost doubling the score of second place Moses Lake.

Girls swim and dive coach James Elwyn
Girls swim and dive coach James Elwyn

Aside from winning nearly every event, Wenatchee swimmers posted four state qualifying times: junior Jordan Hartley in the 200-yard free, junior Kailie Wulf in the 100 fly, senior Jessica Wierzbicki in the 50 free, and freshman Rae Anne Dressel in the 100 breastroke.

Wenatchee divers had another dominating performance as well. Sophomore Aleah Bucknum, senior Alyssa Laney, freshman Emily Brault, and sophomore Sophia Dillon took second through fifth respectively.

As the district meet quickly approaches, swimmers continue to look towards state.

“We’re focused on state more than we are on districts,” head coach James Elwyn said. “We’ll try to get some things sorted out in terms of what we can do in state and hopefully advance as many people [to state] as we can.”

Head dive coach, Nicklas Peterson was very pleased with his divers’ performance and is looking forward to districts for a chance to qualify two more divers for state.

“Hopefully we’re able to qualify our last two girls for state. I’m really hoping that they will be able to perform how they did this last week,” Peterson said. “[They dove] very consistently through the entire meet. No dives were bad, they did well on everything. It was great to see.”