Despite some solid times, the Sumner Spartans succumbed to Enumclaw and Fife in its away meets Sept. 13 and Thursday. They finished 101-79 against Enumclaw and 93-77 against Fife.
“The team score this week wasn’t the best,” coach Dana Powers wrote in an e-mail to the team. “However we had some good swims!”
The week’s state qualifying times came from Sami Hendricks and Madison Munger.
At Enumclaw, Hendricks had a 200-yard freestyle time of 2:04.28 and a 100-yard fly time of 1:05.74. At Fife, her 500-yard freestyle time was 5:43.06.
Munger qualified at Enumclaw with a 200-yard freestyle time of 2:05.10. At Fife, she blew through the 200-yard IM with 2:21.45.
District qualifiers for the week were Alicia Ditty, Kallan Gustafson, Ashley Huynh and Munger.
Ditty qualified in the 50-yard freestyle, twice in the 100-yard backstroke and again in the 200-yard IM.
Gustafson qualified in the 100-yard, 200-yard, and 500-yard freestyle, and in the 200-yard IM.
Huynh qualified twice in the 100-yard breaststroke, and twice again in the 200-yard IM.
Munger qualified in the 100-yard backstroke.
Other swimmers had major improvements in their swim times.
Alejandra Castro dropped more than six seconds in the 200-freestyle against Fife.
Kristen Easterly’s drops brought jaws down with them, with a more than 11-second drop in the 100-yard breaststroke and more than 22 seconds in the 100-yard fly.
Ashleigh Johnson dropped nearly 2 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle, just short of 4 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle, slightly more than 3 seconds in the 100-yard backstroke, and an astounding 19 seconds in her 100-yard breaststroke time.
Kallan Gustafson dropped more than half a second in the 100-yard freestyle and nearly four seconds in 200-yard IM.
Ashley Huynh dropped nearly 5 seconds in the 200 IM.
Carrie Miller dropped more than 5 seconds in the 100-yard breaststroke.
Nicole Stoneback posted her best times in the 50-yard freestyle with a 32.08, 1:30.65 in the 100-yard freestyle and 1:21.49 in the 100-yard backstroke.
The girls are away again this week, swimming at Eatonville today, Wednesday.
