The Lady Wolves swimmers and divers won their first meet of the year last week.

Sequim took first place seven times in the 173-62 win over the Bremerton Knights at SARC on Sept. 25.

First-place finishers include 200 yard medley/200 free relay teams Dani Barrow, Jessica Craig, Jaycee Thompson-Porrazzo and Sydnee Linnane (2:17.52 and 2:04.24), Barrow in the 50 freestyle (28.95), Linnane in the 100 yard freestyle (1:04.59) and 100 yard back (1:10.49), Angela Carrillo-Burge in the 500 yard freestyle (7:23.67), and Emily Van Dyken in diving (135.7 points).

Of all the competitors, 10 Wolves cut their times in at least one event.

Barrow qualified for districts in the 100 fly and 50 free and Linnane qualified for districts in the 100 free.

Mark Pincikowski, assistant and diving coach, said this year has been an exciting one particularly for the diving team. Van Dyken is the one returning senior to the diving squad along with four new divers, but he’s seeing a lot of progress.

“She (Van Dyken) wants to show a little more pop with her dives,” Pincikowski said. “Jovelle (Dewey) and Anna (White) have eight or nine dives each and only need 11 to go to districts. They’ll be ready to compete at districts if not state this year.”

This year, Sequim divers face a disadvantage of sorts with limited practice time of 1 ½ hours Mondays-Wednesdays and 30 minutes on Thursdays and Fridays.

Pincikowski said the girls dove well on Sept. 25.

“Diving is a control issue and they have to trust me,” he said. “They have their own hurdles but have been successful.”

The girls host Port Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 2.

Correction: Molly Braaten was misidentified in the Sept. 24 issue on B-7.