Two meets in and more girls continue to set personal records and find district-qualifying times for the Lady Wolves swim team.
Despite an 86-84 loss to Olympic on Sept. 20, the Wolves had an amazing meet, head coach Anita Benitez said.
“I can’t believe how much work the girls have been doing in practice and how much it is paying off for us,” she said.
Sequim’s 200 medley A team of Isa Benitez, Sonja Govertsen, Sydnee Linnane and Anna Miehe dropped two seconds from their district-qualifying time to 2:07.40 and are within 5 seconds of a state-qualifying time.
Miehe, a German-exchange student, swam 2:16.98 in the 200 free for a district qualifying time of 2:25.00, and Govertson qualified in the 100 fly at 1:11.24, and is within 7 seconds of a state-qualifying time. The 200 free relay B team of Benitez, Joie Darminio, Stephanie Grow and Meguire Vander Velde qualified for districts at 2:01.48, too.
The 400 free relay team B also qualified while two other relays maintained or dropped a few seconds off their existing swim times. Linnane also swam another 4 seconds off her 100 backstroke time to 1:09.40 and is within 3 seconds of a state-qualifying time.
Overall, nearly 20 girls set personal records in at least one event.
Eight girls, with the fastest relay times so far — Benitez, Miehe, Govertson, Linnane, Darminio, Jasmine Itti, Vander Velde and Sydney Swanson — were invited to the Swimviational event on Sept. 24 in Bremerton. Govertson swam to district-qualifying time in the 50 freestyle and every girl cut time in at least one individual event or relay.
Sequim swims next on Sept. 29 in Bremerton at the Jarstad Aquatic Pool.