Islanders stay undefeated with Inglemoor win | Prep girls swimming

Mercer Island girls swim and dive continued to roll with a 130-55 win over Inglemoor Thursday, Sept. 25 at Mary Wayte Pool.

September 30, 2014 3:58 pm
Leann Tse competes in the 200 IM during Mercer Island’s meet against Inglemoor Thursday
Leann Tse competes in the 200 IM during Mercer Island’s meet against Inglemoor Thursday

A few days after taking the top spot at the Mid Columbia Invite, the Mercer Island girls swim and dive team continued to roll with a 130-55 win over Inglemoor Thursday, Sept. 25 at Mary Wayte Pool. With the win, the Islanders remained undefeated as a team in meet competition this season.

“Today was really good, there were so many best times,” said coach Chauntelle Johnson after the meet. “We typically do a gold cap at the end of the meet, but I couldn’t even choose based off the top of my head. So many kids had so many personal best times. I’m really impressed by that today. This is a little bit ahead of where I thought we’d be at this point.”

The Islanders took the top spot in 10 of the day’s 12 events. Leah Fisk won the 200 and 500 freestyle races (1:57.6 and 5:14.13), Kristin Jradi won the 200 medley relay (1:57.2) and Leann Tse took the 200 IM (2:26.34). Hadley Michaels won the diving event over Inglemoor’s Alisa Kean, while Sabrina Kwan took the 100 freestyle (56.04), Audrey Hixon won the 100 backstroke (1:03.01) and Sofija Raisys won the 100 breaststroke (1:13.11).

Inglemoor’s Calista Skog won the 100 butterfly at 1:02.18, beating Islander Ellie Williams by just over a second, while the Vikings’ Danielle Doennebrink edged Mercer Island’s Heather Robinson by one second at 25.57 to win the 50 freestyle. Mercer Island’s team of Sammie Edwards, Sofija Raisys, Fisk and Kwan won the 200 freestyle relay (1:46.02), and the team of Fisk, Kwan, Hixon and Maeve Murdoch won the 400 freestyle relay (3:48.28).

It was another impressive showing by the reigning state champs following their Mid Columbia win the weekend prior. Competing against seven other schools from Washington and Oregon, the Islanders won six of the invitational’s 12 events and had runners-up in five of the other six.

“I’m really happy with where things are,” said Johnson. “We still have room to improve and a lot of things to get done, but you can’t do it all overnight. You’ve just got to go down the list and check things off and we’re doing a good job of doing that right now.”