MLHS swim team takes districts
REBECCA PETTINGILL | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 4 years, 1 month AGO
MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake High School girls swimming and dive team excelled at the Girls High School Swim Districts during the weekend.
“It was the best day! We broke records, got state times, plenty of PRs and won the meet,” head coach Lindy Tracey said.
The Lady Chiefs came out on top in the district meet with 540 team points, 43 points above Eastmont High School, which came in second place. The Lady Chiefs were undefeated all season and are adding the championship to their list of achievements.
Moses Lake had two relay teams take first place at districts, both also achieving state qualifying times. Both teams were made up of senior Laurel Knox, freshman Julia Heaps, junior Makhaela Parrish and sophomore Issabelle Parrish. In the 400-yard freestyle relay, their time was three minutes, 42.11 seconds, and in the 200-yard freestyle relay, one minute, 40.54 seconds.
The following are the top Lady Chiefs placers at districts for each swimming category:
200-yard freestyle:
Senior Laurel Knox placed first with a time of one minute, 57.07 seconds, which was a state qualifying time.
Junior Makhaela Parrish placed second with a time of one minute, 58.49 seconds, which was a state qualifying time.
Junior Madeline O’Neil placed fourth with a time of two minutes, 11.48 seconds.
200-yard individual medley:
Freshman Julia Heaps took first place with a time of two minutes, 21.18 seconds.
Junior Aniston Dana placed second with a time of two minutes, 23.41 seconds.
Freshman Alli Hines placed fourth with a time of two minutes, 28.32 seconds.
50-yard freestyle:
Sophomore Issabelle Parrish took first place with a time of 24.55 seconds, which was a state qualifying time.
Freshman Kathryn Duvall placed fifth with a time of 26.74 seconds.
100-yard butterfly:
Junior Lydia Jensen took third with a time of one minute, 7.54 seconds.
100-yard freestyle:
Sophomore Issabelle Parrish placed first with a time of 54.03 seconds, which was a state qualifying time.
Sophomore Keera Michie placed fourth with a time of one minute, .21 seconds.
Senior Tessa Bowen placed eighth with a time of one minute, 7.53 seconds.
500-yard freestyle:
Senior Laurel Knox came in first place with a time of five minutes, 12.60 seconds, which was a state qualifying time. Knox’s time also beat a five minute, 15.28-seconds record held since 2015 by Hannah VanHeyningen of Wenatchee.
Junior Makhaela Parrish took second with a time of five minutes, 20.96 seconds, which was a state qualifying time. Sophomore Keera Michie took third with a time of five minutes, 55.81 seconds.
Sophomore Annika Burke took fifth with a time of six minutes, 3.41 seconds.
100-yard backstroke:
Freshman Julia Heaps took first place with a time of one minute, 2.72 seconds.
Freshman Alli Hines placed second with a time of one minute, 6.61 seconds.
Junior Lydia Jensen placed third with a time of one minute, 8.84 seconds.
Freshman Abigail O’Neil took fifth place with a time of one minute, 15.32 seconds.
100-yard breaststroke:
Freshman Kathryn Duvall took second place with a time of 13 seconds.
Junior Madeline O’Neil placed fifth with a time of one minute, 19.93 seconds.
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Girls State Swim and Dive competition is Nov. 12-13 in Federal Way.
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