PULLMAN – The Cheney High School girls swimming team wrapped up a perfect Great Northern League/Central Washington Athletic Conference swimming schedule with a 90-77 win over Pullman at Washington State University’s Gibbs Pool on Oct. 26.
Asia Gere and Janie Richards led the Blackhawks with a pair of first-place finishes each. Gere won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2 minutes, 7.62 seconds and finished first in the 500 free with a time of 5:38.31.
Richards was first in the 50 free in 26.22 and first in the 100 backstroke in 1:02.35. Jade Gere took first in the 100 breaststroke in 1:14.02.
Second-place finishes went to IzzyWilliams in the 200 individual medley (2:27.70), Echo Mecklenburg in the 100 butterfly (1:10.56) and Jade Gere in the 100 free (58.24). Third-place finishes went to Mecklenburg in the 200 free, Adelyn O’Dell in the 50 and 100 free and Hope Zaragoza in the 100 backstroke.
The Blackhawks 200-freestyle relay team of O’Dell, Zaragoza, Ainsley Glennen and Mecklenburg touched the wall first, time not available. The 200 medley relay team of Richards, Jade Gere, Williams and Asia Gere was second in 2:01.35 while the 400-free team of Richards, Williams, Asia and Jade Gere was also second, time not available.
“Good swims, especially for a lot of the girls who were tapered and are not moving on to districts,” head coach Jennifer Hochwalt said in an email.
Cheney finishes with a record of 6-0-0 in league competition, 6-1-1 overall, their only loss coming in a non-league meet on Sept. 20 to 2A Lindbergh High School of Renton, 89-81. The Blackhawks return to WSU this weekend for district competition, with prelims on Friday, Nov. 1, and finals Saturday, Nov. 2.
The team then gets a couple weeks to relax and prepare for state competition, Nov. 15-16 at the King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way.
John McCallum can be reached at jmac@cheneyfreepress.com.
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