Cheney girls grab district title, seventh at state - 2019 sports top 10 year-in-review

Veteran Cheney High School swimming head coach Jennifer Hochwalt knew she had some special girls at the beginning of the 2019 fall season.

“The amazing thing was everybody came in this season and everybody can swim so we’re really coming in from more of a training standpoint,” Hochwalt said in September. “The nice thing is that our new kids are really already at where (last year’s) team was at mid-season.”

The Blackhawks proved the accuracy of that statement and then some.

Cheney did several things no girls — or boys swimming team for that matter — had ever done. They not only went unbeaten in...