Class 4A Boys State Swim and Dive Preview
The Class 4A boys state swim and dive championships will take place Friday and Saturday at the Arvada Aquatics Center. Mountain View, Loveland and Thompson Valley will all be represented.
Diving will begin the two days of competition at 10 a.m. Friday, with swimming preliminaries scheduled for 5 p.m. that day. Swim finals will then take place at 1 p.m. Saturday. The top 10 times in the prelims will qualify for the championship final while the next 10 times will swim in the consolation final.
Here is a look at all the local qualifiers and where they stack up against the rest of the field:
Mountain View
This could be one of the best showings ever at the state meet by the Mountain Lions as they are seeded top-three in all three relays while senior freestyle sprinter JJ Phillips is seeded first in both the 50 and 100 free races.
Mountain View has set school records in all three of its relays this season. The Mountain Lions are seeded second in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3 minutes, 12.79 seconds, but seven seconds behind top seed Mullin. They are also seeded third in both the 200 medley relay (1:35.53) and the 200 freestyle relay (1:28.52), behind Mullin and Glenwood Springs in both races.
Phillips, who finished third in both the 50 and 100 freestyles each of the past two seasons, is looking to finally reach the top of the podium. He has set school records in both races this season and is the top seed in both with a 20.29 in the 50 and 45.12 in the 100.
Also individually for the Mountain Lions, senior Kane Willis is seeded eighth in the 100 backstroke (53.80) and 16th in the 100 freestyle (49.40); senior Nathan Dicks is seeded ninth in the 50 freestyle (21.89) and 21st in the 100 freestyle (49.95); and senior Zac Chang is seeded 11th in the 100 butterfly (55.50) and 43rd in the 100 freestyle (52.78).
Senior Owen Kolowski is seeded ninth in the 100 breaststroke (1:01.23) and 20th in the 200 individual medley (2:05.04); junior Cooper Farland is seeded 21st in the 50 freestyle (22.53) and 22nd in the 100 freestyle (49.98); and sophomore Jackson Willard is seeded 21st in the 100 backstroke (57.35).
Senior Sawyer Ingraham is seeded 27th in the 50 freestyle (22.64) and 49th in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.61); freshman Justice Madonna is seeded 31st in the 100 breaststroke (1:05.87) and 42nd in the 200 IM (2:15.67); and junior Omar Macias-Mendoza is seeded 50th in the 100 butterfly (1:00.28).
Mountain View also has one diver in that event. Senior Carter Vining enters the competition with a season-best 11-dive score of 307.15.
Loveland
The Red Wolves’ individual qualifiers are led by senior Alex Patricelli, who is seeded fifth in the 50 freestyle (21.20). Loveland has two other qualifiers in that event, with senior Evan Phillips seeded seventh (21.40) and senior Brogan Reed 35th (22.97).
Also for Loveland, senior Will Schneider is seeded 20th in the 100 butterfly (56.45) and 25th in the 100 breaststroke (1:03.98); freshman Calvin Lee is seeded 30th in the 200 freestyle (1:54.61) and 36th in the 100 backstroke (59.77); and freshman Brooks Rehnberg is seeded 37th in the 500 freestyle (5:31.64).
The Red Wolves qualified all three of their relays. They are seeded ninth in the 200 freestyle relay (1:30.39), 18th in the 200 medley relay (1:42.89) and 18th in the 400 freestyle relay (3:29.56).
Thompson Valley
The Eagles also qualified all three of their relays to the state meet. They are seeded 24th in the 200 medley relay (1:49.36), 28th in the 200 freestyle relay (1:41.83) and 28th in the 400 freestyle relay (3:48.27).
Thompson Valley’s individual qualifiers are all sophomores. Cooper Christensen is seeded 17th in the 100 breaststroke (1:01.88) and 46th in the 200 IM (2:16.28). Nick Weimer is seeded 40th in the 100 backstroke (1:01.30).
CHSAA does not seed divers, but Thompson Valley’s Nathaniel Chou has the eighth-best 11-dive score in 4A with the 437.45 he put up in his second-place finish at the Northern League meet last Saturday.
