Sports
Northwest Swim and Dive Team Competes at Metros
The Jaguars boys and girls teams placed 23rd and tenth respectively.
The swim and dive team competed in the Metropolitan Swimming and Diving Championship on Saturday at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center.
Overall, the Boys finished 23rd, with a score of 33 points. the Gonzaga boys finished first with 395 points. The Girls finished strongly in tenth place, with a score of 122 points. Walt Whitman took first for the girls with 407 points.
The boys 400 free team placed 17th in the final round, with a time of 3:26.53 minutes. In the 200 free relay, the Jaguar boys team finished in 1:33.95 minutes, to rank 15th in the finals. In the boys 500 free final, Peter Bajorek placed 19th, with a time of 4:53.17 minutes. Alex Wu placed 19th in the 100 fly, coming in at 54.83 seconds. He also swam the 50 free in 22.44 seconds, placing 12th.
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The Girls 200 frees relay team placed seventh in the finals, with a time of 1:41.80 minutes. Grace Choung swam the 100 free in 56.19 seconds and the 100 backstroke in 1:01.45 minutes. Sophomore Mackenzi Cornell scored 304.40 points for the Jags, in the Girls 1 Meter Diving event. The Northwest Girls 400 free relay team finished 17th in the finals, with a time of 3:49.50 minutes. The Jaguar girls 200 medley relay team finished eighth, with a time of 1:54.30 minutes. Sophomore Grace Dai swam the 200 free in 1:57.88 minutes, to place 12th in the finals.
Dai, who swam in four events, said she expected to qualify for Metros this year. The sophomore, who trains three hours a day in addition to team practice, attributed hard work and her teammates' support to her success.
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"I think it's just practicing really hard, and a lot of my teammates supported me in making sure that I'm swimming fast today,” Dai said. “I know that I can swim fast now, because I've got so many people supporting me."
Fourth-year coach Amy Spady was impressed with the day's results.
"I think they did really well. We have a really young boys team, so we had a couple who made it back to finals. But that was good, because we don't have a single senior," Spady said. "The girls team has a lot of depth. We had a lot of girls who made it back. Our relays all were either in the final heat, or one of the top places in the semi-finals."
