It was a good weekend at the 4A State championships for the girls of the Ballard High swim team as they collectively conquered fourth place.

Senior Annemarie Thayer had a particularly good weekend capturing both the 200 individual medley and the 100 backstroke and setting three All-American times.

“We had one gal with All-American times. That’s really good news,” said Coach Leo Jaeger.

The four time state champion swam the 100 backstroke in 53.82.

“That’s the best time ever seen at the 4A State Championships,” Jaeger said.

Thayer also swam in both relays with Gailyn Portelance, Galen Bond, and Luisa Chan and helped her team place second overall in the relays.

“Annemarie was just phenomenal,” Jaeger said. “She had quite the day.”

Thayer’s performance gained her the most outstanding swimmer award.

Thayer finishes her career at Ballard High with four consecutive State Champion titles in the backstroke and the Top 3 all time 4A State times. She’s committed to go to Stanford next year.

But Jeager points out that it was thanks to every girl on the team that the swimmers saw impressive results this year.

“They train together as a team to get to this place,” he said. “We’ve had a good group of girls that worked pretty hard. They did better than expected.”

“Those girls are just fantastic,” Jaeger added. “They were a great group of girls to coach.”