SLIDESHOW: Bullfrogs red hot, but Chief Sealth gets first swimmers to qualify for district championships
SLIDESHOW: Bullfrogs red hot, but Chief Sealth gets first swimmers to qualify for district championships
Jhonry Reynoso, qualified for the district championships in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1.06.00 seconds and the Metro championships in the 100-yard butterfly.
Anastasia Stepankowsky
Fri, 01/16/2015
By Anastasia Stepankowsky
Chief Sealth swimmers Austin Burnham and Jhonry Reynoso qualified for the district championships, but there wasn’t too much else for the combined Chief Sealth/West Seattle to celebrate in Friday’s meet against Garfield High School.
Bullfrog swimmers won all 11 events at the Southwest Pool. The results aren’t surprising, as Garfield dropped down from 4A to 3A for the 2014-2015 school year.
Burnham qualified for districts in the 100-yard breaststroke, shaving .44 off his time to clock an even 1.13.00. He also qualified for the Metro Championships in the 200-yard-IM, improving by a little over seven seconds.
Reynoso qualified for districts in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1.06.00 seconds and the Metro championships in the 100-yard butterfly.
“It felt really good to actually make it,” Reynoso said about his district qualifying time in the backstroke.
He said he still needs to speed up his arm stroke and improve his kicking technique. If he takes another nine seconds off his time in the 100-yard breaststroke, Reynoso will qualify for the state championships.
Other Chief Sealth team members had solid performances as well. Ethan Tuchscherer took off a little over eight seconds in the 100-yard freestyle to qualify for the Metro Conference Championships. Elliot Nichols also qualified for the Metro Conference Championships in the 100-yard backstroke even though he has not competed in the event all season.
“I think they’re getting more serious about the meets, and they all swam even harder this time than the last time,” Chief Sealth head swimming coach Teresa Faulkner said. “…I think they’re really looking to Metros and districts for going there,”
Burnham and Reynoso are the only team members who have district-qualifying times so far.
“Whenever we’re swimming we’ll have fun with it, and it doesn’t matter what place we get as long as we’re enjoying this team together,” Reynoso said.
The combined Chief Sealth/West Seattle team’s next match-up is against Roosevelt at Evans Pool at 3:30 p.m. Friday.
