Washington State held their annal 2A Men’s High School Swimming Championships February 21-22, 2014. The Archbishop Murphy men won with a total of 185 points to narrowly beat Anacortes who finished with 178 points.
The Steilacoom men won the first event of the meet, the 200y medley relay in 1:397.79 to give them 40 points. The scoring team at the state meet was a veteran team, made up of all high school seniors besides sophomore James Scott. Hockinson finished behind them in 1:41.22 followed by Lindbergh in 1:41.46.
Archbishop Murphy junior swimmer Austin Barnard won the men’s 200y freestyle in 1:44.68. Barnard was well ahead of the field; second place finisher Jaycob Davies touched the wall in 1:47.62.
Steven Body took home another gold medal for the Archbishop Murphy men by winning the 200y IM. Body swam a 1:52.01 to set a new AAC State record. Body absolutely blew away his competition, beating second place finisher James Buchanan by over eight seconds. The Lindbergh swimmer grabbed the silver in 2:00.69 followed by Jonah Rodewald in 2:00.88.
Lindbergh stepped up from that silver medal and took home a big win in the 50y freestyle as Andrew Franco-Munoz took home the gold in a swift 21.17. With that win Franco-Munoz broke the previous meet record of 21.45 set last year by Alec Bernard. Franco-Munoz also swam the fly split on the Lindbergh bronze medal 200y medley relay. Later on in the meet Franco-Munoz struck again for Lindbergh taking home his second gold with a win in the 100y freestyle. Franco-Munoz posted a new meet record of 46.60 to win the event.
Archbishop Murphy won the first diving event of the meet by a small margin as Elliott Forde beat Sumner’s David Kakuk by just 0.15 points. Forde finished first overall with 372 points, Kakuk second with 371.85. David Whitmore from Naches Valley finished third with 357.45.
In the 100y fly Steilacoom’s Benjamin Scott came very close to the meet record, and broke an AAC State record of 50.61 with a time of 50.34. That swim gave Scott his second gold of the meet after he led off the winning 200y medley relay with a 23.90 backstroke split. Winner of the 200y freestyle, Austin Barnard, finished second in 52.28. Scott also went home with a gold in the 100y backstroke after finishing in a new AAC State record and meet record of 51.19.
Stephen Boden won the 500y freestyle in 4:34.81 to set a new AAC State record. With that win Boden gave Archbishop Murphy their fourth gold of the meet, putting them in the lead.
Lake Washington and Lindbergh finished in a dead-heat for gold in the 200y freestyle relay, both posting a time of 1:30.80. Lindbergh was behind going into the last 50, but anchor Andrew Franco-Munoz threw down the fastest split of the day in 20.90 to tie it up. That win gave Franco-Munoz his third gold, and fourth medal of the meet.
Sophomore James Scott from Steilacoom won the 100y breaststroke in 59.56 making him the only swimmer in the field to crack the one-minute barrier. Prosser senior Will Burgett picked up the silver way back in 1:02.22.
The Anacortes men won the last event on the schedule, the 400y freestyle relay. The Anacortes men put together a 3:21.56 to narrowly beat the Archbishop Murphy men by 17 one-hundredths. Austin Barnard threw down a 48.34 anchor split, the fastest of the meet, to try to catch up to Anacortes but simply ran out of pool.
With the final event complete, the Archbishop Murphy men were on the top of the rankings with 185 points followed by Anacortes with 178 and Steilacoom with 172.
For full meet results click here.
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