Felicia Che swimming her leg of the 4x100 relay that placed second at the district meet Saturday in Bremerton. Other relay members were Nadia Cole, Maggie Martin and Kiara Schmitt. (Patti Reifenstahl)

Felicia Che swimming her leg of the 4x100 relay that placed second at the district meet Saturday in Bremerton. Other relay members were Nadia Cole, Maggie Martin and Kiara Schmitt. (Patti Reifenstahl)

DISTRICT SWIMMING: Port Angeles girls third, Sequim seventh

RENTON — Several more Port Angeles girls qualified for the state 2A swim meet with their performances at the West-Central District III 2A swim meet at Hazen High School.

Nadia Cole had a strong showing for the Roughriders, finished second in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2 minutes, 14.72 seconds and second in the 100 breastroke with a time of 1:09.96. The Roughriders’ 400 freestyle relay team (Felicia Che, Maggie Martin, Kiara Schmitt and Cole) also finished second with a time of 3:49.44.

Port Angeles finished a close third at district. North Kitsap won with 303 points, while Lindbergh was second at 187.5. Port Angeles was third at 170 and Sequim seventh at 89. Port Townsend was 14th with 19 points.

The top six places at state automatically qualified for state.

Other Riders qualifying or allocated for state include:

200 Medley relay (Schmitt, Cole, Che and Emma Murray), third, 1:56.76.

200 freestyle — Martin, sixth, 2:08.26

200 individual medley — Che, fifth, 2:17.69

50 freestyle — Schmitt, sixth, 26.31

1 meter diving — Anne Edwards, fourth, 267.30 points.

100 butterfly — Che, fifth, 1:02.19

500 freestyle — Martin, fourth, 5:44.24 (She had already qualified with a state time in the preliminaries)

Sequim’s Sonja Govertsen had a pair of second-place finishes.

She finished second in the 50 freestyle with a time of 25.24 seconds and second in the 100 freestyle with a time of 55.81 seconds.

The Wolves’ Mia Coffman was second in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:30.10, shaving seven seconds off her previous personal-best.

Coffman was also fourth in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:05.38, good for state and another personal-best swim.

The Sequim 200 freestyle relay of Govertsen, Jasmine Itti, Sidney Swanson and Coffman was third with a time of 1:46.32.

Sequim’s 200 medley relay team of Coffman, Swanson, Govertsen and Itti was seventh with a time of 2:01.04. This relay team already had a state-qualifying time.

Wild card allocations of swimmers should be announced today.

Crescent’s Aubrie Scott finished 10th in the diving with 121.85 points.

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