Orginally posted on Kingwood Now:
The Kingwood High School Swimming and Diving Team cruised to a first place finish in District 19-5A competition on Feb. 6 at Atascocita High School.
The top six swimmers in each individual event qualified for the Region V meet Feb. 12-13 at the University of Houston.
Kingwood racked up the points winning all the relays. The Mustang girls set district records in the 200 yard medley relay (Jillian Vitarius, Merritt Krawczyk, Dannye Osburn and Jamie Friderichs), the 200 yard freestyle relay (Osburn, Friderichs, Kim Summers and Michelle Gean) and the 400 yard freestyle relay (Summers, Krawczyk, Vitarius, Gean).
Medals were awarded for the top three individual finishers. The Kingwood girls swept up all the medals in each race. Taking one, two and three respectively were: 200 yard freestyle (Summers, Vitarius, Rachel Berude); 200 yard individual medley (Krawczyk, Danielle Meara, Rachel Martin); 50 yard freestyle (Friderichs, Osburn and Shannen Wehrman); 100 yard butterfly (Osburn, Wehrman, Martin); 100 yard freestyle (Gean, Berude, Friderichs); 500 freestyle (Summers, Caitlyn Luhrs, Rachel Lu); 100 yard backstroke (Vitarius, Gean, Lisa Swank); and 100 yard breaststroke (Krawczyk, Meara, Kathryn Hartwig). Freshman Vitarius was named female swimmer of the meet.
The boys accomplished a medal sweep in the 500 freestyle (Jones, Mitch Glander, Blake Briscoe) and 100 backstroke (Ryan Glander, Hayden Polenz, Robert Harrison). Jones added a silver medal in the 200 IM with Briscoe taking the bronze. The Mustang boys went one-two in the 50 freestyle (Austin Wilson, Kyle Sorge) and 200 freestyle (Ryan Glander, Will Oswald). Wilson was also district champion in the 100 free with Polenz in third. Medalists in the 100 breaststroke were Taylor Kneisley with a silver and Evan Dalton with a bronze. Steve Ciliske earned a bronze medal in the 100 butterfly.
In diving competition, junior Loren Figueroa won the 1 meter event – just missing the district record she set in 2007.
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