Colony sweeps Valdez Invite

Frontiersman staff

VALDEZ — Colony High School swept the five-team Valdez Invitational swim meet Friday and Saturday at the Valdez Pool.

The Knights posted team wins in the boys, girls and combined events both days. On Friday, the Colony boys edged second-place Wasilla by 10 points, while the girls were nearly 30 points better than Valdez.

Colony was even better Saturday, winning the boys’ competition by 68 points and taking the girls’ title by 91.

Wasilla’s combined boys and girls scores were good enough for second place overall on both Friday and Saturday.

On Friday, Colony’s Katelyn Payne swam to individual victories in the 200 yard individual medley and 100 yard backstroke. Payne was also part of two winning relay teams for the Colony girls, which won the 200 yard medley, 200 yard freestyle and 400 yard freestyle relays.

The Colony boys won four events Friday, including individual victories by Rhowe Stefanski in the 100 yard butterfly and Jeffrey Frey in the 200 and 400 yard freestyle races, as well as a team victory in the 200 yard freestyle relay.

Other Colony swimmers to post individual wins included Ashley Kangas in the girls’ 200 yard freestyle and Janessa Willard in the girls’ 500 yard freestyle.

Wasilla’s Tommy Hightower and Charles Frey each had big days as well. Hightower won the boys’ 200 yard individual medley and swam on two winning relays, while Frey won the 100 yard backstroke and also was a part of two relay wins.

Caity Stigen was the big winner for the Wasilla girls, picking up individual wins in both the 100 yard butterfly and 50 yard freestyle Friday.

Palmer’s David Psenak won the boys’ 100 yard freestyle for the Moose, which placed third behind the Knights and Warriors in both days’ combined team events.

Saturday’s results were incomplete as of press time, although some individual event winners included Colony boys Rhowe Stefanski in the 50 and 100 yard freestyle, Bryan Gary (500 yard freestyle) and Jeffrey Frey (100 yard backstroke), as well as Payne in the 500 yard freestyle.

Wasilla’s Caity Stigen won the girls’ 100 yard butterfly for Wasilla Saturday, along with teammates Ilsa Schwarzburg and Hightower, who swept the boys’ and girls’ 100 yard butterfly races.

Palmer picked up event wins from Stacy Swindells in the girls’ 100 yard freestyle and Kyle Johnson, who won the boys’ 100 yard breaststroke.

Valdez Invitational

Friday-Saturday, Valdez Pool

Team scores

Friday

Combined team scores — 1. Colony, 891; 2. Wasilla, 749; 3. Palmer, 620; 4. Valdez, 458; 5. Cordova, 346.

Boys team Scores — 1. Colony, 438; 2. Wasilla, 428; 3. Palmer, 375; 4. Cordova, 316; 5. Valdez, 33.

Girls team scores — 1. Colony, 453; 2. Valdez, 425; 3. Wasilla, 321; 4. Palmer, 245; 5. Cordova, 30.

Saturday

Combined team scores — 1. Colony, 983; 2. Wasilla, 732; 3. Palmer, 630; 4. Valdez, 433; 5. Cordova, 346.

Boys team scores — 1. Colony, 488; 2. Wasilla, 420; 3. Palmer, 362; 4. Cordova, 299; 5. Valdez, 29.

Girls team scores — 1. Colony, 495; 2. Valdez, 404; 3. Wasilla, 312; 4. Palmer, 268; 5. Cordova, 47.

Friday’s event results:

Boys

200 yard medley relay — 1. Wasilla (C. Long, M. Merriam, T. Hightower, C. Frey), 1:49.25; 2. Colony, 2:01.05; 3. Palmer, 2:05.06.

200 yard freestyle — 1. Jeffrey Frey, Col, 1:52.28; 2. Christian Long, Was, 1:53.00; 3. Drew Lindow, Cdv, 2:20.

200 yard individual medley — 1. Tommy Hightower, Was, 2:15.47; 2. Charles Frey, Was, 2:21.66; 3. Derek Hammer, Cdv, 2:35.68.

50 yard freestyle — 1. Kyle Irving, Cdv, 24.45; 2. Kyle Johnson, Pal, 24.96; 3. Cory Wagner, Was, 25.69.

100 yard butterfly — 1. Rhowe Stefanski, Col, 1:04.76; 2. Kevin Snavley, Was, 1:12.30; 3. Corbyn Jahn, Col, 1:20.81.

100 yard freestyle — 1. David Psenak, Pal, 55.85; 2. Cole Beck, Val, 58.32; 3. Dylan Spargo, Was, 59.22.

500 yard freestyle — 1. Jeffrey Frey, Col, 5:09.67; 2. Benjamin Fife, Was, 6:40.35; 3. Tannere Wright-Shelton, Pal, 6:53.91.

200 yard freestyle relay — 1. Colony (J. Frey, C. Jahn, B. Gary, R. Stefanski), 1:39.85; 2. Wasilla, 1:39.96; 3. Wasilla B, 1:56.84.

100 yard backstroke — 1. Charles Frey, Was, 1:00.71; 2. Kyle Irving, Cdv, 1:02.09; 3. Cole Beck, Val, 1:06.43.

100 yard breaststroke — 1. Max Merriam, Was, 1:08.92; 2. Kyle Johnson, Pal, 1:09.80; 3. David Psenak, Pal, 1:16.01.

400 yard freestyle relay — 1. Wasilla (C. Long, T. Hightower, M. Merriam, C. Frey), 3:42.70; 2. Colony, 3:44.24; 3. Palmer, 4:14.16.

Girls

200 yard medley relay — 1. Colony (K. Payne, B. Day, C. Crombie, K. Nelson), 2:06.54; 2. Valdez, 2:06.78; 3. Valdez B, 2:21.49.

200 yard freestyle — 1. Ashley Kangas, Col, 2:28.00; 2. Christina Shattuck, Was, 2:28.32; 3. Courtney Pearcy, Val, 2:37.22.

200 yard individual medley — 1. Katelyn Payne, Col, 2:27.42; 2. Jessie McKay, Val, 2:33.88; 3. Maddie Merriam, Was, 2:47.33.

50 yard freestyle — 1. Caity Stigen, Was, 26.94; 2. Katie Nelson, Col, 27.42; 3. Rachel Halley, Val, 27.66.

100 yard butterfly — 1. Caity Stigen, Was, 1:05.79; 2. Brandi Day, Col, 1:14.95; 3. Stephanie Miner, Pal, 1:17.30.

100 yard freestyle — 1. Katie Nelson, Col, 1:04.23; 2. Stacy Swindells, Pal, 1:05.03; 3. Jillian Sanford, Val, 1:05.36.

500 yard freestyle — 1. Janessa Willard, Col, 6:43.93; 2. Ashley Kangas, Col, 6:44.31; 3. Stephanie Miner, Pal, 7:14.69.

200 yard freestyle relay — 1. Colony (K. Payne, B. Day, C. Crombie, K. Nelson), 1:51.01; 2. Valdez, 1:54.20; 3. Wasilla, 1:58.81.

100 yard backstroke — 1. Katelyn Payne, Col, 1:04.55; 2. Jessie McKay, Val, 1:08.92; 3. Rachel Halley, Val, 1:10.68.

100 yard breaststroke — 1. Jillian Sandord, Val, 1:19.17; 2. Christina Shattuck, Was, 1:23.73; 3. Ilsa Schwarzburg, was, 1:24.15.

400 yard freestyle relay — 1. Colony (H. Kelahan, J. Willard, A. Kangas, K. Miller), 4:43.97; 2. Palmer, 4:52.02; 3. Colony, 5:34.09.

Saturday’s event results

(boys’ and girls’ 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle, 200 individual medley and girls’ 50 freestyle results were unavailable)

Boys

50 yard freestyle — 1. Rhowe Stefanski, Col, 23.60; 2. Jeffrey Frey, Was, 23.71; 3. Max Merriam, 24.78.

100 yard butterfly — 1. Tommy Hightower, Was, 59.95; 2. Charles Frey, Was, 1:01.39; 3. Evans Willard, Col, 1:13.17.

100 yard freestyle — 1. Rhowe Stefanski, Col, 52.50; 2. Max Merriam, Was, 54.17; 3. Kyle Irving, Cdv, 54.43.

500 yard freestyle — 1. Bryan Gary, Col, 6:34.81; 2. Tannere Wright-Shelton, Pal, 7:00.61; 3. Steak Swanson, 7:12.51.

200 yard freestyle relay — 1. Wasilla (J. Knowles, K. Snavley, D. Spargo, C. Wagner), 1:45.50; 2. Colony, 1:47.78; 3. Cordova, 1:47.99.

100 yard backstroke — 1. Jeffrey Frey, Col, 58.86; 2. Christian Long, Was, 59.92; 3. Tommy Hightower, Was, 1:01.43.

100 yard breaststroke — 1. Kyle Johnson, Pal, 1:09.09; 2. Charles Frey, Was, 1:13.08; 3. Cory Wagner, Was, 1:16.62.

400 yard freestyle relay — 1. Wasilla (C. Long, T. Hightower, M. Merriam, C. Frey), 3:39.12; 2. Colony, 3:48.43; 3. Cordova, 4:05.92.

Girls

100 yard butterfly — 1. Caity Stigen, Was, 1:06.42; 2. Katelyn Payne, Col, 1:06.72; 3. Karina Barria, Was, 1:09.43.

100 yard freestyle — 1. Stacy Swindells, Pal, 1:05.21; 2. Heather Kelahan, Col, 1:09.50; 3. Janice Simmons, Val, 1:09.57.

500 yard freestyle — 1. Katelyn Payne, Col, 5:46.82; 2. Caity Crombie, Col, 6:08.39; 3. Christina Shattuck, Was, 6:41.20.

200 yard freestyle relay — 1. Colony (K. Nelson, B. Day, J. Willard, C. Crombie), 1:54.45; 2. Wasilla, 1:59.19; 3. Valdez, 2:04.72.

100 yard backstroke — 1. Jessie McKay, Val, 1:07.90; 2. Rachel Halley, Val, 1:11.31; 3. Maddie Merriam, Was, 1:18.51.

100 yard breaststroke — 1. Ilsa Schwarzburg, Was, 1:22.01; 2. Katie Nelson, Col, 1:27.04; 3. Genevieve Murphy, Val, 1:29.11.

400 yard freestyle relay — 1. Colony (K. Payne, B. Day, C. Crombie, K. Nelson), 4:13.91; 2. Palmer, 5:02.38; 3. Colony, 5:40.48.