Hood River swimmers off to 3-0 conference start

The HRV depth was against the difference in the meet. HRV boys won all 11 events and went 1-2 in seven of them. The Hood River girls won nine of 11 events — Centennial’s Elle Moir won the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle.

Hood River is now 3-0 in NWOC dual competition, for both boys and girls.

Maya Arndt won two individual events for the HRV girls and also swam legs on the first-place 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams. Her individual wins came in the 200 freestyle (2 minutes, 37.45 seconds) and 400 freestyle (5:35.96).

Coach Shelly Rawding’s team also received wins from Delaney Hackett, who won the 100 butterfly in 1:23.68 and 200 individual medley in 2:55.37; Leah Sandoval, who won the 100 backstroke in 1:26.12; and Ella Simms, who won the 100 breaststroke in 1:30.88.

The 100 freestyle was one of the meet’s more competitive races, with Moir winning in 1:07.38, followed by HRV’s Abby Tomlinson and Sophia Helleberg in 1:08.68 and 1:09.64.

The team relay wins came in the 200 medley from Helleberg, Simms, Sophia Cross, and Tomlinson in 2:25.56; in the 200 freestyle from Arndt, Avery Walker, Simms and Hackett in 2:17.68; and from Arndt, Hackett, Cross and Tomlinson in the 400 free relay in 4:54.98.

On the boys side, the individual event wins came from: Kaitaro Hawkins in the individual medley and butterfly; Charles Wilson in the 200 free; Elijiah Adams in the 100 free; Rohan Faber in the 400 free; Zayd Ziada in the 100 back; and Lucas Elliott in the 100 breast.

Ziada, Elliott, Hawkins and Adams teamed to win the 200 medley relay; Faber, Owen Sheppard, Forrest Hedgerg and Ziada won the 200 free relay; and Hawkins, Webster, Elliott, and Adams won the 400 free relay in 4:37.99.