The 2024-25 The Dalles swim team. Back row, from left to right: coach Pat Shortt, coach Nate Timmons, Aiden Nunez, Adele Black, Everest Lenardson, Kaiya Doty, Rowena Benjamin, Rhett Loughmiller, and coach Shea Macnab. Front row, from left to right: Jesus Chavez, Sawyer Dray, Vicky Gonzalez, Alaina Casady, Riley Elliot, Laura Black, Lillen Vaught, Maverick Varland and Cruz Peral.
The 2024-25 The Dalles swim team. Back row, from left to right: coach Pat Shortt, coach Nate Timmons, Aiden Nunez, Adele Black, Everest Lenardson, Kaiya Doty, Rowena Benjamin, Rhett Loughmiller, and coach Shea Macnab. Front row, from left to right: Jesus Chavez, Sawyer Dray, Vicky Gonzalez, Alaina Casady, Riley Elliot, Laura Black, Lillen Vaught, Maverick Varland and Cruz Peral.
THE DALLES — The Dalles High Riverhawks 16-member boys and girls swim team recorded a combined 15 victories at a Class 4A Special District 1 swim meet Jan. 16 at Seaside.
Led by two-event individual winners Kaiya Doty and Adele Black, the Riverhawk girls’ squad took first place in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 2 minutes, 3.87 seconds. Doty combined with teammates Lillen Vaught, Adele Black and Laura Black to get the relay victory over Seaside (2:12.78).
Doty won the 100 breaststroke (1:22.41), with senior teammate Alaina Casady taking third place (1:45.34). Doty also won the 100 butterfly (1:20.17). Doty competes in two winter sports simultaneously, as she also is on the Riverhawk ski team.
Freshman Adele Black won the 100 free (1:17.58), and junior teammate Victoria Gonzalez was third (1:23.55). Adele Black won the 50 free (34.13). Vaught took first place in the 200 individual medley (2:54.24) and was second in the 100 backstroke (1:21.05). Laura Black was third in the 100 back (1:30.70).
The trio of sophomores Rhett Loughmiller, Maverick Varland and junior Everest Lenardson helped the boys squad swim to nine wins, 14 top-three finishes, and they also won all three relays. Loughmiller, Varland and Lenardson each recorded four wins, including two individual event victories each.
The trio combined with sophomore Sawyer Dray to win the 200 medley relay (2:03.76) and the 200 free relay (1:44.21). The quartet of juniors Aiden Nunez, Jesus Chavez, Kaedyn Linker and Cruz Peral swam to first place in the 400 free relay (5:05.52). Loughmiller recorded individual wins in the 200 IM (2:31.52) and the 100 back (1:08.29), followed by Dray in second place in the 100 back (1:25.21).
Varland won the 200 free (2:31.29) and he also swam to first place in the 100 fly (1:15.80). Lenardson won the 100 breast (1:17.64) and the 500 free (6:05.89).
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