Don’t plan on swimming Friday night or Saturday afternoon at Augustus Brown Swimming Pool.<\/p>\n
There’ll be Wolves, Falcons and Crimson Bears thrashing through the water.<\/p>\n
The Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain High School swim and diving teams’ first two meets are Friday and Saturday at the downtown pool. Sitka, Ketchikan and Petersburg will also be in attendance.<\/p>\n
The Friday meet starts at 6 p.m. while the Saturday meet begins at 2 p.m. It’s the first of four dual meets this season before the Region V championships in Juneau in late October.<\/p>\n
The JDHS girls and TMHS boys placed first at last year’s regional meet. The two Juneau teams went on to win a combined three relays in the ASAA\/First National Bank Alaska State Swimming Championships.<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears girls team finished second and Falcons boys third at the final meet.<\/p>\n
Senior Andyn Mulgrew-Truitt and junior Cameron Howard remain from the state-winning JDHS relays this season. However, all four legs of TMHS’ 200 medley relay will be back in the water this year.<\/p>\n
“They’re pretty determined to crush some state records in relay events and take second or first at state this year,” TMHS coach Josiah Loseby said of his boys team.<\/p>\n
Bergen Davis, Noatak Post, Spencer Holt and Chris Ray — all then-sophomores — helped the Falcons rise just above Soldotna in the final standings, 62-61, for third place at the state meet.<\/p>\n
The Fab Four are moving on to the next challenge.<\/p>\n
“Looking at the times they have and the records that are set already — even if they’re not fully swimming at their highest potential at that state meet — they’re still going to crush the state record in at least one of those relays,” Loseby said.<\/p>\n
High school swimming sanctions three relays: the 200 medley, 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle.<\/p>\n
Over in the Juneau-Douglas waters, Mulgrew-Truitt, one of only three seniors on the team, has three goals for the season: improve her times, narrow down her college search and enjoy the team.<\/p>\n
“We’re all pretty much family,” Mulgrew-Truitt said of the team. “I’ve been swimming with pretty much all these guys since I was 5.”<\/p>\n
The senior’s even befriended some of her Southeast competition. Last season, Mulgrew-Truitt and Sitka pal Whitney McArthur were rivals in the 50-yard freestyle. McArthur finished 0.01 seconds ahead of Mulgrew-Truitt in the event at regionals before they tied one another in the 50 freestyle at the state meet for third place.<\/p>\n
“We laughed about it,” the JDHS senior said. “We just agreed this year not to tie.”<\/p>\n
Sophia Puliafico and Eric Schumacher are the only other seniors on the Crimson Bears this season.<\/p>\n
Under third-year head coach Seth Cayce, the Crimson Bears girls team have not lost at regions. The boys team, however, hasn’t won it in that time.<\/p>\n
Still, there’s not a lot of pouting at the Crimson Bears practice these days — boys included.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a group collectively work as hard which is kind of cool,” Cayce said.<\/p>\n
Cayce’s team is heavy with juniors, who along with the seniors, set a good example for the rest of the team.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had some really good practices this year which is awesome,” he added. “That’s nothing against other years, it’s just they’re really working their butts off this year.”<\/p>\n
The diving team resurfaced last year for both programs. Cayce and Loseby both said they were glad to see diving make a comeback last season. Nathan Teal coaches a joint JDHS-TMHS diving team.<\/p>\n
The state tournament — hosted at the Dimond Park Aquatic Center last year — will be at Bartlett High School Nov. 3-4.<\/p>\n
Region V Meet Schedule<\/span><\/p>\n Sept. 1 &2 Juneau<\/p>\n Sept. 15 &16 at Ketchikan<\/p>\n Sept. 29 &30 at Petersburg<\/p>\n Oct. 13 &14 at Sitka<\/p>\n Oct. 27 &28 Region V Championships (Juneau)<\/p>\n Nov. 3 &4 State at Anchorage<\/p>\n • Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nolin.ainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n Don’t plan on swimming Friday night or Saturday afternoon at Augustus Brown Swimming Pool. There’ll be Wolves, Falcons and Crimson Bears thrashing through the water. The Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain High School swim and diving teams’ first two meets are Friday and Saturday at the downtown pool. Sitka, Ketchikan and Petersburg will also be in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":15440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15439"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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