Casie Ford, a senior at Kaua‘i High School, had the meet of her life at the 2009 Hawai‘i High School Athletic Association Local Motion Swimming and Diving Championships, Saturday. Punahou girls won the competition with 75 points; the boys from
Casie Ford, a senior at Kaua‘i High School, had the meet of her life at the 2009 Hawai‘i High School Athletic Association Local Motion Swimming and Diving Championships, Saturday.
Punahou girls won the competition with 75 points; the boys from Iolani won with 62 points.
Ford was joined by the Kapa‘a High School Girls 200 Yard Freestyle Relay team that finished the state competition in seventh place after Baldwin High School’s ‘A’ Team disqualified.
That team included Sarah Faraola, Tania Rames, Anya Littlefield and Emma Rausch and finished the final swim in 1:46.48, an improvement over its preliminary showing of 1:47.37 Friday at the Central O‘ahu Recreational Park facility.
Kapa‘a earned a No. 14 seed following the Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation season with a 1:47.96 swim and improved to the No. 8 seed following the preliminaries.
Ford, one of several Kaua‘i swimmers that earned multiple spots to the state competition, was seeded 18th entering the Girls 200 Yard Freestyle event, Friday. Her time following the KIF season was 2:07.01
Ahead of her, Littlefield (2:03.52) and Ryann Linthicum (2:04.32) were seeded Nos. 11 and 16, respectively.
Ford chopped almost five seconds off her seeded time to finish the preliminaries seeded No. 6 following a 2:02.07 swim while Littlefield dropped to No. 13 (2:04.04) and Linthicum fell to No. 18 (2:05.96).
During the final swim, Ford stopped the clock at 2:04.02, a two-second increase from her preliminaries, but finished No. 8 in the event.
Kaua‘i High School’s Girls 400 Yard Freestyle Relay Team, seeded No. 10 after the KIF season (3:56.25), finished the preliminaries as the second alternate with a 3:55.99, an improvement over its KIF time.
Kapa‘a High School’s Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay team, seeded No. 14 (2:01.62) following the KIF season, finished the preliminaries as second alternate on a 2:01.01 swim, improving its seeded time.
The Waimea Boys 200 Yard Freestyle Relay team, No. 21 (1:44.06), finished the preliminaries at No. 17 following its 1:42.06 swim with the Kapa‘a team, No. 24, (1:44.95), in No. 18 with a 1:42.62 swim.
Complete results of the championships can be found at www.sportshigh.com.
