PUHI — Turns out, Warriors do just fine in the water. Kapa‘a High School took home both the boys and girls KIF Championships for swimming Saturday afternoon at the YMCA Pool in Puhi. On a day where eight different records
PUHI — Turns out, Warriors do just fine in the water.
Kapa‘a High School took home both the boys and girls KIF Championships for swimming Saturday afternoon at the YMCA Pool in Puhi.
On a day where eight different records fell, it was the Warriors’ Anya Littlefield that highlighted the Eastside school’s path to victory. Littlefield won two individual events and teamed up to win two relay events. Littlefield set a new KIF record in the 200-yard freestyle race with a time of 1:58.56. She broke another KIF record in the 500-yard freestyle when she touched the wall with the clock reading 5:15.78.
Littlefield’s relay teams were no slouches either. The team of Littlefield, Lana Vali, Tambrina Fairbanks and Maluhia Stark-Kinimaka broke the KIF Championship record in the 200-yard medley relay by over two seconds with a time of 1:59.71.
The Kapa‘a boys were also dominant in the 200-yard medley, as Bryson Baligad, Kaz Tasic, Rico Joel and Luan Becerra won their relay over second-place Waimea by nearly nine seconds. The Kapa‘a boys touched the wall in 1:54.77.
The Kapa‘a boys took home the top two spots in the 200-yard IM with Baligad and Tasic edging out Island School freshman James Papa.
Kaua‘i’s Yasmine Ware continued her season-long assault on the record books. The freshman sensation broke her own KIF record in the 50-yard freestyle by nearly half a second with a 24.52 time. Ware yet again broke her own record in the 100-yard breaststroke by finishing in 1:08.68, good for a three second improvement.
Ware also teamed up with Sophie Britzmann, Kaitlyn Santos and Ellie Valentino to lead the Red Raider girls to a easy win over Kapa‘a in the 400-yard freestyle relay.
Kaua‘i’s other super freshman, Kate Machorek, broke two KIF Championship records, one with a 2:16.76 time in the 200-yard IM and the other with a 1:02.77 in the 100-yard backstroke. Britzmann claimed her own win in the girls 100-yard butterfly over Waimea’s Kayla Ishida, while Santos edged Kapa‘a’s Maluhia Stark-Kinimaka in the girls 100-yard freestyle. The Waimea boys had an impressive win by senior Matt Holzman in the 100-yard backstroke. Holzman beat Island School’s James by over seven seconds with a time of 1:07.59.
Island School’s Quinn Hannah-White claimed the Boys 200-yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle while Tyler Keith claimed the 100-yard freestyle for the Voyagers with a time of 54.49.
Hannah-White, Papa, Keith and Makalii Pratt also claimed the boys 200-yard freestyle relay for the Voyagers over Kapa‘a.
