LIHUE — Kauai High School Swim team earned top honors, and the Red Raider boys topped their division on Saturday during the Central Pacific Bank Kauai Interscholastic Federation Swim Championships that was held at the YMCA pool.
Top honors for the girls division was awarded to Island School which earned 75 points. The Voyager wahine were followed by the Kauai High School girls ending with 61 points, Kapaa High School girls with 35 points, and Waimea girls getting 29 points.
For the boys competition, Kauai High School earned 140 points followed by the Voyager boys with 90 points, a point better than the Kapaa boys who finished with 89 points. Waimea High School boys ended with 36 points.
For the combined division, Kauai High School swim team finished with 79 points followed by Kapaa High School Swimming with 54 points. Island School earned 15 points followed by Waimea High School earning seven points.
Island School swimmer Eva-Rose Rapp was especially happy with her performance in the water that finished with two qualifying berths to go along with the cache of awards she garnered during the Kauai Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
Rapp was a member of the Island School Girls 200 Freestyle Relay team that earned a qualifying swim when the anchor swimmer touched the wall for a swim of 1 minute, 50.47 seconds. She was also part of the Girls 400 Freestyle Relay that finished first at 4:03.16.
Kauai High School freshman Shealee Moises was elated to finish with two individual qualifying swims — the 100 Yard Butterfly and the Girls 500 Yard Freestyle that she qualified for earlier in the season.
Entering Saturday, Moises’ seeded time in the 100 Butterfly was 1:06.78. Following the swim, she qualified by shaving nearly three seconds of her seeded time to 1:01.50 to become the sole female individual event qualifier.
Kauai High School finished with five individual qualifying events by two boys — Brandon Lin and Liam Juvan. Juvan qualified in the 500 freestyle on a 5:17.73 swim, and Lin, whose best qualifying swims came in the 200 Individual Medley where he stopped the clocks at 2:01.31, and the 100 Breaststroke where he finished with a 1:01.50 swim.
Both boys were part of the Boys 200 Medley Relay team that earned a qualifying spot with the 1:51.08 swim, and the Boys 200 Freestyle Relay team that finished first at 1:35.88.
The 2025 K. Mark Takai Swimming and Diving State Championships will take place Feb. 14-15 at the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatics Complex.
