Wolves post times in virtual meets

Without competitors this season, Sequim High’s girls swim squad looks to continue to improve on personal bests and move up the rankings in the Olympic League, with one more virtual meet on March 5 and a culminating virtual league final set for March 9 and 11.

The Wolves competed on Feb. 26, with six individuals ans seven relay teams posting top-20 times against other league competitors.

Mia Coffman, a multi-year state competitor, continues to post strong times, including the league’s top 500 freestyle mark (5:53). She also has the fifth best 100 free time (1:01), the sixth-best 50 free (28.03) and 200 individual medley mark (2:34), and 12th-best backstroke mark (1:12).

Lauren Sundin has four top-20 league times, including the 200 free (12th, 2:27), 500 free (13th, 6:41), 200 IM (15th, 2:49) and 100 butterfly (18th, 1:22).

Sequim head coach Sarah Thorson said the top improvements in the past week came from Eislynn Flood and Julia Jeffers. Flood trimmed six seconds off her best 500 free time to 6:49, good for 14th in the league, while Jeffers dropped more than 46 seconds from the previous week in the same event; she’s now ranked 19th in the 500 free (8:25).

Sequim boasts the six-fastest 200 medley relay team in the league, with Coffman, Sundin, Melanie Byrne and Hi’ilei Robinson clocking in at 2:17.

The Wolves also have the seventh-fastest 200 free relay — Coffman, Sundin, Petra Bernsten and Christina Caples, 2:11.87 — and the eight-fastest 200 free relay: Byrne, Claire Cronin, Keena Paris and Sydnee Price, at 2:29.

Sequim swimmers are back in action on March 5 at the YMCA of Sequim and wrap up the abridged 2020-2021 season with a league culminating meet, Thorson said. Swimmers will have preliminaries n Tuesday,March 9, with the top 12 in the league in each event moving on to the March 11 finals.