MARYSVILLE — Another year, another 4A boys swimming District 1 championship for the Kamiak Knights.
It was the fourth consecutive district championship trophy that the Knights have hoisted. This one came rather easily, defeating their nearest competitor, Marysville-Pilchuck, by 202 poin
ts. The Knights finished with 688 total points. Stanwood (330), Snohomish (271) and Cascade (268) rounded out the top five.
The Knights swept the relay races, winning the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1 minute, 39.16 seconds, the 200 freestyle relay in 1:30.85 and the 400 freestyle rel
ay in 3:18:01.
Kamiak also had winners in four individual events, Chris Choi in the 200 individual medley (1:58.90), Kris Bratvold in the 50 freestyle (22.40), John Stupey in the 100 freestyle and Liam Sosinsky in the 100 breaststroke.
But it was Sosinsky’s swim in the 100 breaststroke that stole the show. He finished the race in 57.75 seconds, which was good enough for All-American consideration. The second-place finisher, Spencer Girard, Sosinsky’s main competition in the event, finished more than 2 seconds behind with a time of 59.77.
“I really wanted to win that because Spencer has been beating me the last few times and I wanted to get back some dignity there,” Sosinsky said. “He’s the one who motivated me, I have Spencer to thank.”
Sosinsky said he knows that Girard will be looking for a bit of revenge next week at the 4A state championships.
“I’m going to have to really focus this week in practice,” Sosinsky said.
Sosinsky’s time in the event was also within shouting distance of Snohomish swimming great Garren Reichel, who owns the meet record with a time of 55.68.
But the focus isn’t on records now, its about winning a state championship.
“Truthfully the 57.75 came out of nowhere. If I can do that at districts, then I can do it at state,” Sosinsky said.
Making Sosinsky’s swim even more impressive is the fact that he is a sophomore.
Chris Erickson said Sosinsky “just broke the toughest school record on the board.”
The Knights lose swimmers every year to graduation, but somehow they are able to reload each time.
“We have guys that are willing to work hard,” Erickson said.
Kamiak may have won, but it wasn’t the only team that was excited about its performance.
Snohomish head coach Rob Serviss had reason to be excited about both his team and one of his star individuals.
“The team performance today was fantastic,” Serviss said.
The Panthers finished in fourth place overall, but said that his team improved a lot over the course of the meet and finishing as high as the Panthers did is impressive because they don’t have as many swimmers as they once did.
One swimmer they are thankful they do have is senior Bryan Harvey. Harvey scored victories in both the 100 butterfly (50.27) and the 100 backstroke (51.83).
But that was only a small part of the story.
He set meet records in both races and both times were worthy of All-American consideration, something that Harvey was modest about after the meet.
“It’s just a stepping stone. You can’t get too excited about this, you just have to get right back at it on Monday,” Harvey said.
“He’s faster than he was at this point last year,” Serviss said. “I’m excited to see what he can do next week.”
Like Serviss, Stanwood coach Art Wiper was also excited about his team’s performance and the Spartans had one standout earn victories as expected. Stanwood finished just in front of Snohomish in third place and senior Matt Roe earned victories in the 200 freestyle (1:46.99) and the 500 freestyle (4:47.12).
While Roe won both events, he wasn’t able to go after the meet record in the 500 freestyle as he had planned going into the week. Roe strained the deltoid muscle in his shoulder earlier in the week, limiting what he could do in the pool.
“I just went through the motions,” Roe said.
Wiper said that Roe had the option of not swimming on Saturday, but decided to give it a go.
Roe doesn’t expect it to be a problem next week at state.
“I feel like I will be able to bring it back and it won’t be much of a problem at all,” he said.
At Marysville-Pilchuck Pool
State meet qualifiers
200 medley relay—Kamiak (John Stupey, Liam Sosinsky, Chris Choi, Kris Bratvold) 1:39.16; Marysville-Pilchuck (Robbie Haynes, Spencer Girard, Josh Estella, Colin Willis) 1:41.20; Stanwood (Justin Murrell, Cameron Chaplik, Matt Roe, David Escobar) 1:41.21; Cascade (Tanner Hoidal, Bramon Yotty, Eric Ellersick, AJ Jenkins) 1:43.68.
200 freestyle—Matt Roe (Stanwood) 1:46.99; Tyler Cheung (K) 1:48.99; Andrew Winquist (MP) 1:49.6.
200 individual medley—Chris Choi (K) 1:58.9; Spencer Girard (MP) 1:59.07; Liam Sosinsky (K) 1:59.81; Nick Win (J) 2:03.31.
50 freestyle—Kris Bratvold (K) 22.4; Trent Roberts (K) 22.79; Kyle Libra (LS) 22.84.
Diving—Michael Kilpatrick (Snohomish) 363.75, Scott Wanner (Kamiak) 346.00, Connor Hemming (MP) 334.35.
100 butterfly—Bryan Harvey (Snohomish) 50.27; Eric Ellersick (C) 54.47; Andre Tacuyan (K) 54.83.
100 freestyle—John Stupey (K) 48.36; Trent Roberts (K) 49.83; Tanner Hoidal (C) 49.94; David Escobar (Stanwood) 50.17.
500 freestyle—Matt Roe (Stanwood) 4:47.12; Kellen Jay (EW) 5:01.24; Easton Lemos (Snohomish) 5:02.55.
200 freestyle relay—Kamiak (Kris Bratvold, Brian Burns, Trent Roberts, Tyler Cheung) 1:30.85; Stanwood (David Escobar, Cole Farnsworth, Justin Murrell, Matt Roe) 1:32.17; Marysville-Pilchuck (Drew Preston, Connor Hemming, Jon Ell, Andrew Winquist) 1:32.88.
100 backstroke—Bryan Harvey (Snohomish) 51.83; John Stupey (K) 55.02; Nick Win (J) 55.75; Justin Murrell (Stanwood) 57.01.
100 breaststroke—Liam Sosinsky (K) 57.75; Spencer Girard (MP) 59.77; Connor Hemming (MP) 1:01.22; Chris Choi (K) 1:01.48; Cameron Chaplik (Stanwood) 1:02.05.
400 freestyle relay—Kamiak (Brian Burns, Trent Roberts, John Stupey, Chris Choi) 3:18.01; Snohomish (Bryan Harvey, Easton Lemos, Ben Plybon, Daniel Pedack) 3:24.38; Marysville-Pilchuck (Colin Willis, Andrew Winquist, Drew Preston, Spencer Girard) 3:24.81.
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