11/13/2022
(Federal Way, WA) Covid struck again, this time in a rare positive way. When sports were again being allowed the WIAA had to stretch out the swim event from the traditional 2 days to 3 days to keep contact minimal so last year’s boys event saw the Diving event held separately on Thursday and then the swimmers had Friday and Saturday. That worked so well and gave Divers more attention the WIAA decided to make that format permanent.
So the lady divers got their own day to begin the 2022 Swim and Dive State Championships at the King County Aquatic Center on Thursday. Below is the re-cap of each classification with video highlights and a large photo gallery at the bottom. (Please use or copy any of the photos for your own personal use.)
4A Diving
Olympia’s Aoi Kondo was one of the favorites coming into the diving competition and she did not disappoint cruising to the Championship by more than 60 points topping 400 points at 400.75. The sophomore set the tone early accumulating 281.75 points in the prelims and never looked back.
The sophomores dominated as they swept the top 3 positions with Glacier Peak’s Addison Farman taking the Silver with 339.55 points overtaking Issaquah’s Trudy Inagawa whom she trailed after the prelims by about 8 points. Inagawa totaled 335.95 points for 3rd.
Junior Maya Soto from Wenatchee was 4th followed by the highest finishing freshman of the day Claire Butler who was 5th. Butler was also from Glacier Peak. The Grizzlies placing 2 in the top 5.
Here are the top 16 final results:
1 Kondo, Aoi 10 OLY 400.75
2 Farman, Addison 10 GP 339.55
3 Inagawa, Trudy 10 ISSY 335.95
4 Soto, Maya 11 WEN 325.40
5 Butler, Claire 9 GP 312.40
6 Wierschke, Lauren 12 JACK 311.65
7 Huber, Kieumy 12 EASTM 299.70
8 Wilson, Anna-Lyn 10 JACK 296.35
9 Nguyen, Kaila 11 NC 274.45
10 Hatch, Corinne 11 HAN 268.65
11 Hudson, Kennady 12 CURT 262.85
12 McCray, Valerie 12 EASTM 261.90
13 Munro, Sophia 11 EASTM 248.70
14 Yi, Abby 11 NEW 239.95
15 Leavens, Sidney 12 CHIA 239.10
16 Ballas, Fiona 9 RED 233.20
Video Highlights
Olympia’s Aoi Kondo 1st
Glacier Peaks Addison Farman 2nd
Issaquah’s Trudy Inagawa 3rd and Olympia’s Aoi Kondo 1st
3A Diving
Defending State Champion Mercer Island senior Brooke Andrews came into the meet with the highest seed score of 489.10 with familiar foes in Interlake’s Jane Raffetto(454.20) and Bellevue’s Mei Lan Uyeno (399.45) who finished 2021 in second and third.
The prelims ended with those three divers in the lead with Andrews 197.75 and Raffetto 194.15 distancing themselves from the rest of the divers. Mei Lan Uyeno 162.30 and Peninsula junior Makenna Post 152.15 where pushing each other for 3rd place. Mercer Island Sr Charlotte Friedman 141.75 and Auburn Riverside Jr Ava Lear 139.50 keeping the top of the podium in their sights.
It was Andrews and Raffetto battling for the top spot again in the semis with the Mercer Island Sr coming out on top with a 305.20 to Raffetto’s 297.30. Uyeno and Post would also distance themselves from the rest of the pack with nearly 20 point leads over 5th and 6th place with the final 3 rounds of diving remaining. The scary moment of the semis was when Charlotte Friedman clipping her heels on the board. The lifeguards and medical staff jumped right in getting her patched up and able to finishing the round in 8th place showing off the Seniors grit.
In the end it would be a repeat of the podium from 2021 with Brooke Andrews winning with a score of 432.35 Jane Raffetto had 411.10 for second and Mei Lan Uyeno third with 347.20. Charlotte Friedman would finish in 7th and Seattle Prep’s Annelise Mullally the highest placing freshman in 10th place.
Here are the top 16 final results:
1 Andrews, Brooke 12 MI 432.35
2 Raffetto, Jane 12 INT 411.10
3 Uyeno, Mei Lan 12 BELL 347.20
4 Post, Makenna 11 PEN 327.80
5 Lear, Ava 11 AR 311.30
6 Anderson, Saige 12 CASC 299.35
7 Friedman, Charlotte 12 MI 286.70
8 Porter, Jade 12 AR 275.30
9 Wilhelm, Sasha 11 JUAN 266.10
10 Mullally, Annelise 9 SPREP 264.85
11 Bertlin, Anna 12 MI 264.60
12 Magelson, Brynn 9 MON 261.30
13 McKune, Sadie 10 NT 259.90
14 Mohan, Adya 11 BELL 256.95
15 Schiltz, Maggie 12 CS 256.85
16 Rush, Delaney 10 KENNE 249.85
1A/2A Diving
Enumclaw’s Naomi Prince came in with the highest seed score of 360.60 but would be pushed by teammate Ashley Dickerson and Sammamish junior Seema Borgmann. In fact it was Borgmann that led after the prelims with a score of 159.30 with Prince in 2nd right on her heels with a 151.25 and Dickerson in 3rd with a 128.20. Sammamish sophomore Elsa Nord was 4th with a 123.05.
In the Semis it was the same 3 leading the way. Borgmann ended the 8th round with a score of 258.05, Prince with a 252.70 chipping away at the lead and Dickerson in 3rd with a 203.25. Archbishop Murphy sophomore Sami Mandeville made the biggest jump in score going from 111.00 and 8th place in the prelims to 187.70 and 4th place going into the finals.
Going into the 11th and final round of diving Borgmann led but diving 7th in the order and Prince diving 14th. Naomi Prince knew what she had to do in order to walk away with the diving title and she delivered jumping past Borgmann on her final dive. Dickerson would take 3rd and Mandeville 4th followed by Nord in 5th and Freshman Trista Turgeon of White River taking 6th.
Naomi Prince’s final score of 346.40 puts her in 4th on the All-Time diving list and Seema Borgmann’s 341.35 is 5th All-Time
Here are the top 16 final results:
1 Prince, Naomi 12 ENUM 346.40
2 Borgmann, Seema 11 SAMM 341.35
3 Dickerson, Ashley 12 ENUM 277.65
4 Mandeville, Sami 10 AM 266.90
5 Nord, Elsa 10 SAMM 259.60
6 Turgeon, Trista 9 WR 250.00
7 Shahani, Maya 9 SAMM 234.85
8 Andersen, Kenna 11 SQUAL 229.45
9 Hamilton, Lynden 12 TUMW 225.05
10 MacDonald, Shannon 12 SAMM 224.75
11 Adachi, Emili 12 STE 223.10
12 Obbink, Chantel 12 SQUAL 221.30
13 Webb, Laura 10 SEH 220.60
14 Smith, Avery 11 STE 216.35
15 Possinger, Gracie 12 PA 208.10
16 Weeks, Rylee 11 TUMW 190.55
Video Highlights
Sammamish Junior Seema Borgmann 2nd
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