The Auburn Mountainview boys swim and dive team made history this past weekend, taking first place at the South Puget Sound League 3A Championship meet at Lakes High School in Lakewood.
The Lions posted 552 points to edge rival Enumclaw, which finished with 542 points.
In addition to its first-place finish, Auburn Mountainview set three school records.
Luke Lavine topped his own 50-meter freestyle record twice over the weekend, posting a record-breaking 22.13-second finish last Friday before breaking it with a 21.81 last Saturday.
Lavine also lowered Cameron Lindsay’s school record in the 100 free with a 49.22.
The school’s 200 free relay team also broke its year-old record with Lavine, Owen Lempert, Tyler Arnold and Valen Hill posting a winning time 1:32.59 in the finals.
Lavine and the 200 free relay team now prepares for the West Central District III Swim Meet on Feb. 13-14 at the Hazen Pool in Renton.
Also moving on to the district meet is the Lions’ 200 medley relay team of Arnold, Lempert, Lavine and Chase Murphy, which finished first with a 1:45.92.
Individually, Lempert won the 100 breast in 1:03.73.
Arnold qualified for district in the 200 free with a third-place 2:01.81 and in the 100 back with a second-place 59.35.
Hill placed seventh in the 50 free with a 24.47, good enough for a district berth, and Lempert punched his ticket to district in the 200 individual medley with a first-place 2:08.81.
Murphy finished third in the 100 butterfly with a district-qualifying 1:02.46.
Tyler Scheff earned a district nod with a seventh-place finish in the 100 back with a 1:05.50.
Adam Rhoades also qualified for districts with an eighth-place 1:13.43.
The Lions’ 400 free relay team also moves on to district with Hill, Murphy, Ian Portmann and Truman Sulewski posting a third-place 3:44.29.
Max Barton rounded out Auburn Mountainview’s district qualifiers with a ninth-place, 281.30-point finish in the diving competition.
Auburn Riverside, which finished seventh in the team competition with 191 points, will compete in two relay events, the diving competition and two individual events at the district meet.
Senior Tye Dutcher led the way with a first-place, 59.04 time in the 100 back and fourth in the 100 fly with a 1:02.56.
Dutcher also contributed to the 200 medley relay team’s 2:02.07, qualifying for district. Also on the team are Mario Pimental-Ramirez, Daniel Godfrey and Armando Valencia.
The Ravens’ 200 free relay team – Dutcher, Godfrey, Valencia and Pimental-Ramirez – also moves on with a sixth-place, 1:47.43 time.
Also qualifying for Auburn Riverside is diver Garrett Rosin, who notched a fourth-place, 282.95 finish.
Auburn finished eighth in the 200 medley with Jake McInerny, Diego Del Ray, Nikia Caldwell and John Villandry swimming to a district-qualifying 2:10.88.
The district meet gets under way at 5 p.m. Jan. 13 and continues Jan. 14 at the Hazen Pool in Renton.
The state 3A championship is Feb. 20-21 at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.
