Shawna Jordan is still soaring above her competition on the diving board. And Auburn High teammate Trisha Averill is leaving her challengers behind in the fast lane.

Jordan, a Trojan junior who won last year’s Class 3A state diving championship, is taking square aim at the 4A crown. She further solidified her status as a favorite last when she won the West Central District title at the Foss pool.

Jordan racked up 374.10 points, easily beating out runner-up Angela Hansen of Decatur, who tallied 340.75.

Averill, a senior who’s back in the high school pool after focusing on club swimming last year, stroked to a pair of district titles in the swim finals last Saturday at the Rogers High pool. She breezed to the 200-yard individual medley crown in 2 minutes, 9.71 seconds, leaving her 2½ seconds in front of runner-up Taylor Indahl from Gig Harbor.

Her margin wasn’t quite that comfortable in the 100 breaststroke, but Averill won it anyway, stopping the clock in 1:07.56. Laurell Barrett of Rogers, last year’s runner-up to now-graduated Marley Prothero of Kentwood, was second again, this time in 1:08.51.

When she swam in the 3A state meet as a sophomore in 2006, Averill finished second in the breaststroke in 1:05.92, and was fifth in the 200 IM in 2:10.06.

Jordan and Averill accounted for all of Auburn’s 48 points at district, as the Trojans finished ninth in the team standings.

Those two were joined in the win column by Jefferson freshman Amber Cratsenberg as the Raiders led local school with a fourth-place team finish, scoring 105 points. (Gig Harbor won with 221.) Cratsenberg took the 50-yard freestyle crown in 24.26 seconds, more than four tenths of a second in front of Briley Boggs of Decatur, who was second in 24.68.

Cratsenberg then took third place in the 100 free in 52.54, a race won in record-setting fashion by Kentlake sophomore Chelsea Bailey. Her time of 50.17 not only was a new district record, it came within one one-hundredth of a second of the all-time state record.

TJ’s Savanah Coe made a pair of district finals. She was second in the 100 butterfly in 1:00.86, and took fourth in the 100 breast in 1:09.19. Coe, Cratsenberg, Janice Huynh and Michelle Hogan teamed up for a third-place finish in the 200 medley relay. The Raiders were fourth in the 200 free relay.

The top seven finishers in each event will swim at state next weekend.