PUHI — Anya Littlefield picked up her second automatic state qualification time and broke a Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation championship record to lead the Kapa‘a girls to their 2010 KIF title. The Waimea boys, tied with Kapa‘a through 10 events at
PUHI — Anya Littlefield picked up her second automatic state qualification time and broke a Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation championship record to lead the Kapa‘a girls to their 2010 KIF title.
The Waimea boys, tied with Kapa‘a through 10 events at the KIF Swimming Championships Saturday at the YMCA Pool, worked through a consistent swim to pick up the 2010 Boys Swimming title, finishing with 74 points.
Kaua‘i filled in second place with 63 points over Kapa‘a’s 60 points and Island School’s three points.
The Kapa‘a High School girls finished the day with 100 points followed by Kaua‘i High School’s 78 points, Island School’s 20 points and Waimea High School’s two points.
Overall, the KIF swimmers picked up 12 consideration times in addition to Littlefield’s auto-time standard, six of those considerations coming in relay team events.
Littlefield, who broke the KIF record in the Girls 500-yard Freestyle last week and earned an auto time, this week broke open the KIF Championship record set in Jan. 31, 2009 by Desiree Pia of 1:06.22 in the Girls 100-yard Butterfly.
Littlefield, entered the water with a seeded swim of 1:04.41, already faster than the KIF Championship record, and sliced through the pool on a 1:03.81 swim, bettering her seeded swim by almost a second.
She also marked a second auto time in the Girls 500-yard Freestyle with her 5:28.99 swim over her seeded 5:28.31 set last week. But the Saturday swim in the event was better than the KIF Championship record of 5:32.24 she set last year.
Littlefield was the No. 3 swimmer in the Girls 200-yard Medley Relay event that finished first for a consideration at 2:02.26. This was also a KIF Championship record swim, bettering the record set on Feb. 4, 2008 by the Kapa‘a team of T. Rames, E. Rausch, K. Jarry and S. Roselli.
The Kapa‘a senior was also part of the Girls 400-yard Freestyle Relay team that earned a consideration swim with its first finish of 4:09.22.
Emma Rausch swam the breaststroke leg of the Girls 200-yard Medley Relay for Kapa‘a and went on to earn a consideration time in the Girls 100-yard Backstroke event on a 1:15.69 swim, bettering her seeded time of 1:16.35.
Kaua‘i High School’s Girls 200-yard Medley Relay finished second (2:07.83) to Kapa‘a, but also earned a consideration time.
Keisha Anaya, senior, was part of that team and went on to earn a consideration time in the Girls 100-yard Backstroke where she bettered her seeded time of 1:07.84 with a swim of 1:07.25.
Kaua‘i freshman Sophie Britzmann swam the breaststroke phase for the Kaua‘i team in the medley relay and went on to help lead the Girls 200-yard Freestyle Relay to its first finish and a consideration time of 1:51.64, bettering its seeded 1:52.62.
Cody Ishiguro, Aaron Pigott, D.J. Herr and Nathan Wong made up the Boys 200-yard Medley Relay team which also earned a consideration time with its first finish of 1:54.28, bettering its seeded time by more than three seconds.
That same combination of swimmers topped the Boys 400-yard Freestyle Relay with a swim of 3:48.73, bettering its seeded time of 3:57.90.
This event saw all three schools mark consideration swims, Waimea finishing at 3:51.47, bettering its 4:03.09 mark and Kapa‘a finishing at 3:55.07, bettering its 4:08.70 seed.
Pigott, a senior, earned his own consideration time in the Boys 100-yard Breaststroke on a 1:05.26 swim, bettering his seeded time of 1:08.36.
Kanoa Nartatez, a Kapa‘a junior, swam the anchor leg on that relay team and earlier, earned his own consideration time with a first finish in the Boys 50-yard Freestyle, stopping the clock at 23.96, bettering his seeded time of 24.03.
The Local Motion Swimming and Diving Championships will be Feb. 12-13 at Kamehameha Schools-Hawai‘i.
