Redmond sending six athletes to state swim meet

The Redmond High boys' swim and dive team will be competing this weekend at the King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way for the 4A state swim and dive meet, with a total of six representatives. At districts last weekend at UW's Husky Pool, freshman Xavier Graham had the highest individual finish in the pool, swimming the 200-yard IM in 2 minutes, 6.73 seconds for fifth place. Graham will be swimming that event at state, as will Nicholas Kodati in the 100 butterfly, who placed eighth at districts in 55.56.

February 14, 2012 5:15 pm

The Redmond High boys’ swim and dive team will be competing this weekend at the King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way for the 4A state swim and dive meet, with a total of six representatives.

At districts last weekend at UW’s Husky Pool, freshman Xavier Graham had the highest individual finish in the pool, swimming the 200-yard IM in 2 minutes, 6.73 seconds for fifth place. Graham will be swimming that event at state, as will Nicholas Kodati in the 100 butterfly, who placed eighth at districts in 55.56.

The Mustangs also wild-carded their 200 medley relay team of Albert Jiang, Graham, Kodati and Michael Pavlov into a state berth, and the 400 free relay team (Graham, Drew McWhirter, Kodati, Pavlov) will also be competing.

On the diving board, sophomore Eric Klassen finished second with 372.35 points to Skyline standout Max Levy (433.20). Klassen will be looking to improve on his 12th-place finish from last year.

The state meet begins on Friday at 2:30 p.m., with the finals starting at 2:15 on Saturday.