Ruffin leading Juneau swimmers

  • By Klas Stolpe
  • Friday, November 6, 2015 8:36pm
  • Sports

Juneau-Douglas High School junior Mia Ruffin is seeded first in the girl’s 100 yard breaststroke after the preliminary swims at the 2015 Alaska School Activities Association First National Bank Alaska Swim/Dive State Championships.

Ruffin posted a 1:07.34 on Friday to lead a group of Southeast swimmers including Sitka’s Skylar Moore at third (1:09.46) and Whitney McArthur fifth (1:09.86). Ruffin also earned a second seed in the girl’s 200 IM with 2:11.72, four-tenths of a second out of first. 

Thunder Mountain freshman Bergen Davis qualified as the third seed in the boy’s 200 IM in 2:01.12 and JDHS’ Aidan Seid got the eighth spot with 2:04.96. Davis also qualified fifth in the boy’s 100 breast with 1:01.44 and Ketchikan’s Chance Rhein was sixth in 1:02.19.

JDHS’ junior Gabi Kito qualifed for the Saturday finals with a 2:00.26 for fourth in the girl’s 200 freestyle and Sitka’s Skylar Moore is third with 1:58.08. Sitka’s Will Pate qualifed for finals in the boys 200 free with a 1:45.28, earning a second seed. Thunder Mountain’s Spencer Holt got the eighth seed with a 1:48.36. Kito also qualified as the fifth seed in the girl’s 100 fly in 1:01.21 and Holt got a fourth seed in the boy’s 100 fly with 53.42. Pate has the top seed in the boy’s 500 free with 4:45.41.

JDHS’ Riley Walsh swam a 56.67 for the eighth seed in the girl’s 100 free. Sitka’s Jessica Davis got the second seed with a 53.75. Davis also has the second seed in the 100 back with 59.58 and JDHS’ Eliza Chappell is third in 1:01.32. JDHS’ Seid has the boy’s sixth seed while Sitka’s Brady Harang has the fourth.

Ketchikan’s Kiera O’Brien qualified for a sixth seed in the girl’s 50 free and Petersburg’s Max Snelders a fifth seed in the boy’s 50 free. O’Brien also earned a fifth seed in the 500 free.

The finals begin Saturday at 1 p.m. in Anchorage’s Bartlett High School pool.

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Girls 200 Yard Freestyle — 1, Cummiskey, Marina (Kodiak) 1:56.77. 2, Moody, Erin (Dimond) 1:57.46. 3, Moore, Skylar (Sitka) 1:58.08. 4, Kito, Gabi (Juneau) 2:00.26. 5, Randall, Angie (West Valley) 2:01.43. 6, Williams, Camryn (Dimond) 2:01.61. 7, Sato, Ripple (Dimond) 2:02.11. 8, Beverlin, Jenna (Bartlett) 2:02.29. 

Boys 200 Yard Freestyle — 1, Lindquist, Talon (Kodiak) 1:44.17. 2, Pate, Will (Sitka) 1:45.28. 3, Suleimani, Alex, LHS, 1:45.32. 4, Emili, Ryan (South) 1:46.66. 5, Alfano, Nathan (Dimond) 1:46.77. 6, Addington, Maximus (Dimond) 1:46.79. 7, Hall, Jacob (Soldotna) 1:48.03. 8, Holt, Spencer (Thunder Mountain) 1:48.36. 

Girls 200 Yard IM — 1, Oakley, Madeleine (Dimond) 2:11.32. 2, Ruffin, Mia (Juneau) 2:11.72. 3, DeGeorge, Tara (West) 2:13.60. 4, Hanson, Olivia (Dimond) 2:17.02. 5, Bruce, Jordyn (Eagle River) 2:17.55. 6, Snelders, Millie (Palmer) 2:18.01. 7, Shannon, Alex (South) 2:18.03. 8, Jarupakorn, Wanlaya (Bartlett) 2:18.99. 

Boys 200 Yard IM — 1, O’Brien, Jarod (Dimond) 1:56.34. 2, Anderson, Joseph (Colony) 1:59.13. 3, Davis, Bergen (Thunder Mountain) 2:01.12. 4, James, Luke (Kodiak) 2:01.68. 5, Creglow, Jacob (Soldotna) 2:02.00. 6, Anderson, Baxter (Kodiak) 2:03.41. 7, Hoen, Jack (Dimond) 2:03.94. 8, Seid, Aidan (Juneau) 2:04.96. 

Girls 50 Yard Freestyle — 1, Jennings, Emmie (Chugiak) 24.05. 2, Powers, Izzy (Chugiak) 24.69. 3, Hampton, Alyssa (Dimond) 24.78. 4, Angaiak, Abigail (West Valley) 25.05. 5, Min, Esther (Eagle River) 25.15. 6, O’Brien, Kiera (Ketchikan) 25.28. 7, Juliussen, Sydney (Soldotna) 25.53. 8, Toussaint, Yanne (Colony) 25.54. 

Boys 50 Yard Freestyle — 1, Adams, Nathanial (Service) 20.94. 2, Watkins, Cody (Soldotna) 21.98. 3, O’Donoghue, Tristan (West Valley) 22.05. 4, Law, Caleb (Service) 22.41. 5, Snelders, Max (Petersburg) 22.46. 6, Schauff, Nathan (Kodiak) 22.60. 6, Min, Joseph (Eagle River) 22.60. 8, Hall, David,  SOHI, 22.71. 

Girls 100 Yard Butterfly –1, Min, Esther (Eagle River) 58.56. 2, Dayton, Camille (Colony) 59.59. 3, Evershed, Elcee (Hutchison) 59.94. 4, Jarupakorn, Wanlaya (Bartlett) 1:00.87. 5, Kito, Gabi (Juneau) 1:01.21. 6, Watson, Cassie (South) 1:01.82. 7, Willis, Tatumn (Dimond) 1:01.85. 8, Cummiskey, Devon (Kodiak) 1:02.05. 

Boys 100 Yard Butterfly — 1, Lindquist, Talon (Kodiak) 51.66. 2, Watkins, Cody (Soldotna) 52.50. 3, Alfano, Nathan (Dimond) 53.18. 4, Holt, Spencer (Thunder Mountain) 53.42. 5, Simmons, Jake (Colony) 53.87. 6, Addington, Maximus (Dimond) 54.72. 7, Wolcott, John (South) 55.68. 8, Min, Joseph (Eagle River) 55.93. 

Girls 100 Yard Freestyle — 1, Jennings, Emmie (Chugiak) 52.81. 2, Davis, Jessica (Sitka) 53.75. 3, Bruce, Jordyn (Eagle River) 54.11. 4, Cummiskey, Marina (Kodiak) 54.45. 5, Burke, Cheyenne (Chugiak) 54.94. 6, Williams, Kendal (Dimond) 55.20. 7, Toussaint, Yanne (Colony) 55.94. 8, Walsh, Rielly (Juneau) 56.67. 

Boys 100 Yard Freestyle — 1, Adams, Nathanial (Service) 46.56. 2, Dittlinger, Reed (Dimond) 47.78. 3, Fox-Icarro, Bryce (Eagle River) 48.15. 4, Emili, Ryan (South) 48.51. 5, Schauff, Nathan (Kodiak) 49.38. 6, Hall, David (Soldotna) 49.39. 7, Chung, Christopher (Dimond) 49.60. 8, James, Luke (Kodiak) 49.63. 

Girls 500 Yard Freestyle — 1, DeGeorge, Tara (West) 5:16.15. 2, Moody, Erin (Dimond) 5:17.47. 3, Randall, Angie (West Valley) 5:22.91. 4, Williams, Camryn (Dimond) 5:24.44. 5, O’Brien, Kiera (Ketchikan) 5:26.88. 6, Kuhns, Lauren (Homer) 5:28.85. 7, Sato, Ripple (Dimond) 5:28.99. 8, Keyes, Taylor (West Valley) 5:31.44. 

Boys 500 Yard Freestyle — 1, Pate, Will (Sitka) 4:45.41. 2, Suleimani, Alex, LHS, 4:53.33. 3, Lambert, Dan (Kodiak) 4:57.77. 4, Hall, Jacob (Soldotna) 4:59.36. 5, Blackstone, Reid (Chugiak) 4:59.87. 6, Smith, Daniel (Kodiak) 4:59.99. 7, Walch, Andrew (Dimond) 5:00.14. 8, Loudon, Christopher (Dimond) 5:03.88. 

Girls 100 Yard Backstroke — 1, Powers, Izzy (Chugiak) 58.82. 2, Davis, Jessica (Sitka) 59.58. 3, Chappell, Eliza (Juneau) 1:01.32. 4, Burke, Cheyenne (Chugiak) 1:01.35. 5, Dayton, Camille (Colony) 1:01.60. 6, Shannon, Alex (South) 1:01.91. 7, Angaiak, Abigail (West Valley) 1:02.93. 8, Hanson, Olivia (Dimond) 1:03.79. 

Boys 100 Yard Backstroke — 1, Dittlinger, Reed (Dimond) 53.41. 2, O’Donoghue, Tristan (West Valley) 53.74. 3, Fox-Icarro, Bryce (Eagle River) 55.63. 4, Harang, Brady (Sitka) 55.64. 5, Minster, Nick (South) 56.19. 6, Seid, Aidan (Juneau) 56.51. 7, Hanson, Gus (Kodiak) 56.53. 8, Floyd, Nigel (Eagle River) 57.49. 

Girls 100 Yard Breaststroke — 1, Ruffin, Mia (Juneau) 1:07.34. 2, Oakley, Madeleine (Dimond) 1:08.05. 3, Moore, Skylar (Sitka) 1:09.46. 4, McElroy, Claire (Soldotna) 1:09.77. 5, McArthur, Whitney (Sitka) 1:09.86. 6, Snelders, Millie (Petersburg) 1:11.16. 7, Sullivan, Anne (Colony) 1:11.25. 8, Cvancara, Ruth (Dimond) 1:12.19. 

Boys 100 Yard Breaststroke — 1, Anderson, Joseph (Colony) 58.10. 2, O’Brien, Jarod (Dimond) 58.68. 3, Hoen, Jack (Dimond) 59.28. 4, Creglow, Jacob (Soldotna) 1:00.60. 5, Davis, Bergen (Thunder Mountain) 1:01.44. 6, Rhein, Chance (Ketchikan) 1:02.19. 6, Carpenter, Bryce (Eagle River) 1:02.19. 8, Cvancara, Dax (Dimond) 1:03.45.

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