Issaquah-Sammamish preps well represented as state meet looms | Prep sports news

The 4A state swim and dive meet begins Friday and Issaquah, Skyline and Eastlake will be after both individual and relay trophies.

The state swim and dive meet gets underway Friday at King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way and a host of preps from Issaquah and Sammamish will be on hand for a shot at a title.

Skyline will have the sixth seed in the 200 medley relay with Kristaley Umezawa, Andi Scarcello, Stephanie Munoz and Maria Volodkevich and that group is seeded third in the 400 free relay.

Munoz will try for a spot on the podium in the 100 butterfly and 200 individual medley and Scarcello, Umezawa and Shanley Miller will also swim the 200 IM and Umezawa will be in the 100 backstroke along with teammate Sarah Elderkin. Scarcello will swim the 100 breaststroke along with Miller.

Volodkevich is seeded fifth in the 50 free as well. Three Spartans will join Munoz in the 100 fly, as Kathy Lin, Elderkin and Abby Magee will all be in the preliminary heats. Lin, Magee, Miller and Erin Zadina will be in the 200 free relay.

Erin Taylor brings the state’s second best score into the one meter dive competition and will be joined by teammate Alyssa Holt.

Issaquah will be seventh in the 200 medley relay with Stacey Meier, Kayla Flaten, Kellie-Marie Langan and Gabrielle Gevers, who will also swim the 50 free.

Meier and Skyline’s Volodkevich will also be head to head in the 100 freestyle, along with Gevers and Meier will be in the field for the 100 backstroke as well.

Michelle Francois will be in the 500 free for the Eagles. Francois, Brooke Flaten, Kayla Flaten and Gevers make up the team in the 200 free relay. Kayla Flaten is also in the field in the 100 breast. Meier, Francois, Christina Kwon and Samantha Harbeck will team in the 400 free relay.

The Eastlake squad of Nikki Bennett, Erin Alleva, Alyssa Poggermann and Lily Newton earned the final seed in the 200 medley relay and will also be in the 400 free relay.

Newton will swim the 200 free for the Wolves and the 500 free. Kaela Call, Christina Torrente and Tyler Thomas will all dive for Eastlake.

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