The Valley Invitational Swimming and Diving Meet was hosted by Palmer High School in Palmer, Alaska.

Participating teams included: ACS – Colony – Cordova – Homer – Hutchison – Kenai – Kodiak – Lathrop – Nome – North Pole – Palmer – Seward - Skyview – Soldotna – Unalaska – Valdez – Wasilla – West Valley. 

Nine swimmers from Unalaska’s boy and girl swim teams traveled to Palmer for the Valley Invitational Swimming and Diving Meet on October 17^th – 19^th.  This is the largest regular season swim meet in the state.  This year there were 18 schools and hundreds of swimmers in the annual race.  Everyone competed on the first day of the swimming competition.  The top 12 in each event qualified for day-two finals.  Four Raider swimmers (Lucio Howard, Kei Kawada, Delanney McConnell, and Amber Vernon) qualified for day-two.  Overall, Raiders competed in 24 individual events and improved their personal times in 17 of those events. 

 

Top Finishes

BOYS TEAM

Lucio Howard            7^th / 36        Swimmers        Boys 100 Yard Breaststroke 

Lucio Howard            11^th / 25 Swimmers      Boys 200 Yard IM

Kei Kawada              12^th / 41 Swimmers      Boys 200 Yard Freestyle

Kei Kawada              12^th / 25 Swimmers      Boys 200 Yard IM

GIRLS TEAM

Delanney McConnell      10^th / 29 Swimmers      Girls 100 Yard Butterfly

Amber Vernon            10^th / 36 Swimmers      Girls 100 Yard Breaststroke

 

Other Top Finishes

BOYS TEAM

Donald Ballou           16^th / 36 Swimmers      Boys 100 Yard Backstroke

Donald Ballou           18^th / 43 Swimmers      Boys 100 Yard Freestyle

GIRLS TEAM

Delanney McConnell      21^st / 48 Swimmers      Girls 100 Yard Freestyle