Central Kitsap’s boys swim team faced off against Timberline High School to kickstart their 2024-2025 season this Tuesday, Dec. 3. Though they lost 79-103, they competed in 11 events* in which a few individuals placed first in one of seven of the event heats*: the 200-yard medley relay, 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, 100 yard-freestyle, 500-yard freestyle, 100-yard backstroke, and 400-yard freestyle relay. District times were also earned in all three relay races.
“Compared to the past three years I have already been in swim, this has been the greatest and the most tightly knit [the] team has been in a while,” senior and captain J.C. Valenzuela said. “I’m really glad that everyone is very welcoming to each other. Everyone’s excited to be in the same place in this community.”
After only one hard week of practicing and getting to know each other, the Central Kitsap High School boys swim team managed to do well in the majority of the events, because even if a swimmer did not get first, they were usually close behind in second, third, or forth place.
“Well, there are definitely some things that we need to improve and work on,” senior and team captain Levi Bellon said. “But then again, it’s the first meet, and with practice, we’ll be able to iron those things out before our next meet, after today.”
*Event: specific type of swim races, usually 12, unless diving is excluded, then there are only11
*Heat: one of a series of races in an event at a swim meet, the amount of heats depends on the amount of swimmers
