Blomso leads Shorewood to ninth place at State 3A swimming championships with Shorecrest 31st

Shorewood placed ninth in the State 3A swimming championships Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15-16,  2013 at the King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way.

Britt Blomso led the Thunderbirds with a fifth-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke and eighth-place finish in the 100 butterfly.

Shorewood scored seventh-place finishes in both the 200 medley relay and the 200 freestyle relay.

Shorecrest placed 31st in the team standings.

State 3A Swimming Championships

Saturday, Nov. 16, Federal Way

Team scores—1-Mercer Island 296, 2-Lakeside (Seattle) 279, 3-Bainbridge Island 256, 4-Bellevue 147, 5-Liberty (Renton) 131, 6-John F. Kennedy 110, 7-Holy Names Academy 103, 8-Hanford 92, 9-Shorewood 86, 10-Juanita 85, 11-Meadowdale 69, 12-Foss 54, 12t-Columbia River 54, 14-Ingraham 53, 15-Seattle Prep 49, 16-Interlake 47, 16t-Hazen 47, 18-Peninsula 42, 19-Marysville Pilchuck 36, 20-Mountain View 32, 21-Decatur 30, 21t-North Thurston 30, 23-Kennewick 25, 24-Marysville-Getchell 24, 25-Southridge 20, 26-Nathan Hale 19, 27-Kamiakin 18, 28-Wilson 15, 29-Sunnyside 11, 30-Stanwood 9, 31-Shorecrest 7, Glacier Peak 6, Auburn Mountainview 4, Oak Harbor 4, Shelton 4, Prairie 3, Highline 3.

200-yard medley relay—1, Bainbridge, 1:47.44… 7. Shorewood (Britt Blomso, Christina Garrison, Ann Tardiff, Erin Arslanoglu) 1:55.20.

200 freestyle—Bottelberghe, Columbia River, 1:50.86.

200 l\individual medley—1, Williams, Bellevue, 2:00.64.

50 free—1, Keane, Meadowdale, 23.21… 13. Emily Strathy (Shorecrest) 25.91.

Diving—1, Freund, Southridge, 416.35.

100 butterfly—1, Briggs, Liberty, 55.02… 8. Britt Blomso (Shorewood) 59.76.

100 free —1, Chard, Foss, 50.17… 14. Strathy (Shorecrest) 56.31.

500 free—1, Smith, Seattle Prep, 4:58.14.

200 free relay—1, Lakeside, 1:38.24… 7. Shorewood (Garrison, Nicola Gerbino, Ari Norberg, Arslanoglu) 1:44.50.

100 backstroke —1, Archer, Bainbridge, 56.38… 5. Blomso (Shorewood) 59.35.

100 breaststroke —1, Williams, Bellevue, 1:02.11… 16. Garrison (Shorewood) 1:10.06.

400 free relay —1, Mercer Island, 3:34.35… 11. Shorewood (Arslanoglu, Gerbino, Garrison, Blomso) 3:48.01.