The Dimond girls continued their dynasty Saturday at the state high school swimming championships.
Dimond, spurred by its dominance in all three relays — the 200 yard medley, 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle — splashed to its sixth straight state title with 98 points. The relay wins accounted for 54 of those points.
West Valley (70 points) was a distant second while Colony (62) placed third.
For the boys, Kodiak won its second championship by edging Dimond, 79-71. Eagle River took third with 69 points.
Leading the charge for Kodiak were individual champs Jackson Krug in the 100 free and Ian Rocheleau in the 100 backstroke. The Bears also won the 200 medley relay and clinched the title in the final event by tying Juneau for the 400 freestyle victory.
The Dimond boys finished runner-up for a fifth straight year.
The championships at Bartlett High School returned after being canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic.
Three state records were broken Saturday among many standout performances.
Thunder Mountain sophomore Patrick Foy crushed the 100 breaststroke record by nearly a second in 55.45 seconds.
Matthew Heaphy of Eagle River clocked 56.40 to place runner-up to Foy and match the record Joshua Gemmell of Soldotna had held since 2000.
Foy also won the 200 individual medley by more than four seconds in 1:50.55, but just missed the state record of 1:50.08 by Kodiak’s Talon Lindquist from 2017.
The highest-profile performer at the championships did not disappoint.
Seward senior Lydia Jacoby, who shocked the swimming world by winning gold at the Tokyo Olympics this summer in the 100 breaststroke, broke her own prep record in that event by nearly a second in 59.66.
Jacoby also won the 200 IM in 2:05.70, good for 3rd-fastest in Alaska high school history but well shy of the 2:03.61 record set by Kodiak’s Tahna Lindquist in 2014.
Jacoby was not the only Olympian to compete on Friday and Saturday. Jillian Crooks of the Cayman Islands represented that Caribbean nation in Toyko and swam for Homer this prep season.
Crooks won the 200 freestyle in 1:49.85 to slip under the record held by East Anchorage’s Meghan Cavanaugh of 1:50.02 set in 2007. Crooks also won the 100 freestyle in 50.70, good for third-fastest all-time at the Alaska state meet.
Cavanaugh’s 2007 record of 55.59 in the 100 butterfly barely survived Saturday’s winning effort of 55.70 by Lathrop sophomore Avery Hafele.
Here are complete results.