Swimmers make Section finals

Individuals and relay teams will compete for state qualification

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Freshman Will Mathews swims butterfly in the Section preliminary meet Feb. 23. He will swim in the Section finals Feb. 25.

Three Park relay teams and nine individuals qualified for Section finals Feb. 23. Section finals take place 1 p.m. Feb. 25 at the Art Downy Aquatic Center in Edina.

Relay team qualifiers:

200 medley relay placed third with a time of 1:43.62, including freshman Will Schwietering, freshman Will Matthews, 8th grader Hayden Zheng and senior Nils Rykken. Rykken, junior David Salamzadeh, senior Nate Stone and Zheng will swim in the finals.

200 freestyle relay placed fifth with a time of 1:38.32, including sophomore Max Bechtold, Matthews, 7th grader Daniel Lainsbury and Schwietering. Sophomore Luke Anderson, Bechtold, Lainsbury and Matthews will swim in the finals.

400 freestyle relay placed third with a time of 3:29.71, including Anderson, Bechtold, Lainsbury and Stone. Rykken, Salamzadeh, Stone and Zheng will swim in the finals.

Individual event qualifiers:

200 yard freestyle:

Nate Stone, 1st, 1:46.60

Max Bechtold, 10th, 1:54.01

200 yard individual medley:

Hayden Zheng, 1st, 1:56.95

David Salamzadeh, 4th, 2:02.38

Luke Anderson, 10th, 2:11.24

50 yard freestyle:

Nils Rykken, 1st, 22.29

Daniel Lainsbury, 11th, 23.89

100 yard butterfly:

Nate Stone, 1st, 52.15

Luke Anderson, 9th, 58.49

Will Mathews, 13th, 1:01.13

100 yard freestyle:

David Salamzadeh, 8th, 50.99

Daniel Lainsbury, 13th, 52.51

500 yard freestyle:

Max Bechtold, 6th 5:08.34

Henry Hein, 14th, 5:31.15

100 yard backstroke

Luke Anderson, 6th, 59.24

Will Schwietering, 9th, 1:00.25

Will Matthews, 12th, 1:02.42

100 yard breaststroke:

Hayden Zheng, 1st, 59.08

Nils Rykken, 5th, 1:02.15