OSAA 5A State Championships
- Feb. 16-17, 2024
- Tualatin Hils Aquatic Heart
- Outcomes
Boys Workforce Scores
- West Albany – 76
- Crescent Valley – 57
- Summit – 53
- Caldera – 30
- Canby – 19
West Albany senior Conner Dickerson defended his Oregon 5A state titles within the 50 freestyle (21.51) and 100 free (47.14) to steer the Bulldogs to their first group title in program historical past on Saturday.
Dickerson is a two-sport star, having received MVP honors in water polo final fall with a four-goal efficiency for West Albany within the state title match. He posted a personal-best 21.38 within the 50 free prelims and shaved a tenth of a second off his previous-best 100 free time from final yr’s title. Dickerson additionally led off the victorious 200 free relay (1:28.32) in 21.51 and anchored the triumphant 200 medley relay (1:39.60) with 21.02 free cut up.
Dickerson’s exhibiting was spectacular, however the person star of the meet was undoubtedly Caldera junior Campbell McKean. The USC commit crushed the OSAA information within the 100 breast (53.36) and 200 IM (1:44.54) to go together with freestyle relay splits of 19.74 and 43.73.
McKean took greater than two seconds off the earlier OSAA information in each the 100 breast (55.40) and 200 IM (1:46.91) that had been set by Brian Frazier (2016) and present Northwestern freshman Diego Nosack (2023), respectively. He shaved greater than half a second off his earlier finest within the 100 breast (53.87 from December) whereas coming only a few tenths shy of his lifetime finest within the 200 IM (1:44.23 from December).
Final yr, McKean grew to become the primary Caldera boy in class historical past to seize a state crown along with his victories within the 200 IM (1:52.44) and 100 again (51.01). He’s at the moment ranked because the No. 14 recruit in SwimSwam’s “way-too-early” rankings for the category of 2025.
Parkrose senior Thomas Olsen culminated his highschool profession by pulling off three-peats in each distance freestyle occasions. The guy USC commit swept the 200 free (1:39.65) and 500 free (4:28.21), barely slower than his profitable instances from final yr (1:39.14/4:26.52). Again in 2022, Olsen’s victories within the 200 free (1:41.38) and 500 free (4:36.73) marked Parkrose’s first swimming titles in 45 years, carrying his Broncos to their first podium end since 1976.
Summit sophomore Brecken Egeland dropped large time within the 100 fly (52.48) to earn his first state title. He shaved nearly two seconds off his previous-best 54.33 from November and greater than 4 seconds off his time from final yr’s meet (56.57). Egeland added a 49.73 leadoff for Summit’s 400 free relay (3:15.04) that closed the meet with a 1st-place end.
Wilsonville senior Max Buchwald additionally earned a person title within the 100 again (53.60), dropping a pair tenths off his earlier finest (53.82) from final yr’s Third-place effort.
Women Recap
Workforce Scores
- Bend – 119
- Canby – 48
- Redmond – 33
- West Albany – 30
- Summit – 25
The Bend ladies dominated the 5A meet with 119 factors, surpassing their earlier scoring report of 105 factors in 2018 en path to their second state title in a row.
Bend kicked off the meet with a large OSAA report within the 200 medley relay (1:41.91), greater than two seconds quicker than the seven-year-old customary of 1:44.23 set by Jesuit in 2017. All 4 of the relay record-breakers — sophomore Maddie Thornton (25.49 again, quicker than all however one of many boys’ relay leadoffs), junior Hadley Hayes (29.36 breast), sophomore Emma Bronson (24.67 fly), and junior Kamryn Meskill (22.39 free) — additionally received particular person titles for the Lava Bears in an unimaginable show of depth. The scariest half for opponents is that they need to all be returning subsequent season.
“That was the spotlight right this moment, for positive,” Meskill stated of the 200 medley relay report. “We knew we might do it.”
Meskill established a brand new 5A report within the 50 free (22.89) sneaking beneath the outdated mark of twenty-two.96 posted by present Georgia freshman Helena Jones in 2022. A UNC commit, Meskill has been barely quicker within the 50 free earlier than at 22.84 in December. She introduced dwelling one other particular person title within the 100 free (50.75), inside a second of her personal-best 49.86 from December, and in addition contributed a 23.31 anchor on Bend’s victorious 200 free relay (1:38.43). Meskill has now captured back-to-back 5A crowns since transferring from Caldera after her freshman yr.
Thornton turned heads by capturing state crowns within the 200 IM (2:01.16) and 100 again (54.94), simply lacking the 5A report (54.91 by Bend’s Elliyana Ferrin 2017) within the latter occasion. She nonetheless has two extra years to chase that customary. Thornton owns lifetime bests of two:01.01 within the 200 IM from November and 54.72 within the 100 again from final month. She added a 50.83 leadoff on Bend’s profitable 400 free relay (3:39.07), a tenth off her finest time from final month.
Bronson dipped beneath 56 seconds within the 100 fly for the primary time en path to the title in 55.47. Hayes clinched the 100 breast crown in 1:03.81, breaking the 1:04 barrier for the primary time.
Runner-up Canby (48 factors) boasted the opposite two particular person champions within the distance freestyle occasions. Canby senior Kali Mull positioned 1st within the 200 free (1:53.66), dropping nearly a second off her previous-best 1:54.56 from December. She is slated to proceed her profession at Cal State East Bay this fall.
Mull’s teammate, Canby freshman Quincy Taliaferro, improved her lifetime finest by greater than six seconds on her solution to the five hundred free victory. She reached the wall in 5:07.13, demolishing her previous-best 5:13.71 from final month.