Local swimmers set state marks, leading to team trophies at 5A state meet

EASTERN IDAHO — Pocatello’s Zander Enslinger and Idaho Falls’ Rangi Grimes each set state records during the 5A Idaho High School Swimming State Championships Saturday.

Both used their individual performances to help their teams earn state trophies — two of the team trophies brought east following the second day of the two-day meet at the West YMCA in Meridian.

The Idaho Falls boys’ team finished the meet with a second-place trophy, just six points behind Sandpoint, while the Idaho Falls girls came in fifth — two points ahead of Century. Pocatello’s boys’ team also grabbed a fifth-place trophy, and Skyline took home third in both the boys’ and girls’ meets.

Local swimmers also enjoyed considerable individual success, earning 51 medals in total.

Here is a complete list of those individual medals:

GIRLS

First place
Idaho Falls’ Abigail Balsmeier, 200-yard individual medley
Idaho Falls’ Abigail Balsmeier, 100-yard butterfly

Second place
Idaho Falls’ Scarlett Rix, Abigail Balsmeier, May Munday and Stella Briggs, 200-yard medley relay
Century’s Payson Johns, 200-yard freestyle
Century’s Payson Johns, 100-yard freestyle

Third place
Skyline’s Lina Budge, 500-yard freestyle
Century’s Salem Peterson, Sienna Swan, Norah O’Donnell and Payson Johns, 200-yard freestyle relay
Skyline’s Julia Daniel, 100-yard backstroke
Century’s Nora O’Donnell, Katie Davis, Sienna Swan and Payson Johns, 400-yard freestyle relay

Fourth place
Skyline’s Taylor Daniel, Lina Budge, Delila Martin and Rilee Sutton, 200-yard medley relay
Skyline’s Julia Daniel, 200-yard individual medley
Hillcrest’s Rachel Sheets, 100-yard backstroke
Idaho Falls’ Stella Briggs, Raleigh Rasmussen, Maggie Johnson and Abigail Balsmeier, 400-yard freestyle relay

Fifth place
Hillcrest’s Bailey Oram, 200-yard individual medley
Skyline’s Julia Daniel, Rilee Sutton, Aunna Reynolds and Delila Marin, 200-yard freestyle relay
Idaho Falls’ Stella Briggs, 100-yard backstroke
Hillcrest’s Bailey Oram, 100-yard breaststroke

Sixth place
Skyline’s Lina Budge, 200-yard freestyle
Century’s Salem Peterson, 50-yard freestyle
Idaho Falls’ Stella Briggs, 100-yard freestyle
Skyline’s Lina Budge, Aunna Reynolds, Grace Craw and Julia Daniel, 400-yard freestyle relay

BOYS

First place
Idaho Falls’ Hiro Quan, Nate Nichols, Nick Ravsten and Rangi Grimes, 200-yard medley relay
Pocatello’s Zander Enslinger, 200-yard freestyle — state record 1:43.58
Century’s Noah Hunt, 200-yard individual medley
Idaho Falls’ Rangi Grimes, 50-yard freestyle — state record 21.11
Pocatello’s Zander Enslinger, 500-yard freestyle
Idaho Falls’ Rangi Grimes, 100-yard backstroke
Idaho Falls’ Landon Stegman, Nick Ravsten, Jax Durtschi and Rangi Grimes, 400-yard freestyle relay

Second place
Idaho Falls’ Nate Nichols, 100-yard breaststroke
Idaho Falls’ Antoni Gofryk, Hiro Quan, Landon Stegman and Jax Burtshci, 200-yard freestyle relay
Century Noah Hunt, 100 butterfly
IF Hiro Quan, 100 free
Idaho Falls Jax Durtschi, 500 free

Third place
Idaho Falls’ Jax Durtschi, 200-yard individual medley
Skyline’s Eric Couch, Maximus Mosquera, Miller Mendenhall and Tim Kress-Weitenhagen, 400-yard freestyle relay

Fourth place
Skyline’s Will Sutton, Zac Dustin, Maximus Mosquera and Tim Kress-Weitenhagen, 200-yard medley relay
Skyline’s Eric Couch, 200-yard freestyle
Hillcrest’s Weston Harris, 100-yard butterfly
Skyline’s Eric Couch, 500-yard freestyle
Skyline’s Miller Mendenhall, Will Sutton, Zac Dustin and Eric Couch, 200-yard freestyle relay

Fifth place
Pocatello’s Kian Bennett, 200-yard freestyle
Idaho Falls Nate Nichols, 200-yard individual medley
Skyline’s Miller Mendenhall, 50-yard freestyle
Idaho Falls’ Hiro Quan, 100-yard backstroke
Skyline’s Zac Dustin, 100-yard breaststroke
Pocatello’s JW Schwartz, Malcolm Hill, Kian Bennett and Zander Enslinger, 400-yard freestyle relay

Sixth place
Pocatello’s JW Schwartz, 200-yard individual medley
Idaho Falls’ Nick Ravsten, 100-yard butterfly
Pocatello’s Kian Bennett, 500-yard freestyle
Hillcrest’s Weston Harris, Thomas Macedo, Nolan Bucher and Jace Kelly, 200-yard freestyle relay
Bonneville’s Jackson Messenger, 100-yard breaststroke