Amarillo High sweeps 3-5A team swimming titles for second straight year

It was a new year but the same old results Friday afternoon at the District 3-5A swim meet at the Amarillo Town Club, which was great news for Amarillo High.

For the second straight year, Amarillo High dominated the meet featuring all four Amarillo ISD high schools, sweeping the boys and girls points titles by decisive margins. The AHS boys won the team title with 236 points and the girls were almost as dominant with 217.5 points, as Tascosa was a distant second in both cases.

Amarillo High had five multiple winners, with three coming from the boys and two from the girls.

Two seniors were multiple winners for Amarillo High. Lance Dykhouse won the 100-yard freestyle in 51.39 seconds and took the 100 backstroke in 57.18 after teammate and favorite Alex Purdy was disqualified.

Bradley Bontrager was Amarillo High’s other two-time boys senior winner. Bontrager won the 200 individual medley in 2:29.52 and took the 100 breaststroke in 1:09.81.

Freshman Hayden Jenkins was the other two-time winner for the AHS boys. Jenkins won the 200 and 500 freestyles in 2:06.59 and 5:41.13 respectively.

Senior Miyah Chavez won twice for the Amarillo High girls. Chavez won the 100 free in 1:05.68 and the 100 back in 1:11.92.

Sophomore Anna Lee won twice for AHS, winning the 50 and 200 frees in 28.85 and the 2:23.10 respectively. The other individual multiple winner was Maggie Marhefka for the Tascosa girls.

Marhefka won the 200 IM in 2:30.56 and the 100 butterfly in 1:08.73. Tascosa scored 107.5 points in the girls events and 72 in the boys’ events.