SWIMMING
Seaside rebuilds, refills the pool with some high-powered talent
By Gary Henley
THE SWIMMERS
Seaside Signal
While Seaside will see
the return of a couple of
state-qualifying girls swim-
mers, the Gulls will have to
replace some high-powered
boys, including their entire
200-yard freestyle relay team.
Will Garvin, James Ken-
nedy, Luke Liljenwall and
Brad Rzewnicki played a big
role in helping Seaside to a
second-place team finish at
districts last year. But the Fab
Four has graduated, forcing a
quick rebuilding job for head
coach Shane Spell.
And rebuild they did.
From a total of 18 swim-
mers last year, to 34 this year.
While the Gulls have re-
stocked the pool, they will
have to wait before they can
use it, as a remodeling project
EO MEDIA GROUP
Kendy Lin is in the senior year of a very successful high
school swimming career at Seaside.
has closed Sunset Pool tem-
porarily. As a result, the entire
team has to hop on a bus four
times per week and travel to
either Nehalem or the Astoria
Aquatic Center for practices.
In the meantime, Sea-
side has “lots of young, new
swimmers who have been
working hard and having a
great attitude about hopping
on that bus each day,” Spell
said. “I’m pretty confident
we’ll have some big surprises
before the season is over.”
The first month of the season
GIRLS
Yaneli Aguilera, Jr.
Sierra Bailey, So.
Xcaret Bello, So.
Cailin Bennett, Jr.
Brooke Blankenhorn, Fr.
Maddy Brown, Jr.
Ashley Conrad, So.
Jacie Gregory, So.
Anna Huddleston, Jr.
Vanessa Hughes, Jr.
Kaisa Liljenwall, So.
will be all road meets for the
Gulls, “and then every Thursday
in January we’ll be at home,”
Spell said. “We’re looking for-
ward to practicing in our home
pool, once the Sunset Empire re-
modeling project is complete.”
Currently, the team has
Kendy Lin, Jr.
Kimberly Mella, Jr.
Tyler Miller, So.
Riley Mitchell, So.
Lola Paser-Johnson, Fr.
Emily Philbrook, Fr.
Aviana Pierce, Fr.
Bella Samuelson, So.
Lisette Santiago, So.
Peyton Sims, Fr.
Kara Spell, So.
Anastasia Tarvin, So.
“more bus time than water
time, but we’re appreciative
of everyone who has made it
possible for us to get that prac-
tice time,” said Spell, referring
to the Astoria Aquatic Center,
and Nehalem’s North County
Recreation District.
go
gulls
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BOYS
Dawson Blanchard, Sr.
Isaiah Collins, Sr.
Shawn Collins, Fr.
Leif DeWinter, Fr.
Henry Garvin, Fr.
Nick Konya, Jr.
Axel Martinez, Jr.
Lucas Nagle, Sr.
Joao Pedro Polles, Sr.
Chris Quashnick, Jr.
Josh Shipley, Jr.
Key returners for the Gulls
this season include state qual-
ifier Kendy Lin in the girls’
200-yard freestyle, while
Isaiah Collins returns for the
boys, after swimming the lead
leg for the state qualifying
200-yard medley relay team.
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