Mountain boys end second at residence April Fools Invite

Mountain View swim coach Wietse Wullink lately had this system’s document board behind the blocks on the Mountain View Aquatic Center up to date with new marks set by the boys crew final spring and the ladies crew a number of weeks in the past.

A month into the 2026 boys season, it’s already outdated.

The Mountain Lions broke a pair of faculty relay data, together with one which had stood for 11 years, en path to a second-place end at their residence April Fools Invite on Saturday.

Windsor gained the meet with 565 factors. Mountain View completed second with 447. Loveland was sixth with 206 and Thompson Valley was seventh with 88.

Mountain View opened the meet by ending second within the 200-yard medley relay in a school-record time of 1 minute, 39.01 seconds. The foursome of Kane Willis, Owen Kolowski, Zac Chang and JJ Phillips changed the document the relay set final 12 months (1:40.11).

The Mountain Lions closed the meet with one other document, one they’d been chasing for a while. The foursome of Willis, Phillips, Cooper Farland and Nathan Dicks gained the 400 freestyle relay in 3:22.52, changing the previous document of three:23.67 that had stood since 2015.

“We’ve had it coming for a while now and on Thursday, at our last meet, we were all kind of winded and tired,” Dicks mentioned. “But I think today, that was our focus to get that record.”

Mountain View acquired a number of state meet cuts on the day and a number of other high finishes in opposition to a few of the groups of their convention.

Phillips took first within the 200 freestyle (1:50.74) and second within the 50 freestyle (21.66), the latter simply behind Rocky Mountain’s Sam Lofstrom’s 21.55.

The 200 freestyle was the one particular person occasion the Mountain Lions gained, however they’d a number of different swimmers end within the high six of their occasions.

In the 50 freestyle, Willis was fourth in 23.12 and Farland was sixth in 23.19. Chang was fifth within the 100 butterfly in 57.73. Farland was second (51.27), Kolowski fourth (52.01) and Dicks fifth (52.12) within the 100 freestyle. Willis was third (54.94) and Jackson Willard fifth (59.82) within the 100 backstroke. Kolowski was fourth (1:06.86) and Justice Madonna sixth (1:08.35) within the 100 breaststroke.

The Mountain Lions additionally gained the 200 freestyle relay. The foursome of Farland, Kolowski, Dicks and Sawyer Ingraham was first in 1:34.19.

“As a team, we’re doing really well,” Dicks mentioned. “We’ve talked to the team, and we have a chance to win our conference. So, that’s kind of given us a lot of motivation to put our pedal to the metal and just work, work, work.”

Loveland had a number of high finishes as properly, led by Alex Patricelli, a double-finalist on the 4A state meet final season.

Saturday’s meet was solely his second of the season, and he completed third within the 50 freestyle behind Lofstrom and Phillips in 22.19. He additionally led off Loveland’s second-place 400 freestyle relay, which completed in 3:29.56.

Patricelli is enlisting within the Marine Corps and leaves June 1 for fundamental coaching. He has been filling out paperwork and going to conferences, which delayed his begin to the season. He is happy to be again within the pool now, although.

“A lot of the meetings I have to do and paperwork really interfered with the swim season, and that kind of kept me out for a bit because I wanted to finish all that,” he mentioned. “But now that I’m back from all the medical exams and stuff, I’m so happy to be back in the pool, throwing it down with the guys. I went some decent times today.”

In addition to ending second within the 400 freestyle relay, the Red Wolves have been fourth within the 200 medley relay (1:45.79) and sixth within the 200 freestyle relay (1:39.64).

Other particular person highlights for the Red Wolves included Will Schneider, who was third within the 100 butterfly (57.11); Evan Phillips, who was third within the 100 freestyle (51.29); Calvin Lee, who was sixth within the 100 freestyle (52.42) and Brooks Rehnberg, who was sixth within the 500 freestyle (5:57.17).

Thompson Valley’s high particular person finisher was Cooper Christensen, who was second within the 100 breaststroke in 1:03.33. Christensen is a returning state qualifier and, on a crew with no seniors, one of many leaders of a younger Eagles crew.

He was additionally on Thompson Valley’s sixth-place 200 medley relay (1:52.92).

“It’s different from last year because we had multiple seniors,” Christensen mentioned. “This year we have none. We had a junior last year that unfortunately quit this year. I feel like we had some good freshmen coming in. I would say our team is good. Our team is for sure progressing, especially the kids that are freshmen.”

Thompson Valley diver Nathaniel Chou completed third within the 11-dive format with a state qualifying rating of 398.30.