Over the past two weekends state championships took place. Nov. 7-8, Division III swim in Paradise Valley and Nov. 15, Division III cross country at the Cave Creek Golf Course in Phoenix.
For the state swim an athlete must be in the top 40 to qualify for the preliminaries, in the top 16 for the finals in individual races and in the top 30 for the relays. Winslow Lady Bulldog Tatum Henling would come in eighth place in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.91 and 14th in the 100-yard butterfly with the time of 1:07.25 in the finals. In addition, freshman Jaylyn Hartman would make it preliminaries in the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle finishing 24th and 28th respectfully.
The Lady Bulldogs would have two relay teams that would also compete 200-yard freestyle that would finish 16th, that team was made up of Riley Alexander, Sydney Smith-Caldera, Hartman and Henling. The relay team would also compete in the 200-yard medley. Two members would swim in the preliminaries: Jakob Hartman in the 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard breaststroke finishing 29th and 27th, and Zack DeSpain would come in 27th in the 100-yard freestyle preliminaries.
For the state cross country competition this would be the first time in several years that Winslow would send both boys and girls teams together competing. The boys would end up in 15th place and the girls in 18th place. Bulldog Juelz Soke would come in sixth place with a time of 15:59.80. For the Lady Bulldogs, Sonway Masayesva would finish 61st with a time of 21:48.90.
