Camas High Boys Swimming Beats Kelso at First Meet

KELSO — The Camas High School Boys Swim team won its first Dual meet of the new season — Camas 123, Kelso 54.

“This is an excellent start to the season,” said Head Coach, Mike Bemis. “There were some really good swims by our team. We had some state qualifying times by several swimmers. We’re really happy.”

The 200-medley relay team of Kasey Calwell, Jake Yraceburu, Lucas Ulmer and John Utas qualified for state with a 1:43.08 time. Calwell qualified for state in the 200 IM with a time of 2:02.84.

“Kasey missed the 100 free state cut by by one-tenth of a second,” said Bemis. “He’s really close to what he did at state last season, and look how early it is.”

Lucas Ulmer was part of the 200-medly relay team that qualified
for a state time at the Kelso meet on Tuesday.

Camas collected 21 district qualifying times at the meet, which included Ulmer and Utas, who were within one second of their state qualifying times in the 100 free. Yraceburu missed the state qualifying time in the 100 breaststroke by .2 of a second.

Other highlights included Seth Albert in the 500 free, who dropped 30 seconds off his performance from a year ago.

“Seth’s performance really highlights how well the team did,” said Bemis.

Max Urbanek earned best times in the 200 free and 100 fly.

The next meet is this Thursday at David Douglas High School in Portland.