Camas Boys Swim Team Excels at Thursday's Propstra Meet

VANCOUVER, WA — The Papermaker Boys Swim Team came out ahead at Thursday’s Propstra Aquatic Center meet against Hudson’s Bay, Columbia River, and Washougal.

Pushing along in their quest to defend their State title, the boys made do at the swim meet without some key swimmers, who were traveling to a private swim club meet up north.

Their absence created a little shifting during key relay events giving underclassmen Dave Peddie, Luke Bales, and Ben Taylor the opportunity to swim a relay with State champion, Mark Kim.

“We just finished our 200 Free Relay,” said Peddie. “The Camas A team got first place, and our times are not bad for this point in the season, but we can definitely build on that, and keep improving.”

Bales, a sophomore, agreed.

“We were led by Mark Kim so that’s a really good thing,” said Bales. “And personally, I hit a PR in the event.”

Propstra Swim Meet Stats

Here’s how things turned out, by event.

200 Free Medley Relay:

1st Place: Camas High School (1:51.31) – Junha Lee, Jakob Duerfeldt, Luke Bales, Austin Fogel.
2nd Place: Columbia River High School (1:51.84) – Daniel Ishchuk, Ben Phelps, Elijah Parish, Simon Parish.
3rd Place: Camas High School (1:57.62) – Sullivan Carrick, Jacob Fenley, James Hatch

200 Free

1st Place: Junha Lee (2:01.74), of Camas.
2nd Place: Ben Taylor (2:08.4), of Camas.
3rd Place: Colin Helt (2:27.3), of Columbia River.

Luke Bales starts his relay event.

200 Individual Medley (IM)

1st Place: Austin Fogel (2:08.92), of Camas.
2nd Place: Dave Peddie (2:17.15), of Camas.
3rd Place: Simon Parish (2:17.45), of Columbia River.

50 Free

1st Place: Mark Kim (23.46 seconds), of Camas.
2nd Place: Isaiah Ross (23.85 seconds), of Washougal.
3rd Place: Ben Phelps (24.30 seconds), of Columbia River.

100 Butterfly

1st Place: Jaden Kim (56.33 seconds), of Camas.
2nd Place: Austin Fogel (58.02 seconds), of Camas.
3rd Place: Daniel Brown (58.82 seconds), of Camas.

100 Free

1st Place: Isaiah Ross (51.23 seconds), of Washougal.
2nd Place: Daniel Ishchuk (55.86 seconds), of Columbia River.
3rd Place: Jack Harris (57.29 seconds), of Camas.

500 Free

1st Place: Jaden Kim (5:23.53), of Camas.
2nd Place: Simon Parish (5:23.53), of Columbia River.
3rd Place: Victor Wu (6:14.81), of Camas.

200 Free Relay

1st Place: Camas High School (1:36.52) – Mark Kim, Luke Bales, Dave Peddie, Ben Taylor.
2nd Place: Columbia River High School (1:39.39) – Elijah Parish, Daniel Ishchuk, Ben Phelps, Simon Parish.
3rd Place: Camas High School (1:44.90) – Timchenko Timofey, Victor Wu, Jakob Duerfeldt, Jack Harris.

100 Backstroke

1st Place: Mark Kim (58.84), of Camas.
2nd Place: Daniel Ishchuk (1:01.35), of Columbia River.
3rd Place: Daniel Brown (1:02.10), of Washougal.

100 Breaststroke

1st Place: Danilo Kamenko (1:12.05), of Camas.
2nd Place: Jakob Duerfeldt (1:12.95), of Camas.
3rd Place: Elijah Parish (1:14.20), of Columbia River.

400 Free Relay

1st Place: Camas High School (3:36.25) – Jaden Kim, Austin Fogel, Mark Kim.
2nd Place: Camas High School (3:54.85) – Dave Peddie, Ben Taylor, Luke Bales, Timchenko Timofey.
3rd Place: Camas High School (4:03.56) – Josef Kiesenhofer, Jack Harris, Danilo Kamenko, Victor Wu.

To learn more, visit www.chs.camas.wednet.edu