Four state-qualifying and first-team all-Wesco North athletes will form a strong nucleus on this fall’s Oak Harbor High School swim and dive team.

Among the returnees is senior Marissa Morris, who should add a few more pages to an already packed scrapbook.

Morris is a three-time, all-league swimmer, dominating the long freestyle events throughout her career.

Last fall she won league 200-meter freestyle for the third consecutive year and was a member of two winning relay teams. Also swimming on a winning relay team were junior Erica Sugatan and sophomores Jillian Pape and Taliah Black.

Black was also the Wesco North champ in the 100 breaststroke.

Morris (for the third time), Sugatan, Pape and Black all qualified for the state meet in 2014.

Morris was 16th in the 200 free and 17th in the 500 free, and Black swam 21st in the 100 breaststroke and on the 15th-place 200 medley relay.

Pape, Black and Morris finished 17th in the 200 free relay, and Sugatan was on the 19th-place 400 free relay team.

Other returning letter winners for the Wildcats are seniors Sophie Dickinson and Mariel Empinado and sophomores Anna Kate Fahey and Baelee Whitinger.

Coach Erin Bull welcomed a strong group of newcomers: juniors Angele Dennen, Mackenzie Judd and Maya Krantz; sophomores Shancie Crosby, Naomi Garcia, Caroline Jungman and Jada Rennes; and freshmen Jenna Flores, Kelly Gruenwald, Natalie Hahn and Autumn Smith.

Gruenwald and Hahn are divers and will be coached by new assistant Brittany Flynn-Johnson.

Bull said it will a successful season if all the athletes “meet their individual goals and feel positive about the effort that they put into the season.”

“I expect there to be respect and encouragement between teammates,” Bull said. “I expect 100 percent individual effort both in practice and at meets. My goal for the team is to be mentally and physically prepared for each meet that lies ahead.”

Oak Harbor, which finished 9-2 last year and second at district, opens the season at the Marysville Jamboree at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10. The first meet is 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, at Snohomish, and the home opener is 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, against Stanwood.