{"id":38410,"date":"2016-09-02T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiwnt.wpengine.com\/news\/fall-prep-preview-oak-harbor-swim-and-dive-2\/"},"modified":"2016-10-13T20:45:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T03:45:24","slug":"fall-prep-preview-oak-harbor-swim-and-dive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/sports\/fall-prep-preview-oak-harbor-swim-and-dive-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall prep preview | Oak Harbor swim and dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>First-year Oak Harbor High School swim and dive coach Jenny Butler \u201ccouldn\u2019t be happier\u201d with the beginning of the 2016 season, particularly with Wildcats\u2019 dedication.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>With John Vanderzicht Memorial Pool unavailable for the first two weeks of practice because of maintenance, the Oak Harbor team, all 38, traveled to Anacortes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cThat’s on top of an hour of dry-land training three times a week,\u201d Butler said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Butler inherits 10 letter winners from a team that was 4-0 in the Wesco North and 7-5 overall last fall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Returning are seniors Angele Dennen, Maya Krantz and Erica Sugatan; juniors Taliah Black, Shanice Crosby, Naomi Garcia, Jillian Pape and Baelee Whitinger; and sophomores Kelly Gruenwald and Natalie Hahn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Also back is senior captain Maddy Harstad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Pape was first-team, all-league and the district champion in the 50 free last year; she went on to place 13th at state. She took fourth at district and 20th at state in the 100 butterfly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Black was fourth in the district and 21st at state in the 100 breaststroke.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Whitinger was on the Wesco first-team 400 free relay squad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>She joined Black, Sugatan and Pape to finish second at district in the 200 medley relay and 22nd at state.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Black, Sugatan and Pape also earned second at district and 22nd at state in the 200 free relay.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Talented junior Olivia Tungate has joined the team this season after swimming with a club for two years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Senior Molly Vogt also returns after lettering as a sophomore.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cThe girls are all working hard and focused on getting in shape as fast as possible,\u201d Butler said. However, \u201cWe don’t have a lot of time to prepare for the finer aspects of swimming, such as starts\/turns\/stroke technique before our first meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The season will be a success, according to Butler, if everyone has fun, supports each other and improves.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Oak Harbor will compete in the Marysville Jamboree at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, and then returns to Marysville-Pilchuck for the first meet, which will also include Marysville Getchell, at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The first home meet is 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, with Monroe.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-year Oak Harbor High School swim and dive coach Jenny Butler \u201ccouldn\u2019t be happier\u201d with the beginning of the 2016 season, particularly with Wildcats\u2019 dedication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":38411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-38410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38410"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whidbeynewstimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}