The girls 200 medley relay, the girls 400 freestyle relay, and freshman diver Sarah Krolnik will all travel to Austin to compete in the UIL state swimming and diving meet in Austin on Feb. 19-20.

Junior Emma Ream explained her preparation for state this weekend.

“I’m getting a lot of rest, eating healthy, focusing on my sleep,” Ream said. “And I’m not letting my nervousness overpower my excitement.”

Sophomore Sloan Carevic said she’s excited to be in Austin with the six other girls.

“Qualifying for state was an awesome feeling,” Carevic said. “It felt like all of this long season’s hard work really paid off.”

Head swimming coach Matthew Franks said, as a young team, the swimmers did a great job at regionals.

“We had several people who hadn’t made it to regionals last season wind up getting second swims for the first time,” Franks said.

At regionals, Krolnik finished second overall with a final score of 257.75. The girls 400 freestyle relay consisting of freshman Natalie Womack, freshman Juliette Pages, senior Glynn Gallaway and Ream finished fourth overall with a time of 3:50.17. The girls 200 medley relay made up of Pages, Carevic, Womack and Ream also placed fourth overall with a time of 1:53.56.

Krolnik says she felt she placed good and was happy with her results at regionals.

“I felt like I did really strong,” Krolnik said. “I broke my record again which is good.”

Krolnik is up for the Vype magazine DFW Girls Swimmer/Diver for the year. The poll will run until 9 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21.

On the boys side of regionals, freshman James Vaughn placed 9th in the boys 200  individual medley with a time of 2:02.71. Senior and captain Benjamin Omonira finished third in the boys 50 freestyle in the prelims, but was disqualified in the finals for a false start.

Omonira said that despite not getting the results in regionals he had hoped for, that he was still pleased with the bonds the team formed.

“The team was a family this year and that’s because I wanted it to be,” Omonira said. “Last year we were very disconnected and I just felt like the only way for us to grow was to invest in each other. One thing I really tried to do was to make us a family, always call each other ‘team’ and hold each other accountable. That ultimately made the team grow together and that’s what allowed us to go to regionals and carry a lot more people to regionals than we did last year.”