JDHS tops field in Friday Region V preliminary swims

Crimson Bears ready for Saturday championship finals 

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé’s Adeline Williams competes in the women’s 1-meter dive during the Region V Swim and Dive Championship at the Gateway Aquatic Center on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (Christopher Mullen/Ketchikan Daily News)

By Klas Stolpe

Juneau Independent

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé performed well in Friday’s preliminary rounds at the 2025 Southeast Region V Swim and Dive Championships at Ketchikan’s Gateway Aquatic Center.

The Crimson Bears won eight of nine girls' events and qualified enough girls to earn 35 starting blocks for Saturday. The boys had no first-place finishes but earned 18 starting blocks.

“Stig (assistant coach Cunningham) and I are really proud of how our divers performed this evening in preliminaries,” JDHS dive coach Savona Kiessling said. “We saw some excellent form and execution on a variety of dives today and we are looking forward to watching them perform tomorrow in semifinals and finals.”

Saturday finals will also include the girls and boys Medley Relay, 200 free relay and 400 free relay.

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé’s Amy Liddle competes in the women’s 100-yard butterfly prelims, finishing first during the Region V Swim and Dive Championship at the Gateway Aquatic Center on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (Christopher Mullen/Ketchikan Daily News)

FRIDAY PRELIMS (Top 8 advance to Saturday Finals)

GIRLS

200 Free – 1) Cora Soboleff (JD) 2:08.24; 2) Annabelle Woodruff 2:08.87; 3) Bella Miller (Petersburg) 2:09.90; 4) Maddox Rasmussen (JD) 2:11.84; 5) Mia Turner (Sitka) 2:11.91; 6) Brook Taintor (JD) 2:15.06; 7) Olivia Hinde (Petersburg) 2:19.03; 8) Macie Bullock (Kayhi) 2:44.68

200 IM — 1) Amy Liddle (JD) 2:18.31; 2) Avery Smith (JD) 2:23.78; 3) Josephine Jackson (Kayhi) 2:28.91; 4) Riley Soboleff (JD) 2:40.40; 5) Delphine Hochstoeger (JD) 2:41.62; 6) Arabella Nore (Wrangell) 3:13.00

50 Free — 1) Lily Francis (JD) 25.02; 2) Lexie Tow (Petersburg) 25.42; 3) Bailey Fisher (JD) 26.21; 4) Katya Foy (JD) 26.55; 5) Brooklyn Whitethorn (Petersburg) 26.57; 6) Maddie Manlulu (JD) 27.37; 7) Payton McCOy (Craig) 27.98; 8) Evi Rice (Sitka) 28.22; 9) Grace Maygren (Craig) 28.47; 10) Piper Bonzo (Kayhi) 28.65; 11) Abigail McCoy (Craig) 31.06; 12) Delilah Clark (Sitka) 32.48; 13) Lina Merrill (Kayhi) 33.37; 14) Kailee Stock (Craig) 33.60; 15) Amura Roher (Wrangell) 34.82; 16) Raine Wagner (Kayhi) 35.69

 1-meter diving — 1) Taylor Mesdag (JD) 147.25; 2) Moria Bahn (JD) 141.30; 3) Adeline Williams (JD) 119.75; 4) Mia Calvin (Kayhi) 117.60; 5) Ellie Johnson (Kayhi) 116.30; 6) Lina Merrill (Kayhi) 109.45

100 Butterfly — 1) Amy Liddle (JD) 1:00.31; 2) Taryn Fleming (Sitka) 1:00.64; 3) Annabelle Woodruff (JD) 1:02.93; 4) Kennedy Miller (JD) 1:03.25; 5) Avery Smith (JD) 1:03.28; 6) Payton mcCoy (Craig) 1:15.29; 7) Arabella Nore (Wrangell) 1:30.04

100 Free — 1) Valerie Peimann (JD) 54.79; 2) Lily Francis (JD) 55.35; 3) Deedee Mills (JD) 57.20; 4) Brooklyn Whitethorn (Petersburg) 57.50; 5) Kaelyn Szefler (JD) 58.03; 6) Piper Bonzo (Kayhi) 1:03.18; 7) Johanna Sanfrod (Wrangell) 1:05.33; 8) Abigail McCoy (Craig) 1:09.78; 9) Macie Bullock (Kayhi) 1:14.50; 10) Raine Wagner (Kayhi) 1:18.39; 11) Amura Roher (Wrangell) 1:21.35

500 Free — 1) Cora Soboleff (JD) 5:40.04; 2) Bella Miller (Petersburg) 5:42.46; 3) Mia Turner (Sitka) 5:50.58; 4) Maddox Rasmussen (JD 5:55.46; 5) Olivia Hinde (Petersburg) 6:14.75; 6) Brook Taintor (JD) 6:16.96; 7) Hannah Plang (JD) 6:37.23; 8) Ella Bullock (Kayhi) 6:53.76

100 Back — 1) Taryn Fleming (Sitka) 1:01.39; 2) Deedee Mills (JD) 1:01.54; 3) Katya Foy (JD) 1:06.35; 4) Kaelyn Szefler (JD) 1:07.95; 5) Maddie Manlulu (JD) 1:11.87; 6) Mia Calvin (Kayhi) 1:14.71; 7) Johanna Sanford (Wrangell) 1:16.16; 8) Delilah Clark (Sitka) 1:24.29

100 Breast — 1) Valerie Peimann 9JD) 1:07.46; 2) Lexie Tow (Petersburg) 1:09.79; 3) Kennedy Miller (JD) 1:11.64; 4) Riley Soboleff (JD) 1:16.32; 5) Evi Rice (Sitka) 1:17.36; 6) Josephine Jackson (Kayhi) 1:18.19; 7) Grace Maygren (Craig) 1:21.21; 8) Mae Crocker (JD) 1:23.72; 9) Kailee Stock 9Craig) 1:36.58

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé’s, Josh Edwards does the breaststroke as he competes in the men’s 200-yard IM prelims, finishing third in his heat during the Region V Swim and Dive Championship at the Gateway Aquatic Center on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (Christopher Mullen/Ketchikan Daily News)

BOYS

200 Free — 1) Logan Tow (Petersburg) 1:51.87; 2) JP Robbins (Kayhi) 1:55.08; 3) Levi Phelps (JD) 1:55.81; 4) Phin Edwards (Sitka) 1:58.71; 5) Gabe Aldrich (JD) 1:59.98; 6) Hunter Eckert (Kayhi) 2:00.31; 7) Wyatt Kirkness (Sitka) 2:06.67; 8) Chedi Giron (JD) 2:07.24; 9) Odin Emley (Sitka) 2:28.79; 10) Gus Becker (Sitka) 2:29.04

200 IM — 1) Gavin Harold (Kayhi) 1:59.46; 2) Zach Martens (Sitka) 2:04.09; 3) Josh Edwards (JD) 2:07.50; 4) Liam Kiessling (JD) 2:09.39; 5) Nate Duran (Kayhi) 2:22.46; 6) Liam McCoy (Craig) 2:27.36; 7) Axel Boily (JD) 2:29.20; 8) Jake Peterson (Sitka) 2:39.97

50 Free — 1) Parker Hagan (Kayhi) 22.64; 2) Kaden Aldrich (JD) 22.95; 3) James Nellis (Sitka) 24.04; 4) Elliott Galanin (Sitka) 24.23; 5) Liam Woodward (Kayhi) 24.57; 6) Sam Pallenberg (JD) 24.80; 7) Joseph Wilson (Craig), Vincent Hayes (JD) 25.41 (tie); 9) Keagan Andrews (JD) 25.73; 10) Andrei Siekawitch (Wrangell), Erik Chevalier (Sitka) 26.27 (tie); 12) Lincoln Bergtold (Craig) 31.78; 13) Peter Houser (Wrangell) 35.85

1-meter diving — 1) Liam Woodward (Kayhi) 146.45; 2) Easton Berger (JD) 140.85; 3) Jett Miller (Kayhi) 109.00; 4) Alex Davis (JD) 83.10

100 Butterfly — 1) Evan Dash (Kayhi) 53.94; 2) Tommy McCarthy (Sitka) 55.78; 3) Levi Phelps (JD) 57.79; 4) Hunter Eckert (Kayhi) 58.80; 5) Nate Duran (Kayhi) 58.84; 6) Gabe Aldrich (JD) 1:00.21; 7) Joseph Wilson (Craig) 1:02.44; 8) Liam McCoy (Craig) 1:07.40; 9) Ben Pallenberg (JD) 1:10.08; 10) Jake Peterson (Sitka) 1:15.21

100 Free — 1) Logan Tow (Petersburg) 48.91; 2) Corin Colliver (Sitka) 48.29; 3) Parker Hagan (Kayhi), Kaden Aldrich (JD) 49.33 (tie); 5) Isaiah McCoy (Craig) 51.93; 6) James Nellis (Sitka) 52.44; 7) Sam Pallenberg (JD) 53.71; 8) Max Meredith (Kayhi) 54.22; 9) Keagan Andrews (JD) 1:04.17

500 Free — 1) Zach Martens (Sitka) 5:02.66; 2) JP Robbins (Kayhi) 5:17.22; 3) Phin Edwards (Sitka) 5:17.29; 4) AIden Eldridge (Kayhi) 5:27.74; 5) Henry Thatcher (JD) 5:37.59; 6) Cheid Giron (JD) 5:38.08; 7) Vincent Hayes (JD) 5:39.66; 8) Wyatt Kirkness (Sitka) 5:44.92; 9) Clive Mateo (JD) 5:48.50

100 Back — 1) Gavin Harold (Kayhi) 54.40; 2) Liam Kiessling (JD) 55.33; 3) AIden Eldridge (Kayhi) 1:03.54; 4) Clive Mateo (JD) 1:05.00; 5) Gus Becker (Sitka) 1:23.62; 6) Odin Emley (Sitka) 1:24.49

100 Breast — 1) Evan Dash (Kayhi) 1:01.38; 2) Max Meredith (Kayhi) 1:03.94; 3) Josh Edwards (JD) 1:04.61; 4) Erik Chevalier (Sitka) 1:12.50; 5) Axel Boily (JD) 1:13.59; 6) Henry Thatcher (JD) 1:16.49; 7) Ben Pallenberg (JD) 1:17.52; 8) Andrei Siekawitch (Wrangell) 1:18.82; 9) Lincoln Bergtold (Craig) 1:36.10.

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Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé’s Lily Francis finishes first in her heat of the women’s 100-yard freestyle during the Region V Swim and Dive Championship at the Gateway Aquatic Center on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (Christopher Mullen/Ketchikan Daily News)