Port Angeles Swim Club excels at divisional meet
SILVERDALE — Port Angeles Swim Club had many top-10 finishes at the Fall Divisional Meet that took place at Olympic Aquatic Center earlier this month.
The club’s placers were:
■ Isa Benitez, age 13, placed sixth in 200-yard backstroke, ninth in the 100 Back, 10th in the 200 individual medley and 11th in 100 breaststroke.
■ Mina Bojarzin, 9, placed 10th in the 50 Freestyle and 50 butterfly, and 11th in the 100 IM.
■ Yau Fu, 9, placed seventh in the 50 breast and 50 fly. She also took eighth in the 50 back and 100 IM and ninth in the 50 free.
■ Sage Hunter, 11, was seventh in the 200 free, eighth in the 200 IM and 50 breast, 10th in the 50 free, 11th in the 50 back and 12th in 100 back.
■ Henry Shaw, 12, placed ninth in the 100 free and 10th in the 50 back.
■ Katelyn Sheldon, 13, placed 12th in 100 Back.
■ Sydney Swanson, 13, finished sixth in the 50 back and ninth in the 100 breast.
■ Finn Thompson, 8, was eighth in the 50 free and 11th in the 25 back. He also came in 12th in the 25 free, 25 breast and 25 fly.
■ Sara Wilson, 10, placed seventh in the 50 Fly, eighth in the 50 free and 11th in the 50 back.
New Year’s run/walk
PORT TOWNSEND — Being 2016 by running or walking Discovery Bay Golf Course and the Larry Scott Trail in the New Year’s Discovery 5K and
10K run/walk.
Runners and walkers start and finish at the golf course, located at 7401 Cape George Road, on Friday, Jan. 1, at 11 a.m.
Commemorative Olympic Discovery Trail hats and hot cocoa are available at the finish line.
The cost is $30 in advance and $35 the day of the race.
Register at www.tinyurl.com/PDN-2016Run.
Madison scoring
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Port Angeles High School graduate Jessica Madison is the third-leading scorer for the University of Alaska-Anchorage women’s basketball team, which is ranked fifth nationally by the USA Today and has a 15-1 record.
Madison averages 11.6 points per game. She and has led the Seawolves in scoring five times this season, including when she scores 17 points in their 78-56 home victory against in-state rival University of Alaska-Fairbanks on Dec. 12.
Madison shot 6 for 12 from the field and also had five rebounds and three assist. She is second on the team in minutes played.
Madison, a senior guard, also was named Denali Alaskan Seawolf Student-Athlete of the Week last week.
On Sunday, Madison scored 11 points in the Seawolves’ 76-72 win over UC-San Diego.
Updates on other area athletes elsewhere:
■ Faye Chartraw (Neah Bay, 2015) tied for the team lead with 15 points in the Lower Columbia College women’s basketball team’s 76-54 win over its alumni team Saturday. Chartraw also had six rebounds.
■ Former Peninsula College women’s basketball player Gabi Fenumiai was named the Cascade Conference Player of the Week last week.
Fenumiai, a junior center from Juneau, Alaska, earned the honor by averaging 20.3 points and 8.3 rebounds while shooting better than 50 percent from the field for Evergreen State College.