2025 Idaho High School Activities Association 6A State Championships
- Nov. 7-8, 2025
- Boise, Idaho
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Bishop Kelly girls swimming coach Ryan Stratton didn’t want to back down at all from the challenge.
Technically, his team, based on school enrollment should compete in the 5A classification in Idaho, not 6A, which is the largest of the two classifications.
But Stratton said his team wanted to be in 6A, and the recent state championships showed why.
The Bishop Kelly girls easily repeated as state champions, doing so with a great blend of seniors and underclassmen on the roster.
“We petitioned up to swim in 6A,” Stratton said. “We want to swim against the best, and to go back-to-back speaks for itself. We have a great senior leadership group. We’re going to miss them next year. But, man, we have a lot of rising stars that really carried the points for us today.”
The boys’ event was won by Owyhee, which became the first school other than Boise to win the state meet in Class 6A since the IHSAA started sanctioning swimming in 2018.
Owyhee was two points better than runner-up Boise despite sending just seven swimmers to the meet.
Girls’ Recap
Bishop Kelly left little doubt, winning eight of the 11 events contested.
Sophomores Sedona Stratton and Brayleigh Hoisington were the individual stars, each winning two events and being a part of two record-setting relay teams.
Stratton repeated as champion in both the 100 breaststroke (1:02.43) and 200 IM (2:03.28), doing so in personal best times.
Hoisington also set personal bests to repeat as champion in both the 200 free (1:51.69) and 100 back (57.63).
The two were also a part of winning teams in the 200 medley and 400 free relays that set state records.
In the 200 medley relay, Hoisington (27.16), Stratton (29.03), senior Katelyn Giffen (25.63) and sophomore Anna Beelaert (24.39) came in with a time of 1:46.21, which beat the old record of 1:46.50 set last year by Bishop Kelly.
In the 400 free relay, Giffen (53.60), Hoisington (52.68), Mueller (53.59) and Stratton (50.79) clocked a time of 3:30.66, which was 4.27 seconds better than the previous record set by Boise in 2015.
The 200 free relay was won by Lake City’s team of Sylvia Strow, Taylor Young, Erin Griffith and Tillie Sober in a time of 1:41.81.
Other individual winners were Ridgevue sophomore Myah Singhaophet in the 50 free (personal best 23.44), Giffen in the 100 fly (personal best 57.99), Lake City senior Quinn Taylor in the 100 free (personal best 53.99), and Beelaert in the 500 free (personal best 5:11.96).
Girls Team Standings — Top 5
- Bishop Kelly, 295
- Lake City, 217.5
- Coeur d’Alene, 131.5
- Mountain View, 125
- Timberline, 108
Boys’ Recap
It was a much more dramatic ending in the boys’ competition, with Owyhee narrowly ending Boise’s reign as champions.
Boise entered the 400 free relay needing to win it in order to claim the title, but Boise finished second by almost two seconds to Coeur d’Alene’s team of Andrew Davis, Jace Moeller, Owen Keith and Dawson Cushman.
That team came in with a time of 3:16.83 to clinch the title for Owyhee, while Boise finished at 3:18.73.
Owyhee won the other two relays, first when the team of Braydon Fong, Jedidiah Davis, Tobi Davis, and Kai Wilson won the 200 medley relay in a time of 1:38.15.
In the 200 free relay, the same quartet but a different order of T. Davis, J. Davis, Wilson and Fong won in a time of 1:27.11.
Fong, a junior, won two events, claiming the 50 free in 20.79 and the 100 free in a personal best time of 46.06.
The other multiple-event winner individually was Mountain View sophomore Ace Garcia, who won the 200 free in 1:43.37 and the 500 free in 4:41.66. His time in the 500 free was a personal best, while he swam a personal best 200 free time of 1:42.72 in prelims.
Other individual winners were Madison senior Taylor Poulsen in the 200 IM (personal best 1:55.22), Rigby senior Drew Hunter in the 100 fly (personal best 51.98), Boise senior Sam Shuler in the 100 back (personal best 51.60) and Canyon Ridge senior Chaz Attebury in the 100 breast (personal best 59.47).
Boys Team Standings — Top 5
- Owyhee, 158
- Boise, 156
- Timberline, 129
- Coeur d’Alene, 126
- Highland, 94
