2025 WIAA 4A State Meet
- Feb. 20-22, 2025
- Federal Way, WA
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
It was a day that the Issaquah boys swim program had never experienced before. For the first time ever, Issaquah captured a state title, winning the 4A title by 17 points over runner-up Newport. 4A includes the biggest schools in Washington when it comes to enrollment classification.
Issaquah held an 11-point lead over Newport going into the final event, and the team of Owen Stauffer, Henry Holtan, Jae Lee and Aaron Bell won the 400 freestyle relay in a time of 3:07.22, nearly a full second ahead of Newport’s time of 3:08.14 to wrap up the title.
Issaquah also won the 200 medley relay, with the team of Owen Stauffer, Harrison Li, Bell and Aiden Stauffer clocking a winning time of 1:32.79.
Bell was also one of the individual standouts of the meet. He first won the 50 freestyle in an exciting race, coming in with a personal-best time of 20.23, just 12 one-hundredths ahead of Wenatchee senior and defending champion Ben Madson.
Bell later won the 100 free in a personal-best time of 44.55.
The other individual standout was Jackson freshman Syunta Lee, who won the 200 individual medley in a personal-best time of 1:46.66 and the 500 free in a personal-best time of 4:24.56.
Redmond senior Jaiden Sreenivasan, who will swim in college for the Naval Academy, repeated as champion in the 200 free with a personal-best time of 1:36.90, which topped his previous best by 4.08 seconds.
Sreenivasan also swam anchor for Redmond’s 200 free relay team which won that event in a time of 1:25.15. Other team members were Aiden Li, Daniel Xia and Nathan Petchdenlarp.
Other individual winners were:
- Mount Rainer senior Landon Griffith won the diving event with 456.00 points, taking the title this year after finishing third last year.
- Newport senior Nathan Xu won the 100 butterfly in 49.08, coming in just 1 one-hundredths ahead of Cam Blevins-Mohr of Lake Stevens. Xu finished third in the event last year.
- After the close finish in the 50 free, Madson repeated as champion in the 100 back, clocking a time of 47.82. He has signed to swim in college for Missouri.
- Eastlake junior Justin Brown won the 100 breaststroke in a time of 56.27. It was his first state title.
Team Standings — Top 5
- Issaquah, 238
- Newport, 221
- Tahoma, 204
- Redmond, 191
- Skyline, 185.5
