ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Alaska Nanooks swim team earned a seventh-place finish on the final day of the PCSC Championships at Dixie State. The 'Nooks earned a total of 405.5 points.

The final day consisted of the 200-yard backstroke, 100-yard free, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly, 400-yard free relay and finally, the 1650-yard free. Two Nanooks qualified for the 1650-yard freestyle. Payton Wojciechowicz led the way, finishing 11th-place on a time of 18:13.83. Caroline McCormick finished 17th with a time of 18:40.01. Nella Pashak was the lone-Nanook to qualify for the 100-yard butterfly. In the finals, the freshman posted a 24th-place finish and a time of 54.52. 

Emma Corby and McCormick qualified for the 200-yard breaststroke. Corby swam to a seventh-place finish in the A-Finals. She posted a finals time of 2:26.30 while McCormick followed in 14th-place and a time of 2:31.51 in the B-Finals. Sophia Ruppert raced her way to a fifth-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly, posting a 2:09.08 in the A-Finals. Gabrielle Davy joined Ruppert in the finals, finishing in 21st-place with a time of 2:23.21. The final event for the Nanooks was the 400-yard freestyle relay. A team of Nella Pashak, Emma Corby, Sophia Ruppert and Lainey Lioi finished seventh in the finals, swimming to a time of 3:35.74. 

Best Times on the Weekend

• 1000 Free- Kylee Carter
• 500 Free- Kylee Carter, Payton Wojciechowicz
• 200 Free- Kylee Carter, Sophia Ruppert
• 50 Free- Nella Pashak, Cassie Erdman, Lainey Lioi
• 200 Fly- Sophia Ruppert
• 200 Breast- Emma Corby
• 400 IM- Carol McCormick, Shannon McCallum
• 100 Back- Cassie Erdman

Head coach was very proud of her team's work this weekend and season, "I'm very proud with how the team did at our Conference Championships and overall this season. We had 12 personal best-times, numerous season-bests, three relays finished top-eight, and we had four individual top-eight finishes. We placed seventh overall, which is a better spot than we were before COVID. I'm also very proud of the teams' sportsmanship with each other and other teams. I had several coaches tell me my athletes were being kind to everyone. I will miss our seniors dearly and I am proud of all their hard work throughout their years as Nanooks!"

The Nanooks celebrated four seniors at the final day of PCSC Championships; Emma Corby, Gabrielle Davy, Whitney McArthur and Jessica Williamson. 

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