The Sisters High School swim team competed in their first meet on Friday, December 3, at Sweet Home.

This was the inaugural swimming competition for many of the swimmers. The competitors were required to test their skills in the individual strokes, master a 25-yard pool and starting blocks for their dives and also combine technique with timing on the relays.

Senior Captain Chelsea Durdan-Shaw had to study for the a college entrance test and did not compete. Lacking her leadership, the swimmers competed in seven out of eight events.

With help from veterans - Captain Dana Hughie and Captain Hilary Hedemark, along with Jarnie Cundiff - they posted some good base times for the beginning of the season.

Jacquelien Mansker, Tessa Durdan-Shaw, Heidi Whipps, Jessie Durham, Anna Evered and Chelsea Meudt showed the other teams that they are going to be a force to be reckoned with.

Sisters did not have a boys' relay at the event.

The 200-yard medley relay included Cundiff (backstroke), Hughie (breaststroke), Hedemark (fly), and Meudt (freestyle). They were runner-up to Sweet Home but outtouched Marist by .2 seconds. The second event of the afternoon was the 400 freestyle relay. Each swimmer had to swim a different distance. Evered led with 50 yards; Whipps followed with a 100-yard sector; Hedemark swam the 200-yard segment and Durdan-Shaw anchored with a 50-yard segment. The girls placed third.

The next event was a 4x100 individual medley relay. Each of the four girls swam their own 100-yard IM (one length of each stroke).

The 200-yard freestyle relay marked the halfway point of the meet. Cundiff led off, followed by Durham and Mansker and anchored by Whipps.

Sisters won second place in the 200-yard backstroke relay. Tessa Durdan-Shaw, following in her sister's footsteps, led off the race, with Cundiff second, Evered third, and Hedemark swimming anchor.

In the 200-yard breaststroke relay, the girls demonstrated their ability to master this technically difficult stroke. Whipps, Durham, Mansker, and Evered pulled together and clocked outstanding times.

The 400-yard freestyle relay concluded the meet. Durdan-Shaw, Hedemark, Hughie, and Cundiff combined for a third place finish.