The Coronado Cougars boys swim and dive team finished off their season with a 17th-place team finish at the state championship meet, accumulating 67 points and many personal records.

The Cougars started their individuals with amazing performances from Landon Jones, Class of 2027, who posted the team’s highest individual scores of the weekend. Jones finished eighth overall in the 100-yard breaststroke with a personal record time of 1:00.10, as well as a ninth-place finish in the 200-yard individual medley.

Emmett Coffin, Class of 2029, and Justus Schnakenberg, Class of 2026, also claimed top-16 finishes for Coronado. Coffin set personal records in both the 500-yard freestyle, placing 16th at 5:02.10, and the 200-yard freestyle, where he timed 1:49.62 for 22nd. Schnakenberg made it to the finals, taking 16th in the 100-yard freestyle with a personal record of 49.35 and 17th in the 50-yard freestyle.

Coronado’s relay teams helped to secure the team’s overall standings. The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Coffin, Schnakenberg, Jones, and Jackson Richardson, Class of 2026, scored the Cougars’ highest relay finish of the meet, finishing at the wall in 3:22.26 to take 13th place. The 200-yard freestyle relay squad finished 17th overall, while the 200-yard medley finished in 24th place.

Reflecting on the meet, the competitive environment, and the team’s hard work, Richardson said, “It went amazing; the boys were very prepared and excited to be there, in the end, very emotional for all of us.”The championship meet concludes the season for the Cougars, and the program says goodbye to its graduating senior class.