2025 CHSAA 5A State Championships
Pine Creek moved as much as the 5A Classification this yr, however that didn’t cease senior Madi Mintenko from swimming her manner into the historical past books. Mintenko gained the 200 and 500 freestyle double on the 2025 CHSAA 5A State Championships, making her the third woman to go undefeated in particular person occasions on the State Championships over her highschool profession. Missy Franklin and Anna Trinidad are the one different swimmers to go eight-for-eight of their state championship profession.
Throughout prelims, Mintenko, a Virginia commit, took down Franklin’s Colorado state file within the 500 freestyle. She swam 4:39.79, erasing Franklin’s 4:41.72 file from 2013 by 1.93 seconds. She almost broke Franklin’s 200 freestyle state file within the occasion finals, securing her first particular person title of the meet with a 1:43.20, five-hundredths from Franklin’s mark.
Although Mintenko was simply off Franklin’s 200 freestyle file, the five hundred freestyle mark wasn’t the one state file by the five-time Olympic gold medalist that received damaged. Within the last occasion of the meet, Cherry Creek’s quartet of Ana Loveridge, Jenna Fernstrom, Madison Williams, and Kate McKinnon swam 3:21.52, breaking Franklin and Regis Jesuit’s file from 2011 by nine-tenths.
“We knew there was an opportunity we might break that file,” Cherry Creek coach Karin Olmstead Dinsdale informed CHSAANow. “It was fairly previous, however we knew we had a extremely good likelihood. That was actually particular to exit and try this within the final race.”
The dash freestyle occasions had been key for Cherry Creek, which gained its fifth-straight state championship by 144 factors over Regis Jesuit. The freshman McKinnon was integral to Cherry Creek’s victory; she swam on two profitable relays and swept the dash freestyle occasions in her debut state championships.
McKinnon swam 22.79 to win the 50 freestyle, reducing her lifetime finest by .14 seconds to win her first state title. Later, she was proper on her lifetime finest to win the 100 freestyle, swimming 49.91. Cherry Creek made a giant transfer within the 50 freestyle as McKinnon, Loveridge, Fernstrom, and Clara Paterson touched first, third, fourth, and tenth.
Boulder Excessive Faculty junior Hazel Huilman matched McKinnon with two particular person occasion wins. She gained the 100 butterfly in 53.48, then swam a lifetime better of 1:02.11 to say the 100 breaststroke.
Freshman Elliana Wiesen gained a decent race within the 200 IM, out-touching Thunder Ridge sophomore Annabeth City by five-hundredths. Wiesen clocked 2:03.42, holding off a late cost from City, who stopped the clock in 2:03.47.
Heritage senior Elise Ramsden gained the 100 backstroke (56.11) whereas Fossil Ridge earned gold within the 200 freestyle relay (1:34.66) to spherical out the state title winners within the pool.
High 10 Ultimate Outcomes:
- Cherry Creek — 456
- Regis Jesuit — 312
- Fairview — 226
- Arapahoe — 223
- Pine Creek — 218
- Valor Christian — 187
- Fossil Ridge — 182
- Boulder — 176
- Heritage — 156
- Rocky Mountain — 148
