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Beaumont returns to state swim meet
Cody Beaumont is headed back to King County this weekend for the WIAA/Dairy Farmers of Washington/Les Schwab Tires Boys 2A Swim Championships.
Beaumont will swim the 100-meter breaststroke. The Quincy High School junior swam junior varsity for Eastmont during the regular season and got his shot as a solo swimmer for Quincy at districts.
“That was my first official 2A meet,” Beaumont said. “It’s a better competition, because I swim JV for Eastmont and it’s usually not the best people I’m swimming against.”
He stumbled at districts with a false start, though. He moved his feet during the start, which caused his best time of the season - 1:06 - to be all for naught.
“Usually they say, 'Please stand.' It also threw everyone else off, because they thought I was going to fall in,” Beaumont said.
Beaumont and his Eastmont coach thought he was disqualified from state despite earning an automatic bid a month ago with his swim of 1:09.5.
“(Eastmont coach April Cheadle) was pretty upset,” Beaumont said. “She talked to the ref after the meet and he said I still get to go to state since I made the time earlier in the season. It was a close call. I was shook up there.”
But after the meet was done, he found out his earlier qualifying time stood and he is now heading to the King County Pool in Federal Way this weekend. The preliminaries are Friday at 10 a.m.
This year he will be chasing Christopher Li of Pullman. They both went to state last year, but Li swims for the district champion Greyhounds, a team which competes at the varsity level all season.
“There’s a guy at districts I got second to, or I would have gotten second to if I wasn’t disqualified,” Beaumont said of Li. "He was a high 105, so he would have beat me. But last year I out-touched him at state. I got third, he got fourth.”
This coming weekend, he plans to take a couple of extra measures to speed up his chase of Li and the rest of the 100-meter breast participants. He plans to put on his “fast suit,” which is the fastest legal suit the WIAA allows, and shave his legs.
If he would have had both those advantages at districts, he might have qualified in the 50-free. The state qualifying time is 23.49.
“During district I was close. I got a 24.1 on the first day of districts,” Beaumont said. “I lost my fast suit that day and had to buy another one. I didn’t have it for the second day, so I was pretty upset. It was a bad weekend.”
He still heads to Federal Way for the breaststroke and looks to break into a new time bracket.
"I would be happy with a 1:05," he said. "I can't do any better than a 1:05, I think."
