Boys swimming: Our 2024 all-state team

Silver Creek’s Stephen Codevilla celebrates after winning the 100 Yard Backstroke during the Class 4A State Swimming and Diving Championship finals at the Veteran's Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer) — Silver Creek’s Stephen Codevilla celebrates after winning the 100 Yard Backstroke during the Class 4A State Swimming and Diving Championship finals at the Veteran’s Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

UPDATED: June 11, 2024 at 5:05 p.m.

Longmont Times-Call and Daily Camera boys’ swimmers of the year James Story and Gavin Keogh led 18 locals on the Colorado High School Activities Association’s all-state team.

Silver Creek’s Story won titles in the 100- and 200-yard freestyles at the Class 4A state meet last month, helping lead the Raptors to their third team title in program history.

Silver Creek's James Story, left, swims in the 200 Yard Medley Relay during the Class 4A State Swimming and Diving Championship finals at the Veteran's Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer) — Silver Creek’s James Story, left, swims in the 200 Yard Medley Relay during the Class 4A State Swimming and Diving Championship finals at the Veteran’s Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

The classification’s co-swimmer of the year was joined on 4A’s first team by teammates Stephen Codevilla, Chayakorn Ngampatipatpong and Justin Leyba, who together won the 200 medley relay. Codevilla also won the first individual title of his career in the 100 backstroke. Ngampatipatpong was third in the 100 breaststroke, eighth in the 200 IM. And coach Debbie Stewart was named 4A’s coach of the year.

Silver Creek's Chayakorn Ngampatipatpong, right, swims in the 200 Yard Medley Relay during the Class 4A State Swimming and Diving Championship finals at the Veteran's Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer) — Silver Creek’s Chayakorn Ngampatipatpong, right, swims in the 200 Yard Medley Relay during the Class 4A State Swimming and Diving Championship finals at the Veteran’s Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

Monarch’s Keogh had two top-four individual finishes at the 5A state meet, leading the Coyotes to an eighth-place finish. He had runner-up finishes in the 100 backstroke and the 200 freestyle relay, which included fellow 4A second-teamers JC Holmes, Tobin Howe and Ethan DiFronzo.

DiFronzo placed third in the 100 freestyle and fourth in the 50 free. He, Keogh and Holmes joined Leif Petricka for a fourth-place finish in the 400 free relay.

Gavin Keogh, of Monarch, during 5A Boys State Swim Championships on May 11, 2024.(Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)

Meanwhile, Fairview’s 400 free relay was named to the second team after finishing second at the 5A meet. James Kershaw, Soren Koschmann, Wesley Schlachter and Layton Sealman led the Knights to a fifth-place team finish.

Sealman also took third in the 50 free and fifth in the 100 free. Kershaw was fifth in the 200 IM and ninth in the 100 butterfly, and Koschmann was fourth in the 100 free. Schlachter was 10th in the 500 free.

Fairview's Layton Sealman poses for a photo at the South Boulder Recreation Center on April 12, 2024. (Alissa Noe/BoCoPreps.com) — Fairview’s Layton Sealman poses for a photo at the South Boulder Recreation Center on April 12, 2024. (Alissa Noe/BoCoPreps.com)

In honorable mentions, four swimmers were named from Broomfield’s eighth-place team finish in 4A. Individually, Nathan McCracken finished fifth in the 200 IM and sixth in the butterfly. Rhys Gibson was fifth in the 500 free, Riley Glass was eighth in the backstroke and Burke Frese was ninth in the 50 free.