West Fargo's Linnea Bruns grabs first state swim title, then some more

WEST FARGO — After winning the 200-yard freestyle in Friday’s preliminaries, West Fargo sophomore Linnea Bruns swam nearly the exact same speed on Saturday to win her first North Dakota state swimming event. It wasn’t her last, either. Bruns broke her own record she set Friday to capture the state’s 500 title and anchored the Packers to first place in the 200 free relay at the North Dakota state swimming and diving championships at Hulbert Aquatic Center. “I am extremely excited. I’ve never won an event before at state,” said Bruns, who won twice at the Eastern Dakota Conference meet on Nov. 7. “I’ve worked like nine months for this, so it’s very exciting. And the team, we all got along this year and it was a really fun season for me.” Bruns swam Friday’s 200 prelim in 1 minute, 53.15 seconds and swam 0.02 seconds faster to win Saturday’s final, edging Century’s Molly Osadchy by 0.83 seconds.

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