INDIANAPOLIS — The Pendleton Heights girls swim team finished its 2017-18 season at the state finals at Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, with one Arabians swimmer finishing 14th overall in one event, and other teammates contributing to new school records.

On Friday, Feb. 9, senior McKenna Jule became the first Arabians girls swimmer to advance to state finals since Ashley Warner in 2004.

Jule began preliminaries by placing 20th in the 50-yard freestyle event with a time of 24.09. It was a hundredth of a second off her school record in the event and short of the top-16 finish needed to advance to Saturday’s finals.

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In her second event, the 100 freestyle, Jule finished 14th at 52.05, enough to move on to Saturday’s competition, where she finished 14th again with a time of 52.13.

Pendleton Heights’ 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams, comprised of Karly Riffey, Sarah Dudley, Emma Robison and Jule, swam in preliminaries but did not advance, despite setting school records.

The 200 freestyle team relay finished in 1:40.37 for 21st overall. That shaved .34 seconds off the previous school record.

The 400 freestyle relay team finished in 3:39.73, more than a second faster than the previous school record.