Northshore’s Lady Panthers won the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Division I state swimming championship last Friday at the Sulphur Parks and Recreation Aquatic Center.

“I’ve waited a long time for something like that,” NHS coach Ed Kelly said. “It’s a credit to the girls. They work hard. They set the individual and team goals. Our goal was to win the majority of our meets. Then we reached the ultimate goal.”

NHS won with 337 points, 100 more than runner-up St. Joseph’s Academy. Twenty-four teams qualified for points.

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Mt. Carmel (176) finished third, followed by Mandeville (165.5) and Fontainebleau (147).

St. Scholastica Academy (146) took sixth, and Slidell (38) was 16th.

Northshore had two double winners, Heather Winn and Colleen Donovan.

Winn captured the 200- and 500-yard freestyle. Winn won the 200 free in 1:54 over C.E. Byrd’s Helen Dorsett (1:57). Winn took the 500 free in 5:03 by eight seconds over St. Thomas More’s Aimee Richard.

Donovan came out on top of the 100 free and the 200 individual medley. She won the 100 free in 53.55 over Mandeville’s Brittany Alexander (54.18). She captured the 200 IM 2:09, while Dorsett was second (2:12).

The only other local double-winner was Fontainebleau’s Jessica Kopcso. She took the 100 breaststroke and 100 butterfly.

Kopcso (1:07) beat runner-up St. Joseph’s Madi Landi (1:10). She swam the butterfly in 57.72 and won over St. Joseph’s Gisele Caldero (58.60).

The Lady Panthers also swept the relays. NHS’ 200-freestyle relay squad consisting of Maria Reyes, Taylor Tadlock, Mary Jabbia and Katie Bergerud finished in 1:44. Mandeville (1:46), who was second, had Alexander, Rachel Cole, Sara Smithers and Emily Campbell.

NHS’ 400-relay team won by more than eight seconds over St. Joseph’s (3:50). Bergerud, Annie Holladay, Winn and Donovan participated.

The 200 medley relay team of Winn, Jabbia, Holladay and Donovan finished in 1:54.32, edging out St. Joseph’s (1:54.66).

The other non-local finisher was Baton Rouge’s Joanne Chein, who won the 50 free in 24.60 seconds and she took the 100-yard backstroke in 59.13 seconds.

Other local girls’ top 16 finishers:

50 free: 2. Alexander, MHS, 24.84; 3. Reyes, NHS, 25.84; 5. Campbell, MHS, 26.02; 7. Bankston, SSA, 26.54; 13. Lodato, FHS, 27.07.

100 free: 5. Reyes, NHS, 57.36; 10. Winkler, SSA, 58.18; 11. Bankston, SSA, 58.35; 12. Campbell, MHS, 58.44; 14. Morton, FHS, 1:00.

200 free: 4. Bergerud, NHS, 1:59; 9. LaBorde, SSA, 2:04; 12. Tucker, FHS, 2:06; 13. Federick, SHS, 2:07.

500 free: 4. Bergerud, NHS, 5:21; 5. LaBorde, SSA, 5:29; 7. Federick, SHS, 5:37; 8. Tucker, FHS, 5:37; 9 Soileau, SSA, 5:39; 12. Levy, NHS, 5:43; 15. Limbaugh, MHS, 5:53; 16. Matthews, FHS, 5:55.

100 back: 5. Jabbia, NHS, 1:07; 6. Cole, MHS, 1:07; 9. Metoyer, NHS, 1:06; 12. Morton, FHS, 1:07; 14. Petersen, MHS, 1:07.

100 breast: 4. Jabbia, NHS, 1:14; 11. Delia, MHS, 1:18; 12. Barousse, SSA; 13. Trumbach, NHS, 1:19; 15. Emmie Salles, SSA, 1:19.

100 fly: 4. Holladay, NHS, 59.73; 6. Newcomb, SHS, 1:03; 10. Soileau, SSA, 1:04; 11. Cole, MHS, 1:04.

200 IM: 4. Holladay, NHS, 2:17; 9. Newcomb, SHS, 2:23; 12. Dickson, SSA, 2:28; 14. Petersen, MHS, 2:32.

200 freestyle relay: 4. SSA, 1:47; 7. FHS, 1:52.

400 freestyle relay: 5. SSA, 3:57; 7. FHS, 4:03; 10. MHS, 4:08.

200 medley relay: 3. MHS, 1:56; 4. FHS, 1:58; 11. SSA, 2:08.