The Moore League dual against Long Beach Poly on March 20 told you everything you needed to know about Wilson's girls this season. The Bruins won the meet, 86 to 84, decided on the final relay.

The score has history. The prior year, Poly won the same dual by the same two points. This time Wilson flipped it.

The562's local coverage of the meet called out the way Wilson got there: the Bruins "placed 25 different athletes or relays in scoring positions" — every scoring spot, top to bottom, filled with a Wilson cap. That's the signature of a particular kind of program. The sixth-place point. The relay leg that holds. A senior class deep enough to put a Bruin in every lane that scores.

The seniors

The562's local preview, published on March 3, named Matilda Davison-Lakey, Reece Haga, and Kate Tunnicliff as Wilson's headline seniors. They delivered.

Tunnicliff was the IM-and-breaststroke anchor at the Moore League Finals prelims-and-finals on April 29 and May 1: 2:18.41 in the 200 IM, 1:11.23 in the 100 breast — the only Wilson swimmer under 1:12 in the breast and the only one under 2:20 in the IM. Davison-Lakey swam the 100 fly in 1:01.37 and the 50 free in 25.56. Haga, the pure sprinter, went 25.43 in the 50 / 55.51 in the 100.

Two more seniors carried major events. Eden Dunn went 1:01.14 in the 100 back, the team-leading back time this season. Taylor Williams went 1:00.62 in the 100 fly and 25.25 in the 50 — the only Wilson swimmer under 1:01 in the fly.

Five seniors. Every championship stroke covered.

The senior class is fifteen names deep on the roster, and that's the part that wins 86–84. Hadley Elliott in the IM, Francesca Hattan in the breast, Teagan Shandrew-Pearsall in the back, Luna Pires, Grace Walker, Alexis Casault, Lily den Hartog. The swimmers who score the sixth-place point in races they don't win. There's a reason Wilson placed 25 in scoring positions against Poly.

The kids behind them

Coach Kristin Barth-Kredell, who returned to Wilson as head coach in 2024 (and shares a last name with the Klaus Barth Invitational, where the team finished second in April), told The562 last spring that she taught Abby Billish how to swim when Billish was little.

Now Billish is a sophomore. 1:53.33 in the 200 free. 5:01.83 in the 500 free. Both at the CIF Southern Section Division 1 Championship in late April. Both team-leading times.

The other emerging name: Bella Salley-Najjarian, sophomore sprinter. 24.72 in the 50 free, 53.81 in the 100 free, also at the Division 1 Championship. Both team-leading times. As a sophomore.

Two freshmen the preview flagged in March: Emmylou Kennedy and Kylie Kennedy. On April 17, in the dual against Millikan, Emmylou and Billish swam a 500 free that finished 0.46 seconds apart — 5:17.41 to 5:17.87. A photo-finish in the longest event in the pool, between a freshman and a sophomore wearing the same cap.

There's more behind them. Elizabeth Roel (sophomore) on 100 back (1:06.16) and 100 free (56.82). Francesca Garcia (junior) 100 fly (1:03.16). Nancy Knight (sophomore) 58.61 in the 100 free.

The family in the lane lines

Look down the roster and the same last names show up twice.

Bella Salley-Najjarian has a freshman sister, Layla, in the lanes beside her — 28.31 50 free at Moore League Finals. Whitney Osborn swims alongside her sister Allison (sophomore, 1:18.46 100 breast). The Posards — Anna and Annabel — are both juniors. The Kennedys — Emmylou and Kylie — both freshmen.

This is the part of a high school program that doesn't show up in any ranking. The sisters. The coach who watched the sophomore in the 500 free learn streamline kicks as a kindergartener. The senior captains shouting splits while their younger teammates' little sisters wait their turn.

The season Wilson swam

The regular-season story arrived in pieces:

  • March 20, at Long Beach Poly: Wilson 86, Poly 84. Decided on the final relay.
  • April 13, Klaus Barth Invitational: Wilson 2nd (105), Millikan 1st (110), Poly 3rd (91).
  • April 17, vs Millikan: Wilson 117.5, Millikan 52.5. Sweep. Tunnicliff won three events; Billish, Haga, and Williams each had doubles.
  • April 29 + May 1, Moore League Finals: prelims, then finals. The senior times above are from this meet.
  • April 29 prelims → May 9 finals, CIF Southern Section Division 1: Salley-Najjarian's 24.72 / 53.81 and Billish's 1:53.33 / 5:01.83 came here.

Wilson has won the Moore League title every year since 2022. The562 framed the 2026 season as the chase for the five-peat. We don't yet have the 2026 Moore League team scores in our data — we have times, not point totals — so we can't tell you in this piece whether the streak held. What we can tell you is what these swimmers put on the clock when it mattered.

What's left in the water

Behind the seniors stands a sophomore freestyle pair already swimming Division 1 times and a freshman class within half a second of the sophomore in front of them. Walk past the Wilson team tent next spring and you'll see Salley-Najjarian back, faster. Billish back, faster. Kennedy back, faster.

But you won't see the fifteen who finished.

So this one is for them.