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A year ago, Glacier Peak’s Matthew King was looking at the times of some of the results from the state swimming meet and came to a realization.

“I was like ‘Wait. I can win this thing,” King said. “Maybe I should try that out.”

So the Grizzly sophomore decided to join his high school swim team. A year later, King walked away with a pair of state titles at the 4A championships Saturday, Feb. 17, at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.

King took first in the 50-yard freestyle in automatic All-American time of 20.54 seconds and the 100 freestyle in an All-American consi...