After the 3A state swimming meet ended, an opposing coach walked up to Park City head coach Mike Werner and said what was on his mind.

“You pulled off the unexpected again,” the coach told Werner.

The Park City Miners swim team took second overall in the girls’ championship races and the boys finished third overall in last weekend’s meet held at BYU.

Coming off a state championship in 2010, Werner and Park City had high expectations coming into the season and sporting a relatively young team, Werner and his swimmers sent shockwaves through the water as a girl’s team that most expected to finish somewhere in the middle of the top 10, finished second behind Judge Memorial.

“The kids were amazing,” Werner said. “They just came to swim. I was really impressed with the way we swam.”

The trio of Marissa Bell, Hailey Shand and Ali Murphy earned numerous medals as each finished in the top three in six events.

Bell finished second in the 200-individual medley and the 500-freestyle. Shand took second in the 100-backstroke and third in 200-freestyle. Murphy took second in the 100-butterfly.

The girls also took third in 200-medley relay and the 400-freestyle relay.

They finished second overall in the state with just one entry in the 50-freestyle and no entries in the 100-freestyle.

“That gives me a challenge for next year,” Werner said. “I knew the girls were going to swim well. I think we shocked everyone else.”

The boys’ team took third behind first-place Wasatch and second-place Judge Memorial. The Miners won five of the eight individual events in the boys’ races.

Junior star Dusty Ragland took first in both the 50 and 100-freestyle, while Hayden Peterson took first in the 100-backstroke. Jensen Howard finished first in the 500-freestyle and Zach Carfi finished first in the 100-breastroke.

Ragland was named the 3A Most Valuable Swimmer.

“The boys were on,” Werner said. “No complaining”

As he now faces the off-season, Park City’s head coach is already eagerly looking forward to next year. The Miners will lose only two seniors on the boy’s side of things and overall, Werner said things are only going to get better for Park City.

“We’re going to be stacked,” he said.