2009 marks the twenty sixth Anniversary for the Southwest Classic which remains the largest invitational of its kind in the United States. The meet has grown so large the preliminaries were held at seven locations for the nineteenth year. Approximately 112 schools entered over 2600 swimmers and 170 divers in this yearÕs Classic. Prelims were held sat and sun morning at seven locations and the 16 fastest swimmers in each event swam in the finals sat and sun night at Keating Natatorium. This was a difficult event for WHS because they were competing with Div I schools as well as Div II schools. In spite of this, The boys 200 medley relay placed first with a new WHS record!!!! After the final events on Sun, WHS Girls were in 12th place and the Boys were in 4th place. Wow!!! Sun results follow:
| Name | Event | Mason | Qualification | Finals | ||
| time | Place | Time | place | |||
| Bryn Dunbar | 100 Free | 55.71 | 4th | 12th | 55.83 | 16th |
| Celia Oberholzer | 200 Back | 02:12.94 | 4th | 11th | 02:11.72 | 11th |
| Mariah Akinbi | 100 Breast | 01:11.95 | 7th | 18th | ||
| Oberholzer, Tsivitse, Fischer, Dunbar | 400 Free Relay | 03:51.31 | 5th | 12th | 03:51.46 | 15th |
| Oberholzer, Akinbi, Tsivitse, Dunbar | 200 Medley Relay | 01:55.67 | 4th | 7th | 01:53.14 | 7th |
| Michael Murphy | 100 Free | 49.25 | 4th | 10th | 47.53 | 9th |
| AJ Burt | 100 Breast | 01:03.6 | 3rd | 18th | ||
| Jonathan Proffitt | 100 Breast | 01:00.93 | 2nd | 4th | 01:00.44 | 4th |
| Patrick Lippert | 50 Fly | 25.97 | 1st | 5th | 25.81 | 7th |
| Michael Murphy | 200 Fly | 02:00.2 | 1st | 7th | 01:58.8 | 5th |
| Zach Fischer | 200 Back | 02:01.73 | 2nd | 13th | 02:02.07 | 15th |
| Fischer, Proffitt, Murphy, Dunbar | 200 Medley Relay | 01:39.51 | 1st | 1st | 01:36.68 | 1st |
| Fischer, Dunbar, Proffitt, Murphy | 400 Free Relay | 03:18.47 | 2nd | 2nd | 03:13.1 | 2nd |