After winning three titles at the State
Championships, as well as earning Swimmer of the
Meet, Cerritos College freshman swimmer PJ Gabayeron
(Cerritos HS) has now earned
All-American honors in three individual races,
as well as in three relay races. Gabayeron was
named All-American in all three of the races he
won at the state championships - 200-yard IM,
100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard breaststroke.
He also swam a leg of the 400-yard freestyle
relay, 400-yard medley relay and 800-yard
freestyle relay, which earned All-American
honors.
In both the 200-yard IM and 200-yard
breaststroke, Gabayeron posted the second
fastest time in the country, while his time in
the 100-yard breaststroke was the sixth fastest.
For the 200-yard IM, Gabayeron won the state
championship and set a new school record with a
time of 1:52.33, which was just shy of the
national best time of 1:52.20, set by Daniel
Corley of Lincoln (IL) College.
He also won the state title and set a new school
record in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time
of 2:01.96, with Jordan Arencibia of Indian
River (FL) College posting a time of 2:01.18 for
the fastest in the country. It was four swimmers
from Indian River (FL) College that bested Gabayeron
in the 100-yard breaststroke, but his time of
56.59 won the state championship and set a new
school record.
In the 800-yard freestyle, the quartet of
sophomores Berner
Figueroa (Paramount HS),
Matt
Mendoza (Downey HS),
Ethan Klotzer (Downey HS)
and Gabayeron set a new school record with a
time of 7:08.07, which was the 12th fastest in
the country and took 10th place at the state
championships. As for the 400-yard medley relay,
the time of 3:36.68 was the 16th fastest in the
country and was turned in by Gabayeron,
sophomore
Louie Espinoza (Montebello HS),
Figueroa and freshman
Pat
McCarthy (Downey HS). It
was Gabayeron, Klotzer, McCarthy and Figueroa that posted the time of 3:13.76
in the 400-yard freestyle relay, which landed
them in 15th place at the state championships
and was the 16th fastest time in the country.
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