The Cerritos College women’s swimming team won a
pair of South Coast Conference meets on Friday, as
they defeated both Pasadena City College (85-42) and
Los Angeles Trade-Tech College (115-6), which runs
their record to 4-3 on the season. The Falcons will
now enter the Pasadena Invitational, which will take
place next Friday and Saturday.
Over the
course of the meet, Cerritos won nine of the events,
with freshman
Stephanie
Rosero (Downey HS) capturing three
first place finishes, while freshman
Denise Vega
(Montebello HS) won two events and came in
second place in another. For Rosero, she broke her
own school record in the 50-yard backstroke with a
time of 29.13, after setting the new mark of 29.31
earlier in the season. Her second win came in the
100-yard backstroke, when she turned in a time of
1:06.56, while the top three finishers in the
500-yard freestyle were all Falcons. After Rosero’s
time of 5:37.70 easily won the race, she was
followed by freshman
Brittany
Paulsen (Gahr HS) in a time of
6:30.39 and sophomore
Janine
Boutte (Downey HS) with a time of
6:41.68.
Vega, who
won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 1:02.74,
was followed by freshman
Angela Chiaromonte (Schurr HS) in
1:04.44, while her clocking of 2:17.80 was good
enough for first place in the 200-yard freestyle.
Vega also turned in a second place finish in the
200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:39.62,
while freshman Deyra Sanchez (Bell Gardens
HS) was a distant third.
Sophomore
Salina Mesa
(Montebello HS) finished two minutes ahead of
Paulsen in the 1650-yard freestyle, with a time of
20:42.81 to win the race, while she also finished in
second place in the 50-yard butterfly (28.88) and
100-yard butterfly (2:39.62). Freshman diver
Hilary Baca was the lone competitor in the
1-meter diving competition for a first place finish,
while two relay teams won races. In the 200-yard
medley relay, the quartet of Rosero, Chiaromonte,
Mesa and Llamas turned in a time of 2:03.81 to win
the race, while Boutte, Vega, freshman
Lisa
Valdez (El Rancho HS) and sophomore
Daisy Carrillo (Montebello HS) swam
alone in the 400-yard freestyle relay and finished
with a time of 4:24.95.
Several other swimmers turned in
second place performances, including Paulsen in the
50-yard breaststroke (40.23), Llamas in the 50-yard
freestyle (28.70) and Chiaromonte in the 100-yard
breaststroke with a time of 1:24.75.
