Freshman Stephanie Rosero (Downey HS) is already making a name for herself with the Cerritos College women’s swimming team, as she won the South Coast Conference championship in the 50-yard backstroke on the second day of the conference championships at Pasadena City College. In addition to winning the event, she broke her own school record with a time of 28.37. It is the third time she has broken the record this year and beat her closest competition by three seconds. The record she beat was a time of 29.01 that she set at the Pasadena Invitational two weeks ago. The final day of competition is set for Saturday at Pasadena City College.

    In a pair of relay races, the team finished in third place in both, as the quartet of Rosero, freshman Hannah Llamas (Gahr HS), sophomore Salina Mesa (Montebello HS) and sophomore Daisy Carrillo (Montebello HS) turned in a time of 2:00.16 in the 200-yard medley relay. It broke the old record of 2:00.50, which was established last year by Roxy Cariaga, Ashley Badali, Mesa and Carrillo. As for the 800-yard freestyle relay race, the team of Carrillo, Mesa, freshman Denise Vega (Montebello HS) and Rosero turned in a  time of 8:43.52.

    After the first two days, the Falcons are in third place with 319 team points and trail Long Beach City College, who has 330 points and the front-runner, Chaffey College, who leads with 541 points.

    Cerritos also received a second place finish in the 50-yard butterfly from Mesa, who checked in with a time of 28.38, while Carrillo finished in fourth place in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:30.99.