The Cerritos
College women's swimming team is tuning up for
their toughest competition of the season and are
responding by breaking records. The Falcons, who
placed second in the 17-team Pasadena
Invitational over the weekend by compiling 586.5
team points, broke four records along the way
and were .01 second away from tying another.
Over the course of the invitational, both
freshmen
Jenel
Lopez (La Serna HS) and
Natalie Peng (Cerritos HS)
each broke two school records and won two
events.
Lopez broke
her own record in the 200-yard freestyle by
posting a time of 1:56.77 and finished second in
the race. The old record of 1:57.96 was set six
weeks earlier. In the 1650-yard freestyle, Lopez
won the race with a time of 18:36.75, which
obliterated the record of 19:24.55, which was
set by teammate
Stephanie Rosero (Downey HS)
last year. Freshman
Brittni Kimura (Los Altos HS)
also beat the time set by Rosero, and placed
fifth in the race in a time of 19:22.65. Added
to her two records, Lopez also won the 50-yard
freestyle with a time of 25.13, while teammate
Melinda Guevara (Cerritos HS)
and
Hannah
Llamas (Gahr HS) tied for
13th place at 27.24.
For Peng, she
broke one of her own records, as well as one set
by Lopez. In the 50-yard butterfly, she posted a
time of 26.40 to win the race and eclipsed her
old mark of 26.60. Peng placed second in the
100-yard freestyle with a time of 53.72, but it
broke the old record of 53.89 that Lopez set
earlier in the year, while Lopez placed fifth in
the race in a time of 56.53. Peng came close to
tying a third record, but her winning time of
58.12 was .01 second off her record of 58.11.
Freshman
Gina Kim (Sunny
Hills HS) turned in a trio of third place
finishes over the weekend, doing so in the
50-yard backstroke (29.39), 100-yard backstroke
(1:04.26) and 200-yard backstroke (2:28.94). In
addition, Kim also swam in the 100-yard IM and
200-yard IM. Peng finished in 8th in the
100-yard IM (1:04.43) and Kim in ninth
(1:04.55), while Peng posted a time of 2:19.58
for sixth in the 200 IM, while Kim placed
seventh in 2:22.51.
Others who
swam exceptionally well in the invitational
included freshman
Bianca
Garcia (Bravo HS), who
placed sixth in the 50-yard breaststroke
(35.23), sixth in the 200-yard breaststroke
(3:00.11) and 12th in the 100-yard breaststroke
(1:18.89), while sophomore
Vivian Aguirre (Downey HS)
placed eighth in the 50-yard butterfly (30.32),
18th in the 100-yard butterfly (1:10.46) and
freshman
Karen
Aguirre (Downey HS), who
finished 10th in the 100-yard backstroke
(1:08.22), 12th in the 50-yard butterfly (30.60)
and 13th in the 100-yard butterfly (1:07.25).
|
NAME |
EVENT |
TIME |
PLACE |
| Jenel
Lopez |
50-Yard Freestyle |
25.13 |
1st Place |
| Melinda Guevara |
50-Yard
Freestyle |
27.24 |
Tied 13th
Place |
| Hannah
Llamas |
50-Yard Freestyle |
27.24 |
Tied 13th Place |
| Natalie Peng |
100-Yard
Freestyle |
53.72 |
2nd Place |
| Jenel
Lopez |
100-Yard Freestyle |
56.53 |
5th Place |
| Hannah Llamas |
100-Yard
Freestyle |
59.73 |
16th Place |
| Bianca
Garcia |
100-Yard Freestyle |
1:00.38 |
19th Place |
| Melinda Guevara |
100-Yard
Freestyle |
1:00.70 |
20th Place |
| Jenel
Lopez |
200-Yard Freestyle
|
1:56.77 |
2nd Place |
| Hannah Llamas |
200-Yard
Freestyle |
2:08.16 |
13th Place |
| Jenel
Lopez |
500-Yard Freestyle |
5:26.24 |
3rd Place |
| Brittni Kimura |
500-Yard
Freestyle |
5:40.93 |
10th Place |
| Jenel
Lopez |
1650-Yard Freestyle |
18:36.75 |
1st Place |
| Brittni Kimura |
1650-Yard
Freestyle |
19:22.65 |
14th Place |
| Denise
Vega |
1650-Yard Freestyle |
20:35.92 |
13th Place |
| Hannah Llamas |
1650-Yard
Freestyle |
20:43.47 |
16th Place |
| Natalie
Peng |
50-Yard Butterfly |
26.40 |
1st Place |
| Vivian Aguirre |
50-Yard
Butterfly |
30.32 |
8th Place |
| Karen
Aguirre |
50-Yard Butterfly |
30.60 |
12th Place |
| Andy Garcia |
50-Yard
Butterfly |
30.65 |
15th Place |
| Natalie
Peng |
100-yard Butterfly |
58.12 |
1st Place |
| Karen Aguirre |
100-Yard
Butterfly |
1:07.25 |
13th Place |
| Andy
Garcia |
100-Yard Butterfly |
1:08.63 |
15th Place |
| Vivian Aguirre |
100-yard
Butterfly |
1:10.46 |
18th Place |
| Gina
Kim |
50-Yard Backstroke |
29.39 |
3rd Place |
| Melinda Guevara |
50-Yard
Backstroke |
34.37 |
20th Place |
| Gina
Kim |
100-Yard Backstroke |
1:04.26 |
3rd Place |
| Karen Aguirre |
100-Yard
Backstroke |
1:08.22 |
10th Place |
| Brittni
Kimura |
100-Yard Backstroke |
1:12.51 |
15th Place |
| Nicole Tuning |
100-Yard
Backstroke |
1:21.80 |
20th Place |
| Gina
Kim |
200-Yard Backstroke |
2:28.94 |
3rd Place |
| Bianca Garcia |
50-Yard
Breaststroke |
35.23 |
6th Place |
| Sharon
Pedregon |
50-Yard Breaststroke |
37.34 |
18th Place |
| Bianca Garcia
|
100-Yard
Breaststroke |
1:18.89 |
12th Place |
| Sharon
Pedregon |
100-yard Breaststroke |
1:19.68 |
14th Place |
| Sharon Pedregon |
200-Yard
Breaststroke |
2:49.60 |
4th Place |
| Bianca
Garcia |
200-yard Breaststroke |
3:00.11 |
6th Place |
| Angela Chiaromonte |
200-Yard
Breaststroke |
3:07.60 |
7th Place |
| Ashley
Arambula |
200-Yard Breaststroke |
3:09.80 |
8th Place |
| Natalie Peng |
100-Yard
IM |
1:04.43 |
8th Place |
| Gina
Kim |
100-Yard IM |
1:04.55 |
9th Place |
| Natalie Peng |
200-Yard
IM |
2:19.58 |
6th Place |
| Gina
Kim |
200-Yard IM |
2:21.51 |
7th Place |
| Brittni Kimura |
200-Yard
IM |
2:33.91 |
17th Place |
| Denise
Vega |
200-Yard IM |
2:37.41 |
19th Place |
| Vivian Aguirre |
200-Yard
IM |
2:37.66 |
20th Place |
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