Riding the
heels of the school's first water polo
championship from earlier in the year, the
Cerritos College women's swimming team
captured their first South Coast Conference
swimming championship on Saturday at Chaffey
College. The Falcons, who went 7-0 in
conference meets, compiled 666 team points
and narrowly beat Mt. San Antonio College,
who finished in second place with 655
points. Cerritos will be represented by a
large contingent at the state championships,
which will take place this Thursday through
Saturday at Long Beach City College. The top
16 times in the state each event advance to
the state championships.
Freshman
Jenel Lopez (La Serna HS)
won three events, while breaking two school
records along the way. In the 50-yard
freestyle, Lopez broke her record of 24.98
by swimming a time of 24.70. Freshmen
Melinda Guevara (Cerritos
HS) and
Bianca Garcia (Bravo HS)
finished in seventh and eighth places with
times of 26.81 and 27.81, respectively.
Lopez regained the school record in the
100-yard freestyle with a time of 53.59 to
win the event. After teammate
Natalie Peng (Cerritos HS)
broke Lopez's record earlier in the year
with a time of 53.72, Lopez came back in the
finals to post a time of 53.59 to take back
the record. Sophomore
Hannah Llamas (Gahr HS)
finished seventh at 57.36, while Guevara
placed eighth with a time of 1:00.22.
The third
event won by Lopez was the 200-yard
freestyle, as she turned in a time of
1:57.16. Llamas finished in eighth with a
time of 2:10.85. As for Peng, she won two
events and placed second in another. In the
50-yard butterfly, Peng finished in a time
of 26.77 to easily beat the competition,
while freshman
Andrea Garcia (Gahr HS)
placed fifth in 29.13. Peng also won the
100-yard butterfly by registering a time of
58.35, which was four seconds faster than
the rest of the field. Freshman
Angie Silva (Pioneer HS)
was an eighth place finisher with a time of
1:10.39. Looking to be a three-time
champion, Peng was defeated by Mt. San
Antonio's Angela Kanagowski in the 200-yard
IM, by turning in a time of 2:12.15 which
beat Peng's time of 2:16.34. Sophomore
Denise Vega (Montebello HS)
was a sixth place finisher after turning in
a time of 2:35.65.
In the
distance freestyle races, freshman
Brittni Kimura (Los Altos
HS) won the 1650-yard race and came in
third place in the 500-yard race. Her time
of 19:21.31 in the 1650-yard freestyle beat
the second place finisher by 16 seconds,
with Vega coming in 11th place. In the
500-yard freestyle, Kimura finished in a
time of 5:37.50 to come in third place,
while Llamas came in 11th place. Freshman
Gina
Kim (Sunny Hills HS)
turned in a trio of third place
performances, posting a time of 29.13 in the
50-yard backstroke and 1:02.73 in the
100-yard backstroke. She also placed third
in the 100-yard IM with a time of 1:04.22.
Freshman teammate
Karen Aguirre (Downey HS)
finished in fifth in both the 50-yard
backstroke (31.04) and 100-yard backstroke
(1:06.27), while Bianca Garcia was third in
the 50-yard breaststroke (33.73) and
100-yard breaststroke (1:14.07). Freshman
Sharon Pedregon came in
seventh in the 100-yard breaststroke in
1:17.33
|
NAME |
EVENT |
TIME |
PLACE |
| Jenel
Lopez |
50-Yard Freestyle |
24.70 |
1st Place |
| Melinda Guevara |
50-Yard
Freestyle |
26.81 |
7th Place |
| Bianca
Garcia |
50-Yard Freestyle |
27.81 |
8th Place |
| Andrea Garcia |
50-Yard
Freestyle |
27.58 |
10th Place |
| Jenel
Lopez |
100-Yard Freestyle |
53.59 |
1st Place |
| Hannah Llamas |
100-Yard
Freestyle |
57.36 |
7th Place |
| Melinda
Guevara |
100-Yard Freestyle |
1:00.22 |
8th Place |
| Angie Silva |
100-Yard
Freestyle |
1:01.32 |
10th Place |
| Jenel
Lopez |
200-Yard Freestyle
|
1:57.16 |
1st Place |
| Hannah Llamas |
200-Yard
Freestyle |
2:10.85 |
8th Place |
| Brittni
Kimura |
200-Yard Freestyle |
2:12.06 |
10th Place |
| Brittni Kimura |
500-Yard
Freestyle |
5:37.50 |
3rd Place |
| Brittni
Kimura |
1650-Yard Freestyle |
19:21.31 |
1st Place |
| Natalie Peng |
50-Yard
Butterfly |
26.77 |
1st Place |
| Andrea
Garcia |
50-Yard Butterfly |
29.13 |
5th Place |
| Karen Aguirre |
50-Yard
Butterfly |
29.76 |
9th Place |
| Natalie
Peng |
100-Yard Butterfly |
58.35 |
1st Place |
| Angie Silva |
100-Yard
Butterfly |
1:10.39 |
8th Place |
| Gina
Kim |
50-Yard Backstroke |
29.13 |
3rd Place |
| Karen Aguirre |
50-Yard
Backstroke |
31.04 |
5th Place |
| Gina
Kim |
100-Yard Backstroke |
1:02.73 |
3rd Place |
| Karen Aguirre |
100-Yard
Backstroke |
1:06.27 |
5th Place |
| Bianca
Garcia |
50-Yard Breaststroke |
33.73 |
3rd Place |
| Bianca Garcia |
100-Yard
Breaststroke |
1:14.07 |
3rd Place |
| Sharon
Pedregon |
100-Yard Breaststroke |
1:17.33 |
7th Place |
| Gina Kim |
100-Yard
IM |
1:04.22 |
3rd Place |
| Natalie
Peng |
200-Yard IM |
2:16.34 |
2nd Place |
| Denise Vega |
200-Yard
IM |
2:33.17 |
6th Place |
|
Brittany Paulsen |
200-Yard IM |
2:40.93 |
9th Place |
| Miriam Caneng |
200-Yard
IM |
2:49.76 |
10th Place |
|
