I wasn’t there for this meet (I was on the bus to Mission Viejo), but here is what went down! The prelims started off with the 200 Medley Relay. Malin Stone, Adelyn Horciza, Sophia Schwartz and Ella Del Rosario went 1:56.84 (NCS Automatic time is 1:55.07), finishing in 7th place. The B team of Lucy McShane, Lily Briones, Sophia Hwang…
After driving down to Mission Viejo in the rain on Friday, it could not have been a more beautiful day on Saturday as the Dons rolled into the Marguerite Aquatics Center for the 50th Annual Mission Viejo Invitational. The preliminaries started off at 9:15am with the Women’s 200 Free. Olivia Whipple finished 19th place with a season best of 2:10.12,…
The Dons’ second swim meet of the season took place on Tuesday, 3/11. It was a lovely afternoon with an extra hour of sunshine thanks to the time change! Northgate is a very large and very strong swim team, but there were still plenty of great swims by the Dons! To start things off, Sadie Suppiger, Anna Motes, Tess Veronda…
It was a cool afternoon at Heaston Aquatic Center – and then got downright cold once the sun went down! Let’s just say that swim team is VERY MUCH looking forward to the time change this weekend! An extra hour of sun will make all the difference to our swimmers! The meet started off with Acalanes winning three of the…
It was a BEAUTIFUL afternoon on Wednesday – sunny and warm – just perfect weather for a swim meet! The Acalanes Swim Team held their time trials after school. This is the meet where swimmers can swim up to five races to get base times for entries into the competitive meets starting in March. Coach Brett and Coach RJ were…
The Acalanes Swim Team received devastating news today – after a technological glitch resulting from possible internet connectivity issues prevented our qualifying swimmers from being entered into the NCS meet by the deadline, and after two days of strong advocacy by parents, students, and administration, the final decision has been made by NCS Leadership to not include any AHS swimmers…
After the Varsity DAL Finals in the morning, the JV swim teams came together for their final meet of the season! Dons started off strong with a 9th place finish in the 200 Medley Relay for the girls and a 7th place finish for the boys team. In the 200 Free, Avery Tanimura finished 3rd with a season best 2:13.01!…
What a great morning of swimming today! The 200 Girls Relay finished 4th overall with an NCS time of 1:51.76! Ella Del Rosario finished 7th in the 200 Free, while Sophia Schwartz improved her time by nearly four seconds between prelims and finals – finishing 18th. Olivia Whipple was 19th and Brooke Rardin was 20th. Parker Etnyre finished 9th on…
On Thursday afternoon, the Dons Varsity swim team took a bus to Campolindo High School for the Diablo Athletic League Championship Swim Meet. Swimmers from all 13 DAL schools were there to compete in this season-ending meet! Yesterday was the preliminary races, with the top 24 qualifying for the A/B/C finals on Saturday morning. The 200 Medley Relays started off…
What a beautiful day it was at the Las Lomas pool as the Dons faced off with the Knights. Again, our team was just finishing their “Hell Week”, so not many time improvements – the swimmers are tired! They are starting to taper now, in preparation for the DAL Championships late next week. Avery Tanimura won the JV girls…