Santa Margarita 1:29.61 Girl Sets National HS Record with 200 Free Flags

LOYOLA INVITATION @ USC

• Tuesday, March 28, 2023
• Uytengsu Aquatics Middle, Los Angeles, CA
• SCY (25 yards)
• Outcomes on MeetMobile

Loyola Excessive Faculty hosted a small occasion at USC’s Uytengsu Aquatic Middle, which included Santa Margarita, Harvard-Westlake, Chaminade, Marlborough, and Oakwood HS. Though it was a comparatively small get-together, it was about as action-packed as a non-championship highschool reunion will be.

Santa Margarita, now one of many premier highschool packages within the nation, set a Nationwide Excessive Faculty Document on the meet, however that was simply the tip of the iceberg.

The Nationwide HS Document got here within the women’ 200 freestyle relay, the place the Santa Margarita workforce teamed up for a scorching 1:29.61 swim and the primary highschool women to interrupt them in 1:30 ran the 200 freestyle relay. Teia Salvino (22.77), Asia Kozan (22.57), Gracyn Aquino (22.46) and Teagan O’Dell Combining (21.81) received the job completed, smashing Carmel Excessive’s Nationwide Excessive Faculty Document of 1:30.23, which they set final month.

Here is a fast comparability between Santa Margarita’s relay tonight and Carmel’s Nationwide HS Document efficiency final month:

Kozan, a Santa Margarita veteran and UCSD fellow, was additionally on hearth individually. Kozan, who gained the 200 in women with a time of 1:45.82, dominated the competitors. Extra importantly, she was simply 0.02 seconds behind her private document of 1:45.80 swimming in a Regionals earlier within the month.

Kozan additionally competed within the Santa Margarita 200 freestyle relay and gained with a time of three:16.84. He despatched the workforce away in 49.47. Aquino completed second in 49.87, Salvin clocked 49.60 within the third foot, and O’Dell got here residence roaring with a terrific 47.90 anchor foot. Santa Margarita, particularly, additionally holds the Nationwide HS Document within the women’ 400 freestyle relay, breaking the document with 3:14.80 final 12 months. Salvino and O’Dell have been additionally in that transition, Kozan’s older sister Justina Kozan was additionally a member.

O’Dell, a sophomore at Santa Margarita, was one other prime performer on the assembly. He earned 200 IMs by ten seconds to the ladies and rumbled into an incredible 1:57.32 highschool rendezvous swim. O’Dell got here out so quick that he immediately cut up 24.57 and 28.82 within the again to 53.39 within the opening 100. He then had a really stable 34.89 chest separation and got here residence at 1:57.32.

The breaststroke race was a preview of what was to return. O’Dell would go on to present the ladies 100 breasts with an enormous private document of 59.73. It was a extremely large swim for the 16-year-old and he or she flew her earlier private document 1:01.01, which she swam in November 2021.

Salvino, a young person, and Aquino, a sophomore, additionally gained 1-2 out of fifty free within the meet women. Salvino gained the race with 22.90, 0.29 seconds forward of Aquino (23.19). Salvino went on to win 100 free out of fifty in 52.19, whereas Aquino completed third with 52.60.

Santa Margarita sophomore Chloe Stinson An enormous swim within the women’ 100 fly, she gained the race convincingly with 55.36. Stinson was simply behind the most effective time of his life at 55.30, when he swam on the CIF-SS Division I Championship final Might.

One other Santa Margarita swimmer, maggie mguire, a senior, gained a double occasion in a single day. McGuire gained the ladies’ 500 first with 4:55.41, the primary time underneath 5:00 this highschool season. Then at 56.70 the ladies gained 100 and took first place by about two seconds.

Males meet, Loyola senior Rex Maurer some nice instances additionally threw. These swims included a brand new lifetime better of 1:45.49 at 200 IM, the place Maurer swam to win the race by over three seconds. His earlier document was 1:45.78, which he swam in January of this 12 months. Maurer was excellent within the homecoming, dividing 31.05 in chest and 25.33 in freestyle by 56.38 within the second 100 of the race. It was additionally quick, immediately splitting 23.00 after which recording a really quick 26.11 cut up again.

Maurer would proceed from 200 IMs to win 500 free for males at 4:29.31.

The Loyola boys gained the 400 freestyle relay, thanks largely to a 44.15 lead from Maurer. zachary larrick He was second with 45.70. ray liu He was third at 45.30 and James Cahill Docked at 45.95. They clocked 3:01.10 to win the race.

Cahill, a Loyola veteran, additionally gained 100 within the males’s 48.60.

Santa Margarita teenager Daniel Verdolaga He gained 100 golf equipment within the males’s at 47.75 and set a brand new private document on the occasion. His earlier excessive was 47.94, which he swam in a Regionals earlier within the month. He swam an amazing race, he got here out at 22.58 and got here residence at 25.17.

One other Santa Margarita teenager, Hunter Cehelnikgrew to become the winner of the double occasion that day. Cehelnik gained the lads’s 200 for the primary time in 1:38.65, taking 0.21 seconds of his greatest efficiency within the occasion. The earlier greatest was decided on the Speedo Winter Juniors West match final December.

Cehelnik then gained 100 free in 44.68, setting a brand new private document for the 17-year-old. The earlier better of 44.79 was additionally decided on the Regional assembly earlier within the month.

Verdolaga and Cehelnik helped the Santa Margarita boys obtain victory in all 200 free passes. Cehelnik took the lead in 20.97, adopted by Allen Cai in 20.71, Verdolaga in 20.67 and Ramon Jiang in 20.41. Ultimately, they clocked 1:22.76 to assert the win.

Santa Margarita teenager Nathan Wu At 55.80 males gained 100 breasts. Wu set his private document at 55.32 on the Regional assembly earlier within the month.

OTHER EVENT WINNERS

• Ladies 200 medley relay: Santa Margarita (maggie mguire, Victoria Mori, Samantha Cummins, Linda Yu) – 1:47.52
• Males 50 free: Abraham Lee (Loyola) – 20.92