By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
CIF Southern Section Division 2
The CIF Southern Section Division 2 meet wrapped up on Friday, and the El Segundo girls team and the Cerritos boys team walked home with the overall team titles.
Girls’ Recap
Top 3 Teams
El Segundo — 202 La Canada — 192 Millikan — 155The El Segundo girls team won two individual events and two relays to earn the overall title by just 10 points over La Canada with the whole meet coming down to the last relay and three hundredths of a second.
The first event winner for either team came in the girls 200 freestyle when La Canada senior Meredith O’Grady swam 1:47.79 to earn the win by half-a-second over El Segundo senior, and future UCLA teammate Sora Koike‘s 1:48.22.
This swim was a massive personal best for O’Grady, taking a second off the 1:48.63 mark she set at this meet last year. Koike added a bit from her best of 1:47.83, which she swam in February.
O’Grady went on to also swim the top time in the 100 freestyle, touching in 50.27 to just miss her lifetime best 50.20 from April.
In the 200 IM, El Segundo bounced back with a win from sophomore Eryn Arnold. The 16-year-old swam 1:59.77 in the 200 IM, dropping under 2:00 for the first time in her career and taking a second off her previous best of 2:00.56, which she swam at Winter Juniors in December.
Arnold also won the 100 fly, swimming 53.25 to come in a full second ahead of 2nd place finisher Bianca Nwaizu‘s 54.35. This was another new personal best for Arnold, who came in with a best of 53.82 from Winter Juniors.
El Segundo also won the girls’ 200 freestyle relay with the team of Sora Koike (22.86), Eryn Arnold (23.19), Ava Bao (24.41), and Paige Hale (25.25) swimming 1:35.71 to touch two seconds ahead of the La Canada ‘A’ team.
Going into the final event, the El Segundo girls team was just four points ahead of La Canada, so the whole meet came down to which team took home the trophy in the 400 freestyle relay.
The future UCLA teammates in O’Grady and Koike led off for La Canada and El Segundo respectively. O’Grady swam a personal best 49.92, dipping under 50 seconds for the first time to put La Canada in the lead. Koike touched in 50.30, which exactly tied her lifetime best time from November. This put the El Segundo girls just four tenths back.
On the 2nd leg, Arnold swam for El Segundo, splitting a monster 50.32 to pull the team four seconds ahead of La Canada, who had Natalee Yun split 54.76.
Ava Bao split 53.41 on the 3rd leg for El Segundo while Lilli Perner was 52.88 for La Canada, starting to chip away at the other team’s lead.
The anchor legs saw Paige Hale swim for El Segundo, splitting 54.81 to just barely hold off La Canada senior Mia Bugarin, who swam 51.31. This win gave El Segundo the overall meet title.
Other Event Winners
200 Medley Relay: 1:49.25 — Millikan (Karina Ruiz (28.82), Siena Ramirez (29.05), Lake Fisher (27.30), Mckenna Rosenberg (24.08)) 50 Free: Kaylee Richmond (Murrieta Valley) — 23.28 500 Free: Ava Otteson (Palm Desert) — 4:52.02 100 Back: Megan Wang (Newbury Park) — 52.86 100 Breast: Bianca Nwaizu (Calvary Chapel-Santa Ana) — 59.44Boys Recap
Top 5 Teams
Cerritos — 198 Foothill — 149 Buena — 143 Flintridge Prep — 128 Poly-Riverside — 111The boys did not have as close of a meet as the girls did, with Cerritos winning the overall title with 198 points, almost 50 more than the 2nd place Foothill team’s 149.
The Cerritos boys team won three events during the meet, two relays and one individual. They started the day with a win in the 200 medley relay. Their team of Roy Kim (23.43), Anthony Dornoff (25.09), Andrew Vet (22.82), Andres Garay (22.04) swam 1:33.38 for the top time by almost two seconds over Redondo Union’s 1:35.21 in 2nd.
They also won the last relay of the meet, swimming 3:09.10 in the 400 freestyle relay, touching more than a second ahead of Foothill’s 3:10.23 in 2nd. The Cerritos team consisted of Matthew Ho (50.16), Andrew Vet (46.23), Roy Kim (47.27), and Anthony Dornoff (45.44).
Finally, the team took 1st and 2nd in the boys’ 200 IM final. Junior Anthony Dornoff swam the winning time of 1:46.24, which was a full second drop off his previous lifetime best of 1:47.35 from November. He is committed to Michigan for 2027.
Senior Andrew Vet finished 2nd in 1:49.55, coming in under 1:50 for the first time in his career. He dropped more than a second from his previous best of 1:50.94, which he swam at this meet last season. Vet is headed to UC San Diego in the fall.
There was also one swimmer who won two individual events. Jack Rodenkirch, a junior from Peninsula, swam the top times in the 50 free and 100 free. In the 50, he stopped the clock in 20.23, a new lifetime best time from the 20.38 he swam in April.
In the 100, Rodenkirch swam 44.50, which was a two tenth drop from his pre-meet best of 44.71, which he swam in April at the League Championships. He was slightly faster in prelims, touching in 44.33 to earn the top seed in finals.
Other Event Winners
200 Free: Dashiell DeAnda (Poly-Riverside) — 1:37.85 100 Fly: Isaac Chang (Palos Verdes) — 48.67 500 Free: Jay Hickman (Villa Park) — 4:24.53 200 Free Relay: Foothill (Blake Chen (21.96), Gavin Fisher (21.77), Jared Wang (21.82), Ezra Nelson (20.39)) –1:25.94 100 Back: Kyle Tsuei (Rowland) — 47.13 100 Breast: Henry Yang (Flintridge Prep) — 54.72Read the full story on SwimSwam: El Segundo Girls and Cerritos Boys Earn CIF Division 2 Team Titles
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