Pacific Swim Wins 2022 San Diego-Imperial LC Age Group Championships

by Sidney Zacharias 1

August 31st, 2022 Club, News

2022 San Diego-Imperial LC Age Group Champs

  • August 11-14, 2022
  • Brian Bent Memorial Aquatics Complex, Coronado, California
  • LCM (50m) pool
  • Results 

The 2022 San Diego-Imperial LC Age Group Champs were held earlier this month in Coronado, California. Pacific Swim won the combined title over Rancho San Dieguito by 825 points. Pacific Swim won on both the girls and boys side, propelling them to the overall team victory.

Team Scores–Combined:

  1. Pacific Swim: 5,215
  2. Rancho San Dieguito: 4,390
  3. South Bay Aquatics: 2,645
  4. Heartland Swim Association:1,728
  5. Coronado Swim Assoc-Team Elite: 1,212

Team Scores–Boys:

  1. Pacific Swim: 2,873
  2. Rancho San Dieguito: 2,292
  3. South Bay Aquatics: 1,227
  4. Heartland Swim Association: 915
  5. Swim San Diego: 556

Team Scores–Girls:

  1. Pacific Swim: 2,342
  2. Rancho San Dieguito: 2,098
  3. South Bay Aquatics: 1, 418
  4. Heartland Swim Association: 813
  5. Coronado Swim Assoc-Team Elite: 674

The meet featured top talent among Southern California age group swimmers, many of whom had just competed at the Western Zone Age Group Champs. Aslan Lofthus from South Bay Aquatics broke the meet record in the 13-14 Boys 100 free with a time of 54.21. The 14-year-old also claimed first place finishes in all but one of his six individual events, sweeping the freestyle events from the 50 to the 400. 

Derek Ho from Rancho San Dieguito also broke a meet record in the 13-14 Boys 200 IM with a time of 2:13.26. Ho won five out of  his six individual events, including sweeping the IMs and breastrokes. 11-year-old Addison Hou from Pacific Swim also put up impressive performances in the breastrokes, going 36.10 and 1:19.67. Additionally, Hou won the Boys 11-12 100 fly, dropping over four seconds to go 1:07.61. 

Catherine Rowe from Pacific Swim was the 13-14 Girls High Point Award winner. The 14-year-old dropped nearly five seconds in the 200 back to win with a 2:24.49. She also dropped over five seconds in the 200 breaststroke (2:53.32). 

Rowe’s teammate, 9-year-old Zoe Tran-Wofford, also put up some impressive performances in the 50 (39.38) and 100 back (1:23.84), placing second in both. Fellow 9-year-old Keyi Yang, from Swim San Diego, swept the breaststroke races and dropped almost six seconds in the 100 (1:37.94). Sammy Walseth, from Rancho San Dieguito, was the high point winner for girls 10&U. Walseth won six individual events and contributed to two winning relays. 

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cynthia curran
1 year ago

https://www.ocregister.com/2022/08/29/judges-tentative-ruling-would-oust-3-from-mission-viejo-city-council/ To the north of them. Well Wendy Buckhum, City Council person on Mission Viejo is force out with other members do to delaying elections to a ward system. Buckhum like Brian Goodell swam for the Nadadores, so with the recent court orders to changed things like Buckhum is out until an election and Goodell can’t service to 2024, the Nadaores have less of a hold in the Mission Viejo City Council if new people come in.