Derivaux chasing USA World Juniors gold in Romania

This summer time, latest and present South Jersey scholastic athletes are carrying the banner for Team USA in competitions which are — to borrow a phrase — spanning the globe to provide the fixed number of sport. We can be checking in on a few of South Jersey’s greats all summer time lengthy.

It’s a reasonably good yr when your Sweet 16 is barely one of many largest issues to occur through the summer time.

Audrey Derivaux is having a summer time for the ages — and he or she’s removed from executed.

The Haddonfield swimming star will not even be junior till subsequent month and he or she is about to make her mark For Team USA on the World Aquatics Junior Championships in Otopeni, Romania beginning in a single day on Tuesday.

With a seven-hour time distinction, Derivaux is scheduled to swim preliminary heats in 5 occasions at 2:30 a.m. our time over the course of the occasion, beginning with the 400-meter particular person medley on Tuesday. On successive days she’s going to compete within the 200 butterfly, 200 backstroke, 200 IM and 100 butterfly. Finals in every occasion are scheduled for between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. every day aside from 100 fly, which has semifinals the identical day, then a closing on Sunday at 11:30 a.m.

Amazingly, Derivaux is seeded both first or second in 4 of the 5 occasions she’s going to full in. She is the highest seed in each the 200 butterfly and 200 IM. Derivaux is the No. 2 seed within the 200 backstroke and 100 butterfly. She is seeded sixth in her first occasion, the 400 IM.

Last month, Derivaux was the dominant feminine determine on the USA Swimming Futures Series Championship occasion in Greensboro, North Carolina. Derivaux received 5 occasions outright (400 freestyle, 100 and 200 again, 200 fly and 200 IM) on the meet.

The Greensboro meet was a part of a nationwide championship collection contested concurrently throughout 5 totally different websites. Derivaux had the quickest time throughout the 5 websites in 4 of the 5 occasions she received and was second within the 100 backstroke.

Not resting on her laurels nationally, Derivaux took outing of her coaching schedule to compete for Wedgewood within the Tri-County Swimming Pool Association Championships earlier this month. Derivaux broke her personal meet file whereas successful the 100-yard particular person medley and received the 100 freestyle after setting a meet file within the preliminay spherical someday earlier.

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Tom Rimback grew up studying the Burlington County Times and Courier Post sports activities sections and commenced writing for the BCT in 1996. He has lined every little thing from Super Bowls and Final Fours to Tri-County Swimming however he’s happiest on a sideline interviewing South Jersey scholastic athletes. Follow him on twitter @Rimbacksports. Email him with story concepts at tomrimback@gmail.com and, most significantly, assist native journalism with a subscription to the Courier-Post.