Swimming: North Bay contingent heading to state championship meet – The Press Democrat

A bunch of highschool swimmers from Sonoma and Napa counties is transferring on to the state championships after standout performances on the North Coast Section meet over the weekend.

The NCS meet, held Friday and Saturday at College of Marin’s Indian Valley campus in Novato, drew rivals from across the Bay Area and Northern California.

Four native swimmers secured berths for the state championships by delivering automatic-qualifying instances in no less than one in every of their races. Those 4 additionally had state consideration instances in different occasions.

Three different people and three relay groups from the North Bay additionally delivered state consideration instances of their occasions, and now await Monday’s launch of the official lineup for this week’s state meet to see in the event that they made it.

Analy’s Travis Black will return to the state championships after qualifying within the 200-yard freestyle occasion. His time of 1:39.74 was .20 seconds higher than the automated qualification time of 1:39.94.

Black additionally swam a state consideration time of fifty.39 within the 100-yard backstroke. The computerized qualification time in that occasion was 49.94.

Cardinal Newman junior Sienna Menconi can also be heading to the state meet for the second straight yr, having routinely certified within the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 51.35 — simply beating the qualification time of 51.40.

Menconi additionally swam a 57.15 within the 100-yard backstroke, lacking the automated time of 56.33 however incomes consideration for state.

Petaluma’s Lucy Howell certified for state within the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 55.81. She then swam a consideration time within the 50-yard freestyle with a mark of 23.90, not far off the 23.69 mark wanted for computerized berths.

And Technology High freshman Lucas Young, who completed fourth within the 100-yard breaststroke race Saturday with a time of 55.84, was properly forward of the 56.38 qualification mark. He additionally produced a consideration time within the 200-yard particular person medley with a time of 1:53.23.

Other North Bay swimmers could get the decision for the state meet after delivering qualification instances.

The American Canyon duo of Juliana Bondoc and Raphael Cueva swam properly of their occasions. Cueva swam a 21.25 within the boys’ 50-yard freestyle, which has a qualifying threshold of 20.89. Bondoc swam a 1:04.68 within the women’ 100-yard breaststroke, simply off of the automated qualification time of 1:04.24.

Sonoma Valley’s Marcus Tomola delivered a 51.51 within the 100-yard backstroke and also will await his destiny on Monday.

The Maria Carrillo boys’ 200-yard freestyle relay group had one other stellar outing, setting a brand new faculty file within the occasion in the course of the preliminary heats with a time of 1:26.73. They then swam a 1:26.88 within the finals on Saturday, ok for a state consideration time.

The different two relay groups warning state consideration are the Petaluma women within the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:38.61) and the American Canyon women within the 200-yard medley relay (1:50.60).

Full entries can be launched Monday. The state championships start Thursday in Clovis.