Sierra Faculty Males, Mt. San Antonio Girls, Declare 2025 3C2A State Titles
The 2025 California Neighborhood Faculty Athletic Affiliation State Championships introduced collectively the easiest of California group faculty swimming. A half dozen state data went down, and historical past was made on each the boys’s and ladies’s sides. Mt. San Antonio picked up its first 3C2A state title in group historical past, whereas the Sierra Faculty males wrapped up their fifth straight title.
Males’s Day One
The meet kicked off with a bang, when in preliminary heats of the boys’s 200 particular person medley, Cayden Pitzer set a brand new 3C2A document at a 1:46.80. The American River Faculty sophomore exploded to shatter the earlier document by three tenths.
ARC picked up the primary of many meet wins within the finals session within the 200 freestyle relay. Gar Lengthy (21.04), John Branson (20.37), Davyd Tsypan (20.24) and Pitzer (20.01), got here up simply wanting the state document however claimed the win at a 1:21.66. Cuesta’s Grant Huston took the primary particular person occasion, claiming the five hundred freestyle in 4:24.98. Huston, brother of Cal Poly swimmer Drew Huston, gained the occasion by eight seconds.
Pitzer backed up his prelims document with the third quickest 3C2A swim ever and a gold medal 1:47.63. Sierra Faculty’s Genoa Nixon gained silver at 1:50.73. Bakersfield sophomore Cody Hart claimed the 50 freestyle title (20.22) in a tightly contested subject that noticed six swimmers beneath 21.00.
American River Faculty picked up a 3rd general occasion win on Day One, shattering the 400 medley relay 3C2A document by practically a second at a 3:16.58. The Beaver males have been all on hearth. Branson (50.64), Pitzer (52.81), Tsypan (47.84) and Lengthy (45.29) gave an indicator of data to return, besting the sphere by three seconds.
Males’s Day Two
ARC opened up the finals session in lockstep with their Day One performances. As soon as once more within the 200 medley relay, it was Branson (22.88), Pitzer (23.89), Tsypan (21.76) and Lengthy (20.33) besting the 3C2A document by a second to fit in at 1:28.86. Ending second, the Riverside Metropolis Faculty group of Lennon Franklin (23.42), Jared Ladinez (25.16), Zeke Serrano (21.13) and Yousef Nahali (19.79) additionally bought beneath the earlier document by 29 hundredths, swimming a 1:29.50.
Jake M. Kiss introduced a 3C2A title residence for Golden West Faculty within the 400 particular person medley. M. Kiss got here in at a 3:57.68 to clear the sphere by six seconds.
Tsypan opened a unclean double with a win within the 100 butterfly at a 48.12. Persevering with a exhibiting of depth throughout all colleges, three males have been beneath 49.00 and an extra six beneath 50.00. Cuesta Faculty’s Huston doubled up with the 200 freestyle, blasting a 1:37.69 to greatest Sierra’s Troy Quintana (1:39.29) by a second and a half.
After reducing the document to a 53.07 in prelims, Pitzer exploded to a 52.98 in finals of the 100 breaststroke. Pitzer’s swim slots inside the prime 50 occasions within the nation this yr. RCC’s Ladinez took the runnerup place nicely again at a 55.63.
Tsypan doubled up within the 100 backstroke, successful at a 49.17. He break up 24.31/24.86, which noticed him third on the 50 earlier than roaring residence for gold.
There was no stopping Sierra Faculty within the 800 freestyle relay, as the college threw down a 6:44.70 assertion for gold. Brock Sippola (1:41.76), Rhett Wildenradt (1:41.32), Tyler Nattrass (1:42.08) and Quintana (1:39.54) gained by eight seconds over Bakersfield.
The lads’s 1 and three meter diving occasions have been taken by Faculty of Marin phenom Ben Lentz.
Males’s Day Three
The preliminary warmth of the boys’s 1650 might have been mistaken for a finals swim with medals on the road. Santa Rosa’s Kai Holt and Los Angeles Pierce’s Jhan Lonina held tempo with one another for practically all the race. The athletes, cheered on by roaring teammates, completed simply 24 hundredths aside, Holt in 16:39.72 to Lhonina’s 16:39.96. Holt’s mark ended up ending eighth general. Jack Painton put Mt. San Antonio on the map with a win within the championship remaining at a 15:53.60. The ultimate as soon as once more had a unbelievable race on show between Painton and Golden Wests’ Ryan Novak (15.54.43).
The lads’s 100 particular person medley, an occasion being contested for the primary time on the 3C2A stage, was taken by RCC’s Serrano in a 50.67. By advantage of the occasion’s inaugural remaining, Serrano set a brand new 3C2A document. Tsypan accomplished triple No. 2 for the ARC Beavers within the 200 backstroke (1:44.75), as soon as once more a state document.
Huston accomplished a 3rd triple within the 100 freestyle, holding off the quickly closing subject to win at a 44.26. Pitzer made it three triples accomplished in as many males’s occasions within the 200 breaststroke, narrowly lacking the document with a 1:58.39 win. Sierra Faculty’s Michael Hansen challenged him all through, settling for silver at 1:59.12. Nathaniel D’Aloisio from LBCC waited round all weekend earlier than making his transfer on the ultimate 50 of the 200 butterfly, taking the win in a 1:48.63.
American River Faculty sealed up a tough fought meet within the 400 freestyle relay. Pitzer (45.10), Lengthy (46.29), Branson (45.05) and Tsypan (44.62) mixed for a 3:01.06, slightly below a second forward of Riverside Metropolis Faculty.
Males’s Prime 10 Group Scores
Sierra Faculty- 443
American River Faculty- 434
Mt. San Antonio Faculty- 417
Orange Coast Faculty- 379.5
Riverside Metropolis Faculty- 324
Cuesta Faculty- 224
Bakersfield Faculty- 221
Diablo Valley Faculty- 220.5
Golden West Faculty- 211
Ohlone Faculty- 134
Girls’s Day One
The primary occasion of the ladies’s meet, the 200 freestyle relay, introduced a state document within the 50 free. Camille Seiley of Grossmont clipped the mark by a hundredth, main off in a 23.23. Santa Barbara Metropolis Faculty’s Lily Carrick (24.67), Erin Otsuki (25.25), Leah Rummelhoff (23.72) and Maddie Myers (23.47) mixed to a 1:37.11 win.
Carrick took the primary particular person occasion for SBCC, successful the five hundred freestyle in a 5:00.64. The ladies’s 200 particular person medley went to Allen Hancock sophomore Noemi Bravo-Guzman, who ran down the sphere to swim a 2:05.71, simply hundredths forward of El Camino’s Iyanah Samayoa (2:06.00).
Grossmont’s Seiley broke the document outright within the 50 freestyle remaining, reducing it to a 23.16 for the win. Mt. San Antonio took the 400 medley relay, with Paige Quick (1:00.04), Spencer Damaske (1:07.76), Elleanna Ramos (57.13) and Carolyn Kao (51.67) working collectively. LA Valley’s Ciera Heart took the 1 meter diving, scoring 276.50 factors for a brand new 3C2A document.
Girls’s Day Two
Mt. SAC doubled up within the 200 medley relay, with Quick (28.11), Damaske (30.42), Ramos (25.92) and Kao (23.66) sealing the deal at a 1:48.11. Carrick (4:27.00) doubled up within the 400 particular person medley, operating down Bravo-Guzman (4:27.47) as each swimmers shattered the state document by over two seconds.
ARC’s Caitlin Wham made it a second straight ladies’s document within the 100 butterfly, successful in a 54.77. SBCC’s Myers took the 200 freestyle in a 1:53.72, simply forward of Kao (1:54.63). Samayoa redeemed her runnerup end on Evening One within the 100 breaststroke remaining, successful in a 1:03.41. In an upset victory, De Anza’s Joyce Lin hacked 1.3 seconds off her seed to assert the 100 backstroke title at a 57.02.
ARC took the 800 freestyle relay, with Audrey Ng (1:57.15), Sara Ashby (2:07.08), Mia Verwoest (1:57.26) and Wham (1:53.08) sealing the deal at a 7:54.57.
Heart doubled up within the 3-meter diving, successful at 287.15 factors, one other 3C2A document.
Girls’s Day Three
The ladies’s 100 particular person medley gave De Anza’s Lin a second win, as soon as once more an enormous greatest time of 58.85. Bravo-Guzman secured a second win, narrowly lacking the 3C2A document within the 200 backstroke with a 2:01.70.
Seiley, redeeming a disqualification within the 200 freestyle, stormed to the 100 free win in a 50.97. Additionally securing a second win within the 200 breaststroke was El Camino’s Samayoa with a 2:15.93. She was out like a rocket, 1:05.31, earlier than coming residence to interrupt the mark by two seconds. San Diego Mesa’s Sydney Fortune took second, additionally beneath 2:20 with a 2:19.65.
Ramos took the ladies’s 200 butterfly, 4 seconds forward of the sphere for a 2:06.74. Grossmont’s Maya Garcia-Hale took second at a 2:10.46. Each swimmers have been nicely forward of the sphere, with RCC’s Nicole Robertson claiming third in a 2:20.00.
SBCC took the ultimate occasion of the meet, with Rummelhoff (53.85), Sofia Paez (53.61), Carrick (52.61) and Myers (50.66) combining to a 3:30.73 within the 400 freestyle relay.
Girls’s Prime 10 Group Scores
Mt. San Antonio Collee- 440
Santa Barbara Metropolis Faculty- 424
American River Faculty- 305
Diablo Valley Faculty/Sierra Faculty- 270
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Santa Rosa Junior Faculty- 245
Orange Coast Faculty- 236
Lengthy Seaside Metropolis Faculty- 207
San Joaquin Delta Faculty- 175
San Diego Mesa Faculty- 170
