2015 California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Swimming & Diving Championships – Division IV
- Diving: Results
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- Location: Riverside City College
- Defending Champions: Cerritos (girls), Cerritos (boys) – 2014 Results
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Division IV – Finals
Between prelims and finals, just about the entire boys’ record book got a makeover: the meet marks in one relay, and all but one individual events, went by the wayside. On the girls’ side, Cerritos broke two relay records but all the individual marks held fast.
Girls’ Meet
| Division IV Girls | Finals | +/-Psych | +/- Prelims |
| Cerritos | 455 | 43 | 2 |
| Alta Loma | 173 | 131 | 0 |
| Quartz Hill | 158 | -6 | 19 |
| Foothill Technology | 150 | 18 | -4 |
| La Reina | 130 | -7 | -2 |
| Rowland | 130 | -27 | 19 |
| Maranatha | 122 | -58 | -47 |
| Nordhoff | 120 | 40 | 6 |
| La Salle | 95 | 21 | 1 |
| Beaumont | 75 | -89 | -29 |
Alta Loma got off to an early start by scoring 28 points in diving, but it was Rebekah Dominik of Valley Christian in Valencia who carried the event with 527.00 points. Michelle Lee of Fairmont Prep scored 497.65 for second; Wella Hsu put Cerritos on the board with her third-place finish (484.05).
Cerritos followed up with the first meet record of the finals session, winning the 200 medley relay in 1:50.09 with Kiri Harvey (27.86), Roxanna Yu (30.42), Maya Valdoria (26.36),and Alexa Ocampo (25.45). went 1:51.41 to lead the qualifiers for finals. Maranatha (1:52.80) and Rowland (2:00.61) were second and third.
Cerritos sophomore Arina Yu won the 200 free in 1:58.61, holding off Buckley senior Sara Wilson (1:58.78) who came home nearly a second faster over the final 50 for an incredibly exciting finish. Mykaela Delgado of Trinity Classical Academy (2:01.90) placed third, just keeping Marshall’s Kennedy Callaway of Marshall (2:02.06) at bay.
La Salle junior Jacqueline Torrez won the first of her two events with 2:06.40 in the 200 IM. Torrez led wire-to-wire but really broke it open in the breaststroke leg. La Reina’s Abby Chopp (2:08.40) and Zoomer Otazu of Maranatha (2:09.43) were even throughout most of the race, but Chopp’s freestyle leg proved decisive in the race for second place. Torrez’ second win came in a near-record-breaking 100 breast. Dropping 1.7 seconds from her prelims swim, Torrez went 1:04.61 to win the event, .07 off the D4 record. Buckley’s Wilson was second in 1:09.16. Cerritos’ Yu rounded out the podium with 1:09.73.
Santa Clarita Christian sophomore Victoria Kirshner clocked a rapid 24.01 to take the 50 free title over Foothill Technology’s Lezly Plahn (24.81) and Alta Loma’s Lindsey Whisler (25.209). Kirshner doubled with a victory in the 100 free as well; she went 52.79 to win by 1.5 seconds over Nicole Johnson of Heritage Christian (54.20).
Cerritos senior Harvey just held off teammate Valdoria to win the 100 fly title, 58.71 to 58.97. Saskia Wong-Smith of Archer School for Girls was third in 1:00.26.
Vistamar freshman Keiko Derikoletis dropped 7 seconds from her prelims time and won the 500 in 5:19.98. Mia Bailey of Alta Loma moved from fourth to second over the last 50 yards, going 5:24.44 to steal the silver medal away from Notre Dame/Riverside’s Juli Hilovsky (5:24.71) and Summer van Houten of Nordhoff (5:25.56).
Cerritos’ Yu (25.43), Breanna Rigor (25.31), Julia Reyes (24.33), and Megan Ma (24.67) broke the D4 record in the 200 free relay, winning in a combined 1:39.74. Quartz Hill (1:45.20) came in second, while there was a tied for third between Foothill Technology and Alta Loma.
Maranatha’s Otazu was the 100 back champion in 55.98, dropping 1.8 seconds from prelims to finals. La Reina’s Chopp placed second in 58.34, just over a second ahead of Cerritos’ Harvey.
A Yu (55.69), Harvey (56.43), Rigor (55.24), and R Yu (54.01) of Cerritos won the 400 free relay with 3:41.37. La Reina (3:48.85) and Foothill Technology (3:51.28.75) rounded out the podium.
Boys’ Meet
| Division IV Boys | Finals | +/-Psych | +/- Prelims |
| Cerritos | 279 | 10 | 0 |
| Malibu | 255 | -22 | -27 |
| Quartz Hill | 181 | 48 | 0 |
| Rowland | 180.5 | -41.5 | 7.5 |
| San Dimas | 167 | 8 | 7 |
| Beaumont | 156.5 | -57.5 | -21.5 |
| Nordhoff | 133 | 24 | 8 |
| Buckley | 124 | 11 | 15 |
| Notre Dame/Riverside | 115 | -43 | -42 |
| Cate | 112 | 5 | -5 |
The boys’ meet was a thrill a minute, as they systematically erased nearly every record on the books.
The onslaught began in diving, when Maranatha freshman Jacob Fielding absolutely crushed the division record with 637.05 points. His teammate, junior Kendall Hollimon, also scored higher than the previous D4 record with his second-place 467.25. Austin Janik of Grace Brethren was third with 381.20.
Cerritos won the 200 medley relay in 1:38.00 with the quartet of Angel Alcala (22.96), Dominick Nevarez (27.73), Alex Alcala (25.35), and Joseph Gomez (21.96). The real excitement took place in the race for second, where Notre Dame/Riverside edged Nordhoff by .04, 1:43.34 to 1:43.38.
After breaking the 200 free D4 meet record in prelims, Malibu senior Logan Hotchkiss lowered it another 6/10 in finals with 1:38.22. Rowland senior Michael Wang placed second with 1:40.77. Between the two of them, the future UCSB teammates ended up with every freestyle D4 meet record. Cate’s Zach Allen earned a bronze medal with his 1:43.09 finish.
Fairmont Prep junior Edgar Chin blasted a 1:58.91 to win the 200 IM from out in lane 3, having qualified fifth in prelims. Next to him in lane 2 was Sean Edwards of Nordhoff, who dropped 3 seconds from his prelims time and ended up with the silver medal with 2:01.17. Chin went on to win the 100 breast by nearly half a pool length, breaking a 2003 D4 meet record of 56.87 with his winning 56.54. It was an impressive swim as he was all alone over the second half of the race. Quartz Hill’s Cody Kewley edged Cerritos’ Nevarez for second, 1:01.98 to 1:02.02.
Rowland senior Andrew Phan (21.24) won gold in the 50 free ahead of Vincent Seildler from Buckley (21.77) and Paul Goetz of Beaumont (21.78). Rowland’s Wang, who had broken the meet record in the 50 free with a relay leadoff of 20.95 in prelims, etched his name in the record books for a second time with his winning 100 free time of 45.58. Goetz was second in the 100 with 48.27.
In the 100 fly, defending champion Angel Alcala of Cerritos lowered his own meet record, set in prelims, with a 49.47 in finals. Cate’s Allen gave him a good chase, finishing second in 50.87. Phan of Rowland was third in 51.54. Alcala later broke his own 100 back record, also set in prelims, with a faster 49.58 in finals. James Torrez of La Salle was second in 53.78, just in front of Arrowhead Christian Academy’s Isaac Yeier (53.96).
Malibu’s Hotchkiss went 4:27.45 to win the 500 by nearly 20 seconds, and in the process broke the D4 meet record set by UCSB’s Andrew Barmann in 2011 by 6/10. Yairo Mojica of Notre Dame/Riverside was second in 4:46.10, while Malibu’s Alec Wilimovsky went 4:46.98 for third.
Malibu won the 200 free relay, but weren’t able to repeat the record they set in prelims. They went 1:29.20 with Hotchkiss (21.75), Hans Cole (23.51), Wilimovsky (22.64) and Heckman (21.30). Rowland, San Dimas, and Beaumont finished within .09 of each other in second, third, and fourth, respectively.
Malibu ended the meet with a decisive win in the 400 free relay; the quartet of Hotchkiss (46.26), Gianluca Purzer (49.49), Wilimovsky (48.92), and Heckman (49.01) finished in 3:13.68.
Records Recap
- Boys 1 meter diving – Jacob Fielding, Maranatha (637.05)
- Girls’ 200 medley relay – Cerritos (1:50.09)
- Boys’ 200 free – Logan Hotchkiss, Mailbu (1:38.22)
- Boys’ 200 free – Logan Hotchkiss, prelims (1:38.89)
- Boys’ 50 free – Michael Wang, Rowland (relay leadoff)
- Boys’ 100 fly – Angel Alcala, Cerritos (49.47)
- Boys’ 100 fly – Angel Alcala, prelims (49.54)
- Boys’ 100 free – Michael Wang, Rowland (45.58)
- Boys’ 100 free – Michael Wang, prelims (45.93)
- Boys’ 500 free – Logan Hotchkiss, Malibu (4:27.45)
- Girls’ 200 free relay – Cerritos (1:39.74)
- Boys’ 200 free relay – Malibu, prelims (1:26.30)
- Boys’ 100 back – Angel Alcala (49.58)
- Boys’ 100 back – Angel Alcala, prelims (49.61)
- Boys’ 100 breast – Edgar Chinn Fairmont Prep (56.54)