Santa Barbara's Sports News and Information
The Semana Nautica Age Group Swim Meet returned to Los Baños Pool this 4th of July weekend after a year's absence, during which the historic Santa Barbara landmark put in some work on renovations that would make sure it was stronger in the long run.Leading up to the junior national championships, Santa Barbara Swim Club head coach John Dussliere is making sure his swimmers are doing the same thing."That's the goal of the weekend, no matter what their times are, the plans are … [Read more...]
Talk about a power hour. Former East Beach lifeguard Mike Shaffer held it down on his old stomping grounds Sunday morning, pounding out Semana Nautica's 3-mile open-water swim in 59 minutes and 22 seconds, well ahead of the competition."I used to be a lifeguard on the beach here," reminisced the 44-year-old Shaffer, noting how happy he was to see his former colors during the race. "I was thanking the guy who was paddling with me because I could see his red shorts. I said, 'hey, thanks … [Read more...]
It's been 11 months since Mark Warkentin plunged into the warm waters of the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park on a rainy day in Beijing, where he took eighth place in the Olympic debut of 10k open water swimming.Saturday morning wasn't as comfortable, as a dense fog bank and 59-degree waters had him shivering for the Semana Nautica 1-mile ocean swim. Warkentin held off a stiff challenge from 17-year-old Conrad Antoniuk to win the race at East Beach in 17 minutes, 42 seconds … [Read more...]
Santa Barbara's Lindsay Parrish beat out Dos Pueblos' Emily Rose-Williams by a third of a second in the 50-meter freestyle, good for 3rd place at the CIF Finals meet at Mt. SAC on Friday night.Parrish's time was 23.66 seconds while Rose-Williams' mark of 23.97 was 6th-best in the tight race. Parrish's swim just missed the Dons school record but she successfully broke her season-best time in the 100 butterfly, coming in sixth with a time of 55.37.Lolo Blair notched two top-ten … [Read more...]
Lolo Blair had an outstanding day, breaking Santa Barbara High's school record in the 100 backstroke for fifth place and taking sixth in the 200 free at Wednesday's CIF swimming prelims at Mt. SAC. Fellow USC Trojan-recruit Lindsay Parrish was third in the 50 free and 5th in the 100 butterfly.Karl Boscacci also broke a Dons record in the 500 free and took 11th in the 200 free. Jeff Churchman broke a 24-year-old school record to take ninth place in the 100 backstroke.All eight Dos Pueblos … [Read more...]
After the Jesusita Fire forced a late venue change for the Channel League Swim & Dive Championships on Friday, the Dos Pueblos boys still put together a title-worthy meet at Buena High School while the three local girls teams lost out to Buena and Ventura.The Charger boys, who beat out their Don counterparts 355-319 for the title, got an early boost by sweeping the diving competition. Toby Reaper, Alfred Scott and Dewey Ledbetter went 1-2-3 for DP.COMPLETE RESULTSTEAM … [Read more...]
Chase Racich, Christian Terpening and Karl Boscacci recorded automatic qualifying times for CIF in the Channel League swim prelims on Wednesday and all qualified for Friday's finals in multiple events. Dos Pueblos' Racich and Terpening dominated the 100 freestyle and 100 breaststroke respectively while Santa Barbara's Karl Boscacci beat the field by nearly 10 seconds for the victory in the 500 free. Boscacci also won the 200 free but not in automatic qualifying time.COMPLETE RESULTS … [Read more...]
Santa Barbara High had five swimmers qualify for CIF in Tuesday's Channel League prelims at San Marcos High.Lolo Blair took first place and qualified in both the 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke, while Lindsay Parrish did so in the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly.Samantha King made the finals and qualified in the 500 and 100 free, and Camille Wissman was fifth with a qualification time in the 500 free. Amanda Wilson was fifth in the 200 IM and also made it through to CIF. … [Read more...]
Despite what seemed like an easy victory Friday for the Dos Pueblos swim team, which defeated Santa Barbara 106-64 in the boys event and 111-58 in the girls event, both the Dons and Chargers swam stupendously, setting several personal records and earning CIF consideration times.DP boys head coach Chris Parrish said that the Chargers were able to out-touch the Dons on a number of events, making the meet a much closer win. … [Read more...]
Jade Fitzgerald swam the 50 freestyle in 25.56 seconds Friday, earning the first CIF consideration time standard for a San Marcos swimmer in a decade.The 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams also earned CIF consideration times for the Royals girls, with the 200 squad clocking in at 1:43.76. The team consists of Fitzgerald, Zoe Kirker, Parinda Sukavivatanachai and Brittny Hummel. … [Read more...]
The Santa Barbara Swim Club (SBSC), traveled to Irvine with 12 swimmers who qualified for the prestigious Grand Challenge meet this past weekend in Irvine. The meet featured record breaking swims by Olympic gold medalist Jason Lezak and a host of top national competitors, including fellow Olympians Ous Mellouli and Chloe Sutton. SBSC came home from the swim meet with 30 personal best times. The results were a surprise to everyone but the National Team from SBSC. … [Read more...]
Dos Pueblos' girls swimmers defeated San Marcos 135-51 on Friday, but there were numerous standout performances for Brian Roth's Royals on the day.Emilia Wakamatsu swam personal bests en route to a third-place finish in the 100 butterfly and fourth-place in the 200 IM, with the medley time an improvement of three seconds from her previous best.Autumn Lovett was San Marcos' lone event winner, swimming her fastest time of the year, 1:07.98, in the 100 backstroke. The 4x50 relay team of Zoe … [Read more...]
