Girls Swimming Athlete of the Week

Girls swim athlete of the week: Daniela Georges, Woodbridge

By DAN ALBANO

Daniela Georges Woodbridge The freshman captured the 200-yard freestyle at the CIF-SS Division 1 finals in a lifetime-best and county-leading 1 minute, 47.11 seconds and finished second in the 500 free in a lifetime-best 4:44.00, Georges’ tim... Full story

Girls swim athlete of the week: Lynea Baudino, Los Alamitos

By DAN ALBANO

Lynea Baudino Los Alamitos High School The junior captured the 50-yard freestyle in 23.40 seconds – second-fastest in Orange County this spring and eighth all-time – to help the Griffins capture the Sunset League title. Baudino also pla... Full story

Girls swim athlete of the week: Brittany Kahn, JSerra

By DAN ALBANO

Brittany Kahn JSerra The freshman smashed the meet-record in the 500-yard freestyle by over four seconds with a 4:55.67 at the Trinity League prelims Saturday. Kahn’s time ranks second in the county.... Full story

Girls swim athlete of the week: Alexandra Caplan, Mission Viejo

By DAN ALBANO

Alexandra Caplan Mission Viejo High School The sophomore diver captured her third consecutive meet title by finishing first at the Santa Margarita Invitational at Crown Valley Community Park on Saturday. Caplan won a 32-girl final with an 11-dive s... Full story

Girls swim athlete of the week: Ella Eastin, Crean Lutheran

By DAN ALBANO

Ella Eastin Crean Lutheran The freshman captured the 100-yard backstroke in an Orange County-leading 55.47 seconds and the 100 butterfly in 55.22, ranked second in the county, at the Murrieta Valley Invitational. Eastin shared female high-point hon... Full story

Girls swim athlete of the week: Kylie Boyce, Edison

By DAN ALBANO

KYLIE BOYCE EDISON The junior captured the 100-yard breaststroke in an Orange County-leading 1:05.29 and won the 200 free in a second-ranked 1:49.73 at the Klaus Barth Rock’n Roll Invitational at Belmont Plaza in Long Beach. She also led off ... Full story

Girls swim athlete of the week: Lindsey Engel, Crean Lutheran

By DAN ALBANO

Lindsey Engel Crean Lutheran The sophomore blazed to Orange County-leading times in capturing the 100-yard freestyle (50.16 seconds) and 100 backstroke (55.88) at the Mission Viejo Invitational on Saturday. She also lowered her own meet-record in t... Full story

Girls swim athlete of the week: Cheyenne Low, University

By DAN ALBANO

Cheyenne Low University The junior raced on three winning relays to help the top-ranked Trojans capture the Millikan Southern Section Relays for the first time. Low anchored the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:30.20) in a swift 50.20 seconds, led off t... Full story

Girls swimmer of the week: Michaela Merlihan, Esperanza

By DAN ALBANO

Girls swimmer of the week (3-19-12) Michaela Merlihan Esperanza, Jr. Merlihan posted the second-fastest 200-yard freestyle (1:52.55) in the county and the third-ranked 500 free (5:01.57) plus raced on two winning relays to lead the No. 3 Aztecs pa... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Brooke Lorentzen, Capistrano Valley

By DAN ALBANO

Brooke Lorentzen Capistrano Valley The sophomore captured the 200 (1:53.87) and 500 (4:54.27) freestyles in county-leading times to lead the Cougars past Aliso Niguel, 100-70, in a South Coast League meet.... Full story

Girls swim athlete of the week: Katie McLaughlin, JSerra

By DAN ALBANO

Girls swimmer of the week (3-8-12) Katie McLaughlin JSerra The freshman blazed to the fifth-fastest 100-yard butterfly in Orange County history (lifetime-best 54.70 seconds) and won the 100 freestyle in a county-leading and meet-record 51.67 secon... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Shelby Webber, Fountain Valley

By DAN ALBANO

Shelby Webber Fountain Valley The senior won the 200-yard individual medley in a county-leading 2:00.28 and the 100 freestyle in a 49.90 at the CIF-SS Division 1 swim finals at Belmont Plaza in Long Beach. She became only the fourth county gir... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Melanie Klaren, Aliso Niguel

By DAN ALBANO

Melanie Klaren Aliso Niguel The Cal-bound senior blazed to the second-fastest 200-yard freestyle in county history by finish in 1 minute, 46.40 at the South Coast League finals. She also broke two-time Olympian Kaitlin Sandeno’s league rec... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Melanie Klaren, Aliso Niguel

By DAN ALBANO

Melanie Klaren Aliso Niguel The Cal-bound senior won the 500 freestyle in 4 minutes, 54.81 seconds, second fastest in the county, to help the Wolverines defeat Dana Hills, 104-66.... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Jamie Dang, Fountain Valley

By DAN ALBANO

Jaime Dang Fountain Valley The sophomore won the 100-yard butterfly (county-leading 56.29 seconds), 100 free (52.35) and led off the winning 200 free relay in 24.61 to earn female swimmer of the meet at the Klaus Barth Rock’n Roll Invite on... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Ellie Morrissey, Edison

By DAN ALBANO

Ellie Morrissey Edison The junior won the 100-yard butterfly in a county-leading 57.05 seconds, finished third in the 200 IM (2:06.33) and led off the 400 free relay in 51.98 to help the Chargers capture the Mt. SAC Spring Meet of Champions.... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Casey Mims, JSerra

By DAN ALBANO

Casey Mims JSerra The Cal-bound senior blazed to county-leading times in the 200-yard individual medley (2:05.32) and 100 breaststroke (1:03.84) in a 121-49 loss against Santa Margarita. Her time in the breaststroke qualified for automatic... Full story

Girls scholar-athlete of the week: El Toro's Torey Kruisheer

By DAN ALBANO

TOREY KRUISHEER EL TORO SWIMMING GPA: 4.3 Finished seventh in the 100-yard backstroke (58.34) at last year’s CIF Division 1 finals. Also was Sea View League runner-up in the backstroke and butterfly in 2010. Taking AP calcul... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Lindsey Engel, Crean Lutheran

BY DAN ALBANO

Lindsey Engel Crean Lutheran The freshman smashed Courtney Cashion's meet record in the 100-yard freestyle by clocking a county-leading time of 50.51 seconds at the Mission Viejo Invitational on Saturday. She also won the 100 backstroke in a county... Full story

Relay of the week: Edison's girls 400 free

By DAN ALBANO

Edison's girls 400-yard free relay    The Chargers' team of Alli Gillespie, Nicole Boyce (53.49), Alys Williams (52.62) and Ellie Morrissey (50.46) blazed to a meet-record 3:28.78 at the Millikan Southern Section Relays -- a time that ran... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Ellie Morrissey, Edison

By DAN ALBANO

Ellie Morrissey Edison The junior anchored two record-setting relays and helped another win to help the Chargers roll to the title at the girls Millikan Southern Section Relays at Belmont Plaza in Long Beach on Saturday night. Morrissey highlighted... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Megan Rankin, University

By DAN ALBANO

Megan Rankin University, Jr. The distance freestyler blazed to an automatic All-America and county-leading time of 4 minutes, 53.72 seconds in the 500-yard freestyle at Laguna Hills. Rankin also captured the 200 freestyle in 1:53.89.... Full story

Girls swimming athlete of the week: Lindsey Engel, Crean Lutheran

By DAN ALBANO

LINDSEY ENGELCREAN LUTHERANIn her first high school meet, the freshman sprinted to county-leading times in the 50- (24.24) and 100-yard (52.22) freestyles at the inaugural JSerra Invitational.... Full story

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