Bearcat swim & dive PAC 8 Championship results
Contributed by PRHS Coach Michael Sauret
—With 13 new CIF times achieved, Paso Robles boys and girls swimming had many tremendous performances at the PAC 8 Championship meet in Arroyo Grande on Thursday. In a meet where every swimmer had at least one season best time, it is difficult to narrow down the top achievements.
On the girl’s side sophomore Audrey Hughes won first in both the 50 free and the 100 back; where she was only a tenth of a second off of a 22-year-old school record. Freshman Kendall Moffitt won the 200 free and took second in the 500 free, narrowly touching out teammate Mackenzie Raymond who was second in the 200 and third in the 500. Other dominate performances came from freshman Abigail Springer (fifth in the 200 IM and fourth in the 500), Emily Christian (third in the 200 IM), Gabriel Clayton (fifth in the 100 free), Tatiana Smeltzer (fifth in the 100 back), and Sarah Clark (sixth in the 100 fly). Paso Relays also found a lot of success in all three of girl’s attained CIF times, including a 400 freestyle relay first place finish to cement their second place standing at the meet.
The boy’s started the meet with a third place finish in the 200 Medley relay (John Nash, Zack Tucker, Ethan Moore, and Gavin Hughes). Senior Gavin Hughes had two of the top Bearcat boy’s finishes with a third in the 500 freestyle and fourth in the 200 free. Senior Zach Tucker had a third place finish in the 100 breast, dropping three seconds, 1:04.06. Freshman Joshua Picard earned sixth in the 200 IM and eigth in the 100 breast, John Nash was seventh in the 100 back, and Ethan Moore was eighth in the 100 fly. The boys ended up in fourth place after many strong performances.
This weekend we will find out how many of our amazing swimmers qualified for the Division 2 Southern Section CIF meet down in Riverside. Go Bearcats!
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