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Thursday, December 30, 2004

Boys Team Wins 9 Gold Medals

By Harold Smith
Mountain View Telegraph
    The Manzano High boys swimming team earned nine of the 12 available gold medals to win the six-team Piedra Vista Invitational in Farmington on Dec. 18.
    "The boys are doing really well," said Monarchs coach Tammy Clarke. "They won by a hundred points. We won almost every event. Our next big meet is in Las Cruces. That will be a toughie."
    Manzano took the 400-yard freestyle relay and the 200 medley relay events in Farmington.
    Individually, three Monarchs were double winners:
   

Taylor Busby, 200 and 500 free.
   

Arne Meeuw, 50 free and 100 butterfly.
   

Scott Olson, 100 free and 100 backstroke.
    Phil Babicz was the victor in the 200 individual medley.
    Meanwhile, the Manzano girls placed fifth out of seven teams. Tiva North won the 500 free.
    The top Lady Monarch, Marissa Campbell, was competing at the Kerr-McGee, a USA Swimming club meet, in Oklahoma.
    Clarke said she didn't have the complete Piedra Vista results— including team scores and event times— in her possession over the holiday period.
    High school swimming events are measured in yards. Diving is in meters.
    MANZANO QUADRANGULAR: The Monarchs boys placed second with 122 points and the girls took third with 113 at Albuquerque Academy's natatorium on Dec. 11.
    The St. Michael's boys and girls were first. Respectively, they scored 187 and 196 points.
    For the boys, Cibola was third at 121, and Rio Grande was last with 75. In the girls' meet, Cibola was second with 155, and Rio was fourth at 46.
    The Monarchs' top finishers included:
   

Campbell, girls 200 free: first, 2 minutes, 9.85 seconds.
   

Boys 400 free relay (Babicz, Meeuw, Busby, Taylor Mitchell): first, 3:38.71.
   

Busby, boys 100 breaststroke (second, 1:08.00); 200 IM (second, 2:06.74).
   

Boys 200 medley relay (Babicz, Evan Anderson, Meeuw, Busby): second, 1:50.92.
   

Girls 400 free relay (North, Campbell, Kelly Bolling, Ashley Mitchell): second, 4:20.58.
   

Babicz, boys 100 free: third, 53.91.
   

Jackie Martinez, girls 100 breast: third, 1:32.30
   

Taylor Mitchell, boys 50 free: third, 25.45.
   

Jonathan Neiser, boys 200 free: third, 2:16.88.
   

North, girls 100 back: third, 1:11.40.
   

Girls 200 medley relay (North, Martinez, Campbell, Bolling): third, 2:10.58.
    Albuquerque Public Schools East diving coach Nicole Smith said Lauren Jaramillo, a Tijeras resident, qualified for the state championships with her Dec. 11 dive.
    Jaramillo was second with a score of 109.25 points.
    "To qualify for state, they have to complete every dive, all six of them, (to add up to a total) for an 11 degree of difficulty," Smith said.
    CHARGER INVITATIONAL: Campbell, a freshman, set two meet records at this highly competitive 16-team meet at Academy on Dec. 4.
    Campbell's record times won the girls 50 free in 24.40 and the 100 back in 58.34.
    "I was surprised," said Clarke, who noted Campbell had been injured. "Her foot is better. She did quite well."
    Olson, a senior, was first in the boys 100 back. His winning time was 1:00.71.
    "That was a surprise, too," Clarke said. "I didn't think that time would win, but it did, and he's happy and I'm glad."
    Jaramillo took 16th in the girls diving competition.
    "She did quite well for her first meet," Clarke said. "And Adrian Carver (Manzano's boy diver) is back. He was doing wrestling, but he had an injury and decided to finish off his senior year in diving."
    Rookie swimmer Chris Del Barga, a freshman from Sandia Knolls, got his feet wet competing in his first individual events ever.
    Del Barga was 42nd in the 100 free, and he was 50th in the 50 free. He also was part of the Monarchs' 200 free relay foursome that finished 21st.
    Reflecting a lack of depth, the Manzano boys earned an overall 11th place with 177 points. The Lady Monarchs were 12th with 194.
    The Academy boys and girls won their meet with respective scores of 692 and 1,058.
    Manzano's boys and the girls will face the other 10 APS schools in the city meet at the Academy facility this year because the Highland Pool is being renovated. The diving competition will be at the Sandia Pool.
    The city girls meet is Jan. 21-22. The boys meet is Jan. 28-29.
   
   
    Wrestling
    Next Up: Moriarty High hosts Manzano and six other teams at Pinto Duals in Moriarty Middle School gym, today, 11 a.m.
   
   
   
   
    Swimming
    Up Next: Manzano boys and girls— Las Cruces Invitational at New Mexico State University, Jan. 8, 10 a.m.