GIRLS' SWIMMING DAILY NEWS ALL-AREA TEAM AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON SWIMMER OF THE YEAR.Byline: Compiled by Ross Siler Staff Writer Brett Shiflett, Oaks Christian, Sr. Shiflett started her career at Oaks Christian competing on her own for a first-year school that did not even have a pool, let alone a swim team. She ended it standing alone as arguably ar·gu·a·ble adj. 1. Open to argument: an arguable question, still unresolved. 2. That can be argued plausibly; defensible in argument: three arguable points of law. the top athlete in the school's history. Shiflett won six Southern Section Div. IV career titles and set section records in four events. The final two came this year in the 100-yard freestyle (51.15 seconds) and the 200 freestyle (1:49.80). Both times earned Shiflett automatic All-America honors and ranked in the top 25 nationally. There was little Shiflett didn't do, including being a repeat selection as the Daily News Swimmer of the Year. Shiflett overcame considerable adversity during her career, dislocating her kneecap kneecap (patella), saucer-shaped bone at the front of the knee joint; it protects the ends of the femur, or thighbone, and the tibia, the large bone of the foreleg. The kneecap is embedded in the tendon tissue of the quadriceps femoris, a large thigh muscle. her sophomore year and losing her father to a heart attack in her junior year. As a freshman, Shiflett's mother had to drive her to Oxnard just so she could compete in meets unattached. But Oaks Christian's swim team now has swelled to more than 50 members, with the boys' and girls' teams placing in the top five at the section championships. The final act for Shiflett came at her team's banquet last month, which ended with a video shown of Shiflett's career highlights set to music. And she will go down in history as the swimmer who started it all at the school. ``People have said that a lot recently,'' said Shiflett, who is taking the summer off from competition. ``It's kind of weird to hear.'' Her only regret was not being able to defend her section titles in her sophomore year, in which she twice finished second. The knee injury forced Shiflett to give up basketball and was the only thing keeping her from going a perfect 8 for 8 at the section meet. Shiflett will swim next season for Ivy League Ivy League Group of eight universities in the northeastern U.S., high in academic and social prestige, that are members of an athletic conference for intercollegiate gridiron football dating to the 1870s. champion Princeton. She leaves a legacy at Oaks Christian as the school's first section champion and first All-American in any sport. ``She's just a great person,'' coach David Moore David Moore is a common English name and may refer to:
FIRST TEAM Emily Bibb bibb n. 1. Nautical A bracket on the mast of a ship to support the trestletrees. 2. A bibcock. [Alteration of bib.] , La Reina La Reina (Spanish: "The queen") is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It consistently ranks in the top five communes with the best quality of life in the Metropolitan Region. , Fr. Don't be surprised to see Bibb lead La Reina to the girls' Div. IV team title next year. The Regents finished second this season as Bibb won the 50 freestyle in 24.11. But her more impressive performance might have been taking second in 51.56 to Shiflett in the 100 freestyle. Only four freshmen in the nation had a faster time in the event. Maryann Boosalis, La Canada, Jr. Boosalis was unable to win her third consecutive Div. II title in the 100 breaststroke - finishing second to Corona Del Mar Del Mar is the name of several places in the United States of America:
Vanda Gyuris, Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , So. No one could accuse Gyuris of not trying something new this season. Rather than defend her Div. II title in the 100 freestyle, Gyuris opted to swim the 100 butterfly and 50 freestyle - back-to-back events - and finished fourth in each. But Gyuris did help the Thousand Oaks girls end Royal of Simi Valley's three-year run of league team titles. Alexa Merz, Harvard-Westlake, Jr. The same day as the Div. I championships, Merz lifted weights with her club team in the morning. She did not taper for the meet, but her results were surprisingly good: third place in the 50 and 100 freestyles. Merz also won Mission League titles in the same events while never shifting her focus from qualifying for this summer's Olympic Trials. Lizette Patterson, Saugus, Jr. Patterson could be forgiven for not wanting the high school season to end. She clocked personal-best times in the 200 individual medley and 100 breaststroke at the Div. I championships two weeks after doing likewise at the Speedo An earlier scalable font technology from Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA (www.bitstream.com). Speedo fonts used the .SPD extension. See FaceLift. Grand Challenge. Also, she helped the Saugus girls to their first Foothill League team title. Sara Sun, Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. , Fr. Sun attempted one of the strangest doubles seen in swimming, competing in the 50 and 500 freestyle. She won the two events at the Royal Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. before taking eighth in the 50 and second in the 500 at the Div. I championships. Sun's best time of 4:52.19 in the 500 was the second-best by a freshman in the country. Leah Tourtellotte, Alemany, Sr. Tourtellotte won the Mission League championship in the 200 individual medley by nearly four seconds and took second and sixth, respectively, in the 100 freestyle and 200 individual medley at the Div. I championships. Her time of 52.21 seconds in the 100 freestyle was good for All-America consideration. Leah is five minutes older than her twin brother, Joel, who was selected to the All-Area boys' team. Renee Viveros, Alemany, Sr. Despite not being fully recovered from a bout with food poisoning food poisoning, acute illness following the eating of foods contaminated by bacteria, bacterial toxins, natural poisons, or harmful chemical substances. It was once customary to classify all such illnesses as "ptomaine poisoning," but it was later discovered that she suffered at the Mexican Olympic Trials, Viveros took second in the 100 backstroke (57.34) and third in the 100 butterfly (56.45) both in automatic All-America times. She also won Mission League titles in the same events. COACH OF THE YEAR Teresa Frias, Cleveland A former Birmingham of Lake Balboa swimmer, Frias never planned on returning to the Valley to coach high school swimming after she graduated from Salem International University ‡≈°d Salem International University is a small college in Salem, West Virginia. It has about 300 students, enrolled in 2 and 4 year degree programs, graduate programs, and classes are available through both on-campus learning environments and online courses. in West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. . Frias was set to move to San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. in 2000 before she was recommended to succeed Barbara Suto and Jim Cromwell as coach at Cleveland of Reseda. ``It kind of fell in my lap,'' she said. So Frias, of course, ended up being the coach who brought a City Section team title back to the Valley. The Cleveland girls won the school's first City championship, ending Palisades' three-year run of titles. Frias has seen the Cavaliers program grow from 25 swimmers in the beginning to more than 80 now. The team originally was filled with seasonal swimmers from Frias' classes but has added club swimmers in Chungah Rhee and Michael Chiu. Every time her team hits the water, Frias has a motivational quote waiting - one favorite is ``Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.'' She also instituted optional morning practices for her team. Although Cleveland did not beat rival El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
And Frias has no plans of going anywhere in the near future. Now the goal is winning another championship. CAPTION(S): 10 photos, 7 boxes Photo: (1 -- color) BRETT SHIFLETT Evan Yee/Staff Photographer (2 -- color) EMILY BIBB (3 -- color) LIZETTE PATTERSON (4 -- color) SARA SUN (5 -- color) ALEXA MERZ (6 -- color) LEAH TOURTELLOTTE (7 -- color) RENNE VIVEROS (8 -- color) VANDA GYURIS (9 -- color) MARYANN BOOSALIS (10 -- color) TERESA FRIAS Box: (1) Honor Roll honor roll n. A list of names of people worthy of honor, especially: a. A list of students who have earned high grades during a specified period. b. A list of people who have served in the armed forces. (2) Five teams to Watch (3) Five freshman to Watch (4) Race of the Year (5) Honorable Mention (6) Biggest Disappointment (7) Biggest Surprise |
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