SWIMMING: AREA SWIMMERS CONTINUE SUCCESS.Byline: KEVIN CONNELLY Kevin Connelly was born in Middlesbrough, England. He is an impressionist comedian, and after dinner speaker and is probably most famous for his role on the popular BBC television programme 'Dead Ringers'. Special to the Daily News SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, -- The events changed at Santa Clarita Aquatic Center, but many of the local names atop the podium remained the same during the third of five days of competition at the 2006 Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Swimming Junior Olympics. Six area swimmers added to previous victory totals Friday afternoon, including Valencia High freshman Bob Hwang of the Santa Clarita Valley-based Canyons Aquatics swim team. Hwang, who won two events Wednesday, took first in the boys' 13- to 14-year-old 100-meter butterfly (1 minute, 0.81 seconds) and 200 individual medley (2:14.00), winning both races by narrow margins. ``I don't come into races expecting to dominate,'' Hwang said. ``My philosophy is just to attack.'' Thousand Oaks junior Aislinn Smalling and Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks junior Annie Stefanec continued to attack in their events. Competing for the Thousand Oaks-based Class Aquatics swim team, Smalling's second victory of the Junior Olympics came with a dominating 4:27.08 clocking in the girls' 15-year-old and over 400 freestyle. Stefanec won her second event for the San Fernando Valley-based CCAT CCAT Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (Humboldt State University; Arcata, CA) CCAT Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope CCAT Canadian Cognitive Abilities Test CCAT Competition Commission Appeals Tribunal swim team with a time of 2:26.63 in the girls' 15-year-old and over 200 individual medleys. Other local standouts: Identical twins identical twins pl.n. Twins derived from the same fertilized ovum that at an early stage of development becomes separated into independently growing cell aggregations, giving rise to two individuals of the same sex, identical genetic makeup, and Allison and Adria Morales from Canyon Aquatics each won an event, bringing their combined total of Junior Olympics victories to six. Allison Morales, who won single events Wednesday and Thursday, took first place in the girls' 11- to 12-year old 400 freestyle with a 4:41.92 clocking. Adria Morales, winner of twoevents Wednesday, won the girls' 11- to 12-year-old 200IM with a time of 2:34.96. The area's other repeat winner was 12-year-old Young Tae Seo of the La Canada Flintridge-based Canada-Crescenta YMCA YMCA in full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. swim team. Seo notched his third victory in three days with a time of 29.80 in the boys' 11- to 12-year-old 50 butterfly. Other area swimmers to win events were Canyon Aquatics' Stephen Haw haw, common name for several plants, e.g., the hawthorn and the black haw (see honeysuckle). (boys' 11- to 12-year-old 400 freestyle) and Class Aquatics' Haley Preston (girls' 11- to 12-year-old 50 butterfly). kevin.connelly@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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