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SWIMMING NOTEBOOK: CANYONS AQUATIC WEARS SCSAA CROWN.


Byline: Erik Boal Special to the Daily News

It might have been the home-pool advantage or maybe it was the team's overwhelming depth, but Canyons Aquatic Club continued its impressive summer long-course season this past weekend at the 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 AA Championships at the 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,  Aquatic Center.

Canyons dominated the women's competition, defeating the highly regarded Mission Viejo Nadadores The Mission Viejo Nadadores [1] [2] Mission Viejo, CA[3] is one of the largest swimming and diving clubs in the United States of America. The Nadadores were started in 1968 and have placed athletes on every Olympic Team since 1976.  2,849-2,046. The margin of victory also helped Canyons win the combined team title 5,106-4,320 over Mission Viejo Mission Vi·e·jo  

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, which held a 17-point advantage over Canyons in the men's competition during the four-day event.

Much of Canyons' success in the women's competition came in the relays. Relying on the performances of several Daily News All-Area swimmers, Canyons won all five women's open relays Typically refers to an e-mail server (SMTP server) that is configured to deliver any incoming mail to another mail server. In the past, open relays (open relay servers) were common, but today, most e-mail servers block all e-mail that does not originate with the customers of the service .

Canyon High's Roxy Camuso teamed with Saugus' Melissa Bowers Bowers is a surname, and may refer to
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, Valencia's Michelle Kroll and Quartz Hill's Sarah Colvin to win the open 200-meter freestyle relay in 1 minute, 55.99 seconds. Camuso, Colvin, Kroll and former Saugus standout Lauren Kristensen teamed to capture the 400 free relay (4:08.74), and Colvin and Kroll joined forces with Hart's Molly Rogers and recent Saugus graduate Lizette Patterson to win the 800 free relay (9:13.15).

Canyons completed the relay sweep, as Bowers, Camuso, Colvin and Kroll won the 200 medley med·ley  
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 relay (2:13.91) and Bowers, Colvin, Kroll and Patterson were victorious in the 400 medley relay (4:45.87).

In women's open individual competition, several Canyons' swimmers qualified for the Super Eight championship heat, with 13-year-old Jordan Danny winning the 100 breaststroke in 1:16.74 and Camuso capturing the 50 free (27.69). Camuso also took second in the 100 free (1:01.11) and eighth in the 100 backstroke (1:13.83).

Colvin and Kroll each qualified for the Super Eight finals in three events. Colvin placed fifth in the 100 butterfly (1:08.5), fourth in the 100 backstroke (1:10.21), and fifth in the 100 free (1:01.69). Kroll was third in the 200 backstroke (2:31.69), fifth in the 100 backstroke (1:11.43) and sixth in the 100 free (1:02.38).

Patterson took third in both the 200 breaststroke (2:47.61) and 200 individual medley (2:31.23), and Hart's Rachael Krager was second in the 200 butterfly (2:26.79).

In the boys' competition, Canyons didn't score as well in the relays as its female counterparts, as Mission Viejo and the Irvine Aquazots combined to win four of the five races. Canyons' lone victory came in the 400 medley relay, which included one of the few appearances at the meet from Saugus standout John Criste.

Along with Cleveland of Reseda's Michael Chiu, Saugus' Ryan Kristensen and Hart's Daniel Hofstedt, Criste helped lead Canyons to victory in 4:15.31, more than 12 seconds faster than second-place Palos Verdes Palos Verdes is often used to refer to a group of coastal cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles/South Bay area of California. This affluent bedroom community is known for its dramatic views, good schools [1] extensive horse trails [2]  Aquatics.

Erik Boal, (818) 713-3607

erik.boal(at)dailynews.com
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