The Bear Cubs are off to a hot start completing the first half of their season with a commanding win at the statewide Cuesta College Invitational last weekend. This was SRJC's mid-season peak meet and the team posted almost 90% personal bests in all of their events.
Event winners included: Hailey Vance in the 200 Back, Taylor Sargis in the 200 IM, and Mary Lane in the 200 Fly in which she set a new school record with her time of 2:10.74. The Cubs also won the 800 Free and 400 Medley relays and finished a close second behind Orange Coast in both the 200 Free, 400 Free and 200 Medley relays as well. The SRJC women posted state qualifying times in all five of the relays as well. Other impressive, top 8 performances came from:
- Reilly Clarkson, 1650 Free (6th), 400 IM (3rd), 500 Free (3rd)
- Molly Davis, 1650 Free (7th), 200 Back (7th), 500 Free (6th)
- Mariah Wong, 100 Free (4th), 200 Free (4th), 50 Free (2nd)
- Alexandra Langley, 200 Breast (3rd), 50 Free (5th)
- Mary Lane, 400 IM (2nd), 100 Fly (7th)
- Hailey Vance, 100 Back (2nd)
- Mary Khattar, 200 Free (8th), 50 Free (4th)
- Annika Erickson, 100 Fly (3rd)
- Taylor Sargis, 100 Fly (4th)
- Lizzie Walls, 1M Diving (6th), 3M Diving (7th)
The Cubs are back home training hard in the back half of the season and will compete in the Big 8 Invitational at American River College this weekend, Friday, March 16th at 10am.
CUESTA INVITATIONAL FINAL RESULTS
Final Team Scores (top 10 only): 1. Santa Rosa 564 2. Orange Coast 445 3. Delta 423 4. Sierra 400 5. Cuesta 387 6. San Francisco City 286 7. American River 212 8. Bakersfield 170 9. West Valley 155 10. Sac City 152
SRJC Top Event Finishers: 1650 Free-6th, Reilly Clarkson, 19:06.34; 200 Free Relay-2nd, Hailey Vance, Mary Lane, Mary Chatter, Mariah Wong, 1:40.58; 200 Back-1st, Vance, 2:07.01; 100 Free-4th, Wong, 54.78; 200 Breast-3rd, Alex Langley, 2:37.77; 200 Fly-1st, Lane, 2:10.74; 200 IM-1st, Taylor Sargis, 2:10.62; 800 Free Relay-1st, Vance, Clarkson, Sargis, Lane, 8:04.38; 3M Diving-7th, Lizzie Walls; 1M Diving-6th, Walls; 200 Medley Relay-2nd, Vance, Sargis, Annika Erickson, Wong, 1:49.65; 400 IM-2nd, Lane, 4:49.00; 100 Back-2nd, Vance, 59.86; 200 Free-4th, Wong, 2:03.56; 100 Fly-3rd, Erickson, 59.79; 400 Free Relay-2nd, Sargis, Lane, Chatter, Wong, 3:45.18; 100 Breast-1st, Sargis, 1:05.05; 500 Free-3rd, Clarkson, 5:32.46; 50 Free-2nd, Wong, 25.31; 400 Medley-1st, Vance, Sargis, Lane, Wong, 4:03.77