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JV swimmers join in Warriors' win over White Tigers

Joe Naiman

Village News Reporter

The Escondido Charter girls swim team had only eight members when the White Tigers traveled to Fallbrook High School for a March 18 meet, so Fallbrook coach Sean Redmond utilized junior varsity as well as varsity swimmers that day.

“Since they did not have that many swimmers we did not do JV at all, so we moved all the JV swimmers up and let them do varsity,” Redmond said.

“It gave them an opportunity to race,” Redmond said. “It allowed some of them to try an event they had never tried before, so I thought that was good.”

Escondido Charter swimmers took first place in three of the 11 events. Position points gave Fallbrook a 121-32 victory.

A school is allowed to enter up to three swimmers in each of the eight individual events. Up to three relay teams from each school can compete in each of the three relay races, but only two quartets from each side are scored. Fallbrook took both first and second in all three of the relay events.

The 200-yard medley relay was won by junior Alexis Fieri, freshman Olivia Schiller, sophomore Tatum Brown, and sophomore Jasmine Hernandez in 2:29.14 while junior Victoria McBride, junior Elle Connelly, sophomore Fiona Wells, and sophomore Kasey Sanchez finished in 2:33.28. Schiller, Fieri, Brown, and senior Grace Goode won the 200-yard freestyle relay in 2:00.97 while junior Maya Papoulias, Hernandez, sophomore Kela Kendall, and sophomore Marissa Pearce took 2:08.85.

Kendall, McBride, Pearce, and Brown had the winning time of 4:30.95 in the 400-yard freestyle relay which concluded the meet. The “sisters team” of junior Katja Young, Maya Papoulias, freshman Liesel Young, and sophomore Ava Papoulias had a time of 4:34.50. “That was kind of fun,” Redmond said of utilizing two pairs of sisters for a relay team.

In all five of the individual events Fallbrook won, the Warriors swept the top three scoring positions. Ava Papoulias won the 200-yard freestyle in 2:14.23, which is a consideration qualifying time for the CIF meet, while junior Arden Baur completed her laps in 2:25.34 and Schiller touched her final wall 2:40.62 after the starter’s gun was fired. Kendall won the 200-yard individual medley in 2:37:03 with Goode taking 2:44.23 and Maya Papoulias posting a time of 2:49.46.

Pearce became the first 100-yard butterfly finisher 1:13.87 after the start of the race while Brown had a 1:21.30 performance and freshman Olivia Searle obtained third-place team points with a time of 1:23.27. Pearce won the 500-yard freestyle in 6:24.51 with Goode finishing in 6:25.89 and Katja Young taking 7:13.13. Schiller needed 1:23.15 to win the 100-yard backstroke with Liesel Young finishing in 1:25.48 and Baur concluding her race 1:28.07 after the start.

“It was a fun meet,” Redmond said.

 

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