Girls Swim Del Rio League Finals

This year's Del Rio League Finals was adjusted for COVID protocols. Instead of swimming at Rio Hondo College, Whittier HS served as our meet location. Additionally, the prelims/finals format was scrapped for a single day - finals championship.

For the uninitiated, girls usually swim their events to determine which twelve swimmers will return at the end of the week for a boys/girls finals. But in this format, everyone gets this one chance to swim, and after we sort out the times, top to bottom, our top 12 swimmers will earn points to determine the team scores, but only our top 6 swimmers are awarded medals. As a veteran of the prelims/finals format, I can tell you that swimming next to someone else with a very similar time really gets the adrenaline pumping. The mind games that you play on yourself between the meets only adds to the drama.  And, it gives coaches a chance to talk strategy for the long distance events after watching the competition qualify. So this year's COVID friendly meet was an interesting change from the norm.

Here are the full results from today's meet:

• 200 Medley Relay (Lorelei Rojo, Angie Orta, Melissa Hernandez, Adriana Lopez) - 4th place

• 200 Freestyle - Arianna Garcia 9th place

• 200 IM - Ariana Meza 10th place

• 50 Freestyle - Melissa Hernandez 9th place / Adriana Lopez 11th place / Carolina Moore 12th place

• 100 Butterfly - Lorelei Rojo 🥈2nd place🥈 New #1 ERHS record/ Carolina Moore 8th place / Ariana Meza 9th place

• 100 Freestyle - Melissa Hernandez 10th place / Ivy Cervantes 12th place / Angie Orta 13th place

• 500 Freestyle - Arianna Garcia 8th place

• 200 Freestyle Relay (Ivy Cervantes, Carolina Moore, Estrella Cervantes, Adriana Lopez) - 4th place

• 100 Backstroke - Lorelei Rojo 🥇1st place🥇  New #1 ERHS record/ Ivy Cervantes 8th place

• 100 Breaststroke - Adriana Lopez 5th place / Angie Orta 6th place / Estrella Cervantes - 8th place

• 400 Freestyle Relay - (Lorelei Rojo, Ivy Cervantes, Angie Orta, Melissa Hernandez) - 4th place New #5 ERHS record

The boys' DRL Finals will take place on Friday.