3C2A Swim/Dive Championships, Day 2: Five More State Meet Records Fall; Mt. SAC Women, ARC Men In Front

Friday's Complete Results l Photos

SANTA ROSA - The second day of the 3C2A State Swimming and Diving Championships featured five more meet records shattered, including two more involving American River College phenom Cayden Pitzer as he has helped the Beavers take a slim lead in the men's team standings on Friday.

Meanwhile, Mt. San Antonio tops the women's standings despite three records set by other schools as the Santa Rosa Junior College pool has already produced nine state meet records.

Pitzer, who set the 200-yard individual medley mark and was on the team's 400 medley relay records on Thursday, teamed up with Josh Branson, David Tsypan and Gar Long to set a new standard in winning the 200 medley relay in 1:28.86. Pitzer then put up a monster performance in breaking an 11-year-old record in the 100 breaststroke at 52.98.

American River also got two event wins by Tsypan, who won both the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. 

On the women's side, Santa Barbara City's Lily Carrick sets a new mark in the 400 IM at 4:27 flat, needing all of it to beat Allan Hancock's Noemi Bravo-Guzman's 4:27.47. American River's Caitlin Wham captures the 100 butterfly state record in 54.77 while LA Valley's Ciera Center shatters the 3-meter diving board points record for her second title of the meet. 

Mt. SAC won the 200 medley relay to highlight its 38-point lead over SBCC, 305-267. American River is currently in third with 214.

On the men's side, Sierra won the 800 freestyle relay and continues to put pressure on ARC, trailing the Beavers by just four points, 307-303, in the hotly contested standings. Mt. SAC is third with 247.

The state meet concludes Saturday as the two team champions from each gender are crowned as well as the top individual award winners. 

Team Standings

WOMEN-1. Mt. San Antonio 305, 2. Santa Barbara 267, 3. American River 214, 4. Diablo Valley 204, 5. Sierra 186, 6. Orange Coast 181, 7. Santa Rosa 177, 8. San Joaquin Delta 130, 9. Long Beach City 126, 10. San Diego Mesa 109.

MEN-1. American River 307, 2. Sierra 303, 3. Mt. San Antonio 247, 4. Orange Coast 244, 5. Riverside City 222, 6. Cuesta 174, 7. Diablo Valley 157, 8. Bakersfield 154, 9. Golden West 150, Ohlone 101.

Event-by-Event capsules follow:

Friday, May 2
Event 13-W-200 Medley Relay: Champion-Mt. San Antonio, 1:48.11 (Paige Fast, Spencer Damaske, Elleanna Ramos, Carolyn Kao), 2. San Joaquin Delta, 1:49.83, 3. Santa Barbara, 1:49.87. Mt. SAC holds to form as the top seed and takes the gold in the day 2's opening event. The final results were not officially reported until much later in the evening as the event was under review. The top three places did not change. 
Event 14-M-200 Medley Relay: STATE MEET RECORD-Champion-American River (Josh Branson, Cayden Pitzer, David Tsypan, Gar Long), 1:28.86, 2. Riverside 1:29.50, 3. Cuesta 1:31.86. An amazing race has Branson opening backstroke with a 22.88 split, Pitzer had an impressive 23.89 breaststroke, and Long finished with a 20.33 freestyle that shatters Orange Coast's 2023 record of 1:29.77. Incredibly, RCC's Yousef Nahali closed with a 19.79 leg as the Tigers also broke the record by .27, but not enough to overtake ARC. 
Event 15-W-400 Individual Medley: STATE MEET RECORD: Champion-Lily Carrick, Santa Barbara, 4:27.00, 2. Noemi Bravo-Guzman, Allan Hancock, 4:27.47, 3. Sydney Fortune, San Diego Mesa, 4:35.25. Carrick breaks her own state meet record by 2.59 seconds, but she had to go all out in the final freestyle leg to edge out Bravo-Guzman, who hit the wall just .47 behind, also breaking last year's record meet record for her second straight silver medal in the event. It was Carrick's last 50 of 28.95 that gave her just enough breathing room for the record and the victory over Bravo-Guzman's 29.22.
Event 16-M-400 Individual Medley: Champion-Jake Kiss, Golden West, 3:57.68, 2. Kevin Li, Orange Coast, 4:03.95, 3. Gavin Roberts, Mt. San Antonio, 4:06.04. Kiss held to his state-leading form in the event and ran way with the gold by more than six seconds, beating his regular season top mark also by almost five seconds. 
Event 17-W-100 Butterly: STATE MEET RECORD: Champion-Caitlin Wham, American River, 54.77, 2. Elleanna Ramos, Mt. San Antonio, 57.46, 3. Gigi Zuniga, Diablo Valley, 58.48. Wham bam as Caitlin finishes strong to break the record of 54.82 set by Palomar's Emma Hart in 2023. Wham opened with a 25.64 split. Ramos is the silver medalist for the second time.
Event 18-M-100 Butterfly: Champion-David Tsypan, American River, 48.12, 2. Zeke Serrano, Riverside, 48.56, 3. Kaua Moto, Orange Coast, 48.72. After Serrano opened with a 22.23 for lead at 50, Tsypan made up the ground in the last 50 as he scores the fly victory. Last year's state champ Genoa Nixon of Sierra actually beat his '24 winning time but settled for fifth at 49.09.
Event 19-W-200 Freestyle: Champion-Maddie Myers, Santa Barbara, 1:53.72, 2. Carolyn Kao, Mt. San Antonio, 1:54.63, 3. Sofia Paez, Santa Barbara, 1:57.07. Myers shaves off .18 from her silver finish of a year ago to capture the eent victory.
Event 20-M-200 Freestyle: Champion-Grant Huston, Cuesta, 1:37.69, 2. Troy Quintana, Sierra, 1:39.29, 3. Cody Hart, Bakersfield, 1:39.82. Huston opened with a 22.75 split and powered his way to the gold in defeating last year's champion Quintana and last year's silver medalist Hart. 
Event 21-W-100 Breaststroke: Champion-Iyanah Samayoa, El Camino, 1:03.41, 2. Joyce Lin, De Anza, 1:04.80, 3. Madeleine West, Santa Rosa, 1:06.53. Samayoa is a repeat champion in the event after West opened with a 29.80 for a slight lead at the halfway mark. Samayoa flew away from the field over the final 50 in 33.41, a full second faster than Lin who took the silver. Samayoa beats her time from last year by .68.
Event 22-M-100 Breaststroke: STATE MEET RECORD: Champion-Cayden Pitzer, American River, 52.98, 2. Jared Ladinez, Riverside, 55.63, 3. Michael Petersen, Pasadena City, 55.74. Pitzer's motored his way to more history in a dominating display to win the event as he shatters Santa Monica's Jia Ng's mark of 53.80 set in 2014.
Event 23-W-100 Backstroke: Champion-Joyce Lin, De Anza, 57.02, 2. Mia Verwoest, American River, 57.95, Olivia Badaracco, Ventura, 58.23. Lin's second 50 was decisive as she pulled away from the field to win by .93. Verwoest settles for second place for the second year in a row. 
Event 24-M-100 Backstroke: Champion-David Tsypan, American River, 49.17, 2. Jaiden Monroe, Ventura, 49.72. 3. John Branson, American River, 50.14. Monroe led after the first 50, but Tyspan kicked it into high gear as he motored in 24.86 to win the title. 
Event 25-W-800 Freestyle Relay: Champion-American River (Audrey Ng, Sara Ashby, Mia Verwoest, Caitlin Wham), 7:54.57, 2. Santa Barbara 7:59.96, 3. Sierra 8:01.09. ARC has been impressive over the first two days and eclipsed the 8-minute mark easily to win the long relay thanks in part of Wham at anchor. SBCC also finished strong to get in under eight and take the silver. 
Event 26-M-800 Freestyle Relay: Champion-Sierra, 6:44.70 (Brock Sippola, Rhett Wildenradt, Tyler Natrass, Troy Quintana), 2. Bakersfield 6:53.16, 3. Orange Coast, 6:55.51. The Wolverines are repeat champions in the heavy duty, long relay it won by 8.5 seconds over the second-place Renegades. 
Event 27-W-3 Meter Diving: STATE MEET RECORD-Champion-Ciera Center, LA Valley, 287.15, 2. Sarah Dorn, Las Positas, 241.65, 3. Olivia Svuba, Marin, 226.90. Center wins the event by a whopping 46-plus points, sweeps the two diving titles, and sets a new standard in both the low and high boarsd by breaking American River's Amy Crane's previous high mark of 266.30 points set in 2019.
Event 28-M-1 Meter Diving: Champion-Ben Lentz, Marin, 310.65, 2. Dylan McQuade, San Diego Mesa, 262.75, 3. Niccolo Scornaienghi, Cypress, 260.40. Lentz also becomes a double champion with his impressive win in the low board. His point total was just 6.90 off the state record held by Sierra's Brandon Cox of 317.55 in 2014. 

Release by Robert Lewis, 3C2A State Swim Writer