San Marcos boys and girls swimmers swept Pacifica Tuesday, the boys by a score of 136-33 and the girls by 119-34.
Boys
The Royals had “great leadership from our two seniors swimmers, Jaran Depew and Gavin Tallman,” Royals coach Peera Sukavivatanachai said.
Depew was on the winning 200 yard medley relay team that won in 1:46.52, with Ben Caputo, Pierce Rybnicek, and Nic Prentice.
Second place in that event was the Royals team of Tallman, Jael Sanchez, Franklin Jaramilla III, and Jacob Magid.
Individually, Depew won the 100 yard butterfly in 54.48, and the 100 yard breaststroke in 1:03.23, in CIF-SS D2 consideration times.
Tallman took the 200 yard freestyle in a CIF D2 consideration time of 1:56.73. He also won 100 yard backstroke, in a time of 58.58
Freshman Will Stuart had a debut-swim win taking the 100 freestyle, out-touching fellow teammate Nic Prentice by 0.2 of a second.
And freshman Ben Caputo had a debut-swim in taking the 200 IM.
Girls
“We had several individual great swims, and it was very encouraging to see our girls swim so well in our first meet of the year,” girls coach Chuckie Roth said.
Winning times included:
200 Free Sierra Tallman 1:56.73
200 IM Makenna Stretz 2:17.00
50 Free Elaia Hamilton 25.53
100 Butterfly 59.20
100 Freestlle Sophia Panossian 55.98
500 Freestyle 5:08.64
100 Backstroke Taylor Steelman 59.64
100 Breaststroke Lucy Haaland Ford 1:13.80
200 Medley Relay
Steelaman, Haaland Ford , Hamilton, Meyer 2:05.21
200 Free relay
King, Hamilton, Meyer, McEachen 1:47.44
Diving – Helena Manar , Kate Manar, and Bridget Cunnison led the Royals in Diving.
“We had a great day,” Roth said. “I love coaching this group. So much passion and energy, it is fun to be around.”