The BC women’s Track and Field team had a strong showing at the Southern California Championship Preliminaries meet in Riverside on May 3 and 4.
Sophomore Alicia Torres took second in the shot put with a distance of 42 feet, just two feet behind first, and will go on to qualify for the State Championship meet.
Torres also took fifth place in the discus throw with a distance of 121 feet.
Sophomore Natalie O’Dwyer placed third in the meet for the women’s 400-meter dash, with the time of 58:37.
Jessica Campbell, a freshman, took fifth in the women’s 800-meter run, coming in with a time of 2:20.38.
She was the only female freshman to place higher than tenth place at the meet.
The women took sixth in both the 4×100-meter and 4×400-meter races. They ran the 4×100-meter in 48:64 and the 4×400-meter in 4:00.10.
Jade Gridiron, a sophomore, took eighth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.34.
The men would have only one competitor rank in the top 10, freshman Juan Calderon. Calderon came in fourth in the men’s 800-meter run, with the time of 1:57.54.
The Southern California Championship Finals will be held on May 9 and 10, also in Riverside, while the State Championships will be held on May 16 and 17, at Mt. San Antonio College.
Swimming
The women’s swim team had nine swimmers chosen to represent BC at the Community College State Championships.
They were: Shelby Bayne, Heather Bryan, Ashley Foster, Clarissa Gardella, Elizabeth Hargis, Morgan Peters, Nancy Ramirez, Paige Richardson and Alexis Zimmerman.
The women finished in 10th place, out of the 35 schools in attendance, Diablo Valley College took first place at the meet.
Gardella was the top female swimmer, finishing eighth in both the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 54.27 and the 50-yard backstroke with a time of 28.33. In the 50-yard freestyle she finished sixth with a time of 24.64.
Zimmerman finished 13th in the 50-yard breaststroke with a time of 32.40 and 15th in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:09.31.
Her top finish was the 200-yard individual medley, where she finished 12th with a time of 2:15.15.
Bayne managed to place ninth in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.73.
The men’s swim team had seven swimmers chosen.
They were: Michael Fink, Andrew Hargis, Conner Hicks, Spencer Kerwin, Chance Marchini, Casey Moehnke and AJ Spiller.
The men finished in 14th place out of 30 schools.
The men’s top swimmer was Hargis, fresh off his record setting meet at the conference championships.
His top finish was second place in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing with a time of 4:31.35. Hargis also finished in fifth in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:40.54 and 11th in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 46.47.
Hargis had previously managed to set three BC records and one conference record in the 500-yard freestyle.
Kerwin managed to place 16th in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 55.04 and 14th in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:59.77.