400 Free Relay (Coach Shelby Hernandez, Jacqui Johnson, Mary Myers, Coach Doug Finfrock, Citlali Salazar, Emily Martin)

Posted: Apr 24, 2017

Tigers Win OEC Championship, Finfrock Named OEC Coach of the Year

HUNTINGTON BEACH -- Winning four individual events and three relays, the Riverside City College (RCC) Tigers women's swimming and diving team won the Orange Empire Conference (OEC) Championships by 90 points than its closest competition this past weekend (April 20-22) at host Golden West College.

Riverside City, which accumulated 802.0 points, finished ahead of second-place Orange Coast (712.0) by 90.0 points. Saddleback was third (520.0 points), followed by host Golden West (404.0), Cypress (337.0), Fullerton (243.0) and Santa Ana (159.0).

Last Saturday (Apr. 22), Riverside won two individual events and one relay to secure the OEC crown.

RCC sophomore sophomore Mary Myers (Riverside - M.L. King HS '15) won the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:10.68. On Friday (Apr. 21), Myers set a RCC record in the 100-yard backstroke (:58.2).

RCC sophomore Emily Martin (Yucaipa - Yucaipa HS '15) won and set both RCC and OEC records in the 200 breaststroke with a 2:27.30 last Saturday (Apr. 21). On Friday (Apr. 21), Martin won the 100-yard breaststroke (1:07.10).

On Saturday (Apr. 22), the Tigers won the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:36.60) with Martin, sophomore Citlali Salazar (Eastvale - Eleanor Roosevelt HS '15), sophomore Jacqueline Johnson (Temescal Canyon HS '15) and Myers doing the honors.

In Friday's (Apr. 21) action, the Tigers won three of eight events. The RCC women (Martin, Kelly Perez (Riverside / John W. North HS), Johnson, Salazar) set a RCC record in the 800-yard freestyle relay (7:58.67), but finished second to Orange Coast (7:56.52).

Additionally, the Tigers also won the 200-yard freestyle relay and , the 200-yard medley relay.

Other sensational individual efforts, as reported by fourth-year RCC head women's swimming program coach Doug Finfrock, were turned in by frosh Serina Prado, who set a RCC record in the 200-yard butterfly (2:20.14) and Perez had great swims in the 200 IM and 400 IM as well as in the 1650 freestyle. Salazar was great in the 500, 200, and 100 freestyle events, while Johnson posted the second-fastest time in the 100 freestyle with a 54.02.

Finfrock was named OEC Coach of the Year.

The Tigers will be back in action in 2 weeks at the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) Championships.

Full results: https://www.swimphone.com/meets/event_order.cfm?smid=8548

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