Walnut – Nathan Lee of the Oxford Academy landed on a dreaded number during the preliminaries of the CIF -SS Division 2 swimming championships.
In the 500 -yarn yards, the senior finished 10th, a shy place to qualify for the championship finals.
Lee bought himself major on Friday in the final at Mont Sac.
He captured the 200 freestyle in a better life time of 1 minute and 38.34 seconds. His arrival qualified him for the CIF state championships next week in Fresno.
Lee produced the only title of Orange County in the division and narrowly missed the All-America automatic standard of 1: 38.21.
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Nathan Lee of the Oxford Academy swims at the head during the boys 200 free during the swimming final of division 2 of the Southern section at MT. San Antonio College Mountie Aquatics Center in Walnut on Friday May 9, 2025. (Photo of Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin / Scng)
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Nathan Lee d’Oxford Academy swims to the head during the 200 m free boys during the swimming finals of division 2 of the Southern section at MT. San Antonio College Mountie Aquatics Center in Walnut on Friday May 9, 2025. (Photo of Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin / Scng)
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The swimmer to the University of Boston pushed so hard in the race, he could not fully complete his planned victory. After leaving the water, he fell back into the pool without the expected Smash.
“My friend told me to do it after winning but I was so tired, I abandoned halfway,” said Lee with a little laugh. “It was a victory and it was a pretty big drop. First drop in fact.”
“In my head, I was right (thinking) everything,” he added. “Sprint, sprint, sprint. Go as fast as possible. Oh my God, it was difficult.”
Lee divided the 100 in 47.44 and maintained slots of 25.40 and 25.50 to finish strong. The swimmer of Socal Club exceeded the finalist of the finalist of Kim d’El Toro (1: 40.54) of about two seconds.
Lee also won the Libre 500 consolation final in 4: 36.87, almost 4 1/2 seconds faster than its preliminary time on Wednesday.
“I was quite upset by this (10th place),” he said. “The (200 free) is my N ° 1 event at the moment, so get a victory in this kind of everything for everything.”
Nolan Weijland, from Crean Lutheran, who trains with Lee in Socal, presented his ascent in the final of the 500 free.
In the race next to Cerritos outside the Anthony Dornoff competition, Weijland came out quickly in order to get closer to the US member of the national junior team. Weijland also triggered his kick in the last two laps to finish second in a better 4: 31.15 for life.
Dornoff, a second year student, won in 4: 29.29.
Weijland achieved an automatic qualification time in the 500, an event that he does not consider his best. It is actually a breaststroke.
“(The 500) has never been my best event,” said Weijland. “This is probably my fifth, sixth, seventh best event. Now it’s probably my second best. ”
Weijland completed a double 500,500 Free-100 Freestroke by finishing fourth in the latter in a record of 56.86 of the season.
Huntington Beach’s Girls 200’s free relay found its own justification.
Before the final, the Oilers won a rare swimming against Roosevelt for the 18th and last place in the final.
The Huntington Beach team from Japy Finnerty, Calla Wieczorek, Morgan Franzia and Maya Tovar then put a place in the final to finish the 17th with a time of 1: 42.75.
In the preliminaries, Huntington Beach and Roosevelt have timed times of correspondence of 1: 43.79 equally for the 18th. During the first swimming, the schools again equaled, forcing the second swimming before the final on Friday.
“It’s a million,” said Tovar about double swimming in a relay.
“The pressure made us complete and do better,” added Finnerty, an elderly person.
In team points, the boys Ayala (201) and the girls of Santa Monica (236) claimed sectional titles.
Brea Olinda (138) ranked fifth to direct the OC boys while Oliso Niguel (136) took seventh to punctuate the county girls.
Kyle Franks helped feed the Wildcats by ranking second in the 100 free in 45.91. The junior, who led the Water-Polo team of the Brea Olinda boys in a title in the same swimming pool in the fall, splashed with excitement when he saw his time.
Devon Silberman d’Aliso Niguel touched second place in the 200 individual swimming (2: 04.98) and 500 free (4: 59.99).
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