Diablo Valley College pulled a daily double by winning both the men’s and women’s 2002 State Championships at the COA California Community College Swimming and Diving Championships at Pasadena City College May 2-4.

Diablo Valley scored 458 team points in the men’s competition to outdistance Cuesta (371), and Golden West (314) for one title, and easily took the women’s crown with 439 points over Riverside (334) and Golden West (330.5).

DVC swimmer Mike Tuck won the high points award for men’s competition while teammate Chris Horner took Co-Outstanding Men’s Swimmer honors with Cuesta’s Tanner Sheldon. DVC women’s head coach Rick Millington was named the Women’s Coach of the Year at the competition.

Horner captured the men’s 100-yard freestyle title with a 45.01 seconds time on the third day of the state meet May 4. He also was won the 50-freestyle with a 20.62 second time. Tuck captured the 200-individual medley at 1:54.08, while taking second in the 200-backstroke at 1:51.45. Both Horner and Tuck were members of Diablo Valley’s winning 200 and 400 medley relay teams.

The only national record and state meet record broken at the event was by Golden West’s Elizabeth Klein, who was also named Outstanding Women’s Swimmer for the state meet as well as the high points award. Klein shattered the national record in the 50-yard backstroke with a time of 26.50 seconds on the second day of the meet. She also won both the 50 and 100-butterfly races with respective times of 25.83 and 57.73 seconds.

In the diving competition, West Valley’s Jessie Ray Newman won both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving titles, while LA Pierce’s Bryce Lerman performed the same double win in the men’s diving.

Released by Robert Lewis -Pasadena City College Sports Information Director