By Kyra Young
The women’s swim team made history for City College this May, diving across the spring season’s finish line at the 3C2A’s California Community College 76th annual Swimming and Diving State Championship meet.
From May 1–3, Santa Rosa Junior College hosted swimmers from 33 swimming teams across California. This year, City College sent five of its own to Quinn Aquatics Complex to represent the Rams: sophomores Remy Dizon, Lian Mar, Serawit Ezra and Sophia Tran, and freshman Samantha Ng.
Across eight different events, the Rams swam away from the weekend ranked No. 13 in the state – only a point away from Las Positas College at No. 12.
“Our swimmers did an amazing job at State,” said Head Coach Phong Pham. “This was our second-best state team placing in City College’s swimming history.”
The team of Dizon, Tran, Mar and Ng placed sixth for the 200 medley relay at 1:52.91 – the highest placing by a City College swimming relay team in history.
The 400 medley relay team, composed of Ezra, Tran, Mar and Ng, finished seventh out of 16 teams at 4:08.62. The same crew also competed in the 400 free relay and placed 15th out of 16 teams at 3:49.59.
Tran finished the weekend with personal bests in each of her races – the 200 IM, the 100 breaststroke and the 200 breaststroke – and placed in the top 10 for each race.
Mar swam in the 100 fly and the 100 IM, placing eighth and 15th, respectively.