Swimming and Diving Defeats Pleasant Grove

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The St. Francis swimming and diving team posted 118-50 victory over Pleasant Grove on Wednesday at Jesuit High School.

“Today was the first time having all of our USA swimmers from the area together and see what our relays look like stacked and loaded,” said Head Coach Richard Levin. “They are solid.”

The Troubadours opened the meet winning the 200-yard medley relay with sophomore Kendall Houck, sophomore Emma Hollenbach, junior Hannah Parulan and sophomore Chloe Beebout combining for a time of 1:55.33.

St. Francis finished second in the 200-yard free relay (Audrey Camarillo, Caroline Wilkins, Kaitlyn Back and Emma Peters) in 1:49.50, while the 400-yard free relay (Beebout, Houck, Parulan, Peters) touched second in 3:52.87.

Parulan finished second in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:02.74 in her top individual event. She also won the varsity 200-yard individual medley in 2:17.24.

“Hannah Parulan packs a punch,” said Levin. “She is a junior and did her best outside of a championship meet in the 100 back. It is good to see her step up.”

The meet was the first time the full team was in action after splitting for individual club meets.

“They are coming off sectionals in Texas and Junior Olympics and a taper meet in Clovis,” said Levin. “Now they are done with those and they can focus on high school swimming. They are going to try to repeat their section championship.”

The Troubadours won the Sac-Joaquin Section Frosh/Soph title last season and return a host of talented swimmers a year in a talented sophomore class for SF.

In other events, Hollenbach won the 100 breaststroke in 1:10.33.

“I felt pretty great and I was really relaxed,” said Hollenbach. “It was not my best time but I just wanted to go around a 1:10 which I did. I had a goal of going from the flags into the wall with my stroke count.”

Diver Callista Stanley won the individual dicing event to help in the win for the Troubies. Camarillo was the top SF finisher in the 50-yard free in 27.02 to place fourth. Freeworth was third in the 100-yard butterfly (1:03.31) and Beebout was third in the 100-yard free (56.94). Angel Altamirano was second in the 500 free (5:52.82).

St. Francis finished second at the Grizzly Invitational over the weekend, scoring 495.5 points to finish behind only host Granite Bay (507).

St. Francis improved to 3-0 in the Delta League with the anticipated meet with Davis next Wednesday.

“Our goal is always to beat them,” said Hollenabach. “For me with the breaststroke race, (Davis has) a swimmer I am trying to stay with. It will be a great goal for everyone to stay with them.”

Meet time is 4:00 p.m. on March 14 at Jesuit.

Varsity — St. Francis 118, Pleasant Grove 50

Frosh/Soph Meet — St. Francis 121, Pleasant Grove 13