Junior Guards Score at Nationals

Last Friday’s USLA National Junior Lifeguard Championships in Manhattan Beach afforded kids from the Will Rogers State Beach team many opportunities to show what they have learned this summer’and they did just that. In the Boys AA Division (ages 16-17), Benjamin Lewenstein took second place in the swim relay (five swimmers, boys and girls); third in Iron guard (Swim-Run-Paddle-Run); fourth in Rescue Race; fifth in Board Race; and seventh in Run-Swim-Run. Jimmy DeMayo took third in Distance Run, fifth in Iron Guard; sixth in Distance Swim and eighth in Run-Swim-Run. Tommy Knapp was ninth in Board Race and Christian Thomas was 10th in Board Race and fifth in Flags. In the AA Girls Will Rogers’ Ana Silka was fifth in Board Race and seventh in Distance Swim. Emily Newman was sixth in Board Race. The A Boys (ages 14-15) were led by Holden Miller, who was fifth in Flags, while the A Girls were paced by Mara Silka, who was sixth in Board Race and 10th in Run-Swim-Run and Tessa Chandler and Marja Ziata, who were fifth and seventh, respectively, in Distance Run. In Division C Boys, Johhny Hooper won the swim relay, was second in Rescue Relay and third in Paddle. For the girls, Tiana Marsh was second in Distance, sixth in Paddle, fifth in the Swim Relay and fourth in the Rescue Relay. Paul Revere student Tristan Marsh paced the B Boys, finishing second in the Distance Swim, Rescue Relay and Swim Relay while Wes Gallie placed fourth in Flags, third in Distance and sixth in Iron Guard and Swim Relay. Matthew Hammer was fifth in Distance Swim and fourth in Run-Swim-Run. For the girls, Natalie Stiles was fifth in the Distance Swim and second in the Rescue Relay and Swim Relay.