The Palisades High boys and girls swim teams opened the season in fine form on February 28, easily outdistancing host Santa Monica in an intersectional meet. The Dolphins’ frosh/soph girls blanked SaMo 100-0, winning every place in every event, while the frosh/soph boys also posted a shut out, 96-0. PaliHi head coach Maggie Nance was equally pleased with the performance of her varsity teams. The Dolphin girls won 142-23 while the defending City champion boys looked the part, stroking to a 145-28 victory over the Vikings. Standout performances on varsity were turned in by freshman Kristen Fufii, who was first in the 50 Freestyle and Amanda Mohagen, who was second in the 100 Butterfly. Rachel Kent was runner-up in the 200 Freestyle while Cayley Cline won the 100 Butterfly in 1:08.41. Andrew Le won the junior varsity 50 Backstroke and Igor Bivol was second in the 100 Butterfly. Brian Johnson won the boys’ varsity 200 Individual Medley and 100 Backstroke, Gavin Jones swam third in the 100 Freestyle and second in the 100 Backstroke. Paris Hays was second in the 100 Freestyle while David Nonberg won the 50 Freestyle in 23.52 and also won the 100 Freestyle. For the girls, Chelsea Davidoff won the 200 Individual Medley and finished second in the 500 Freestyle. Patrice Dodd was first in the 100 Freestyle and Julie Wynn was second in both the 50 and 100 Freestyle events.
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