Will Rogers Junior Lifeguards (l-r) Sammy Speiser, Nolan Wang and Brent Smith wear their gold medals after the Taplin Night Relays.
Photo courtesy of Melanie Morris
Representing the Will Rogers Junior Lifeguard Program, Nolan Wang, Brent Smith and Sammy Speiser won the swim-run-paddle-run event Saturday night at the Taplin Relays, defeating junior guards from 10 other Southland beaches.
Will Rogers Junior Lifeguards (l-r) Sammy Speiser, Nolan Wang and Brent Smith wear their gold medals after the Taplin Night Relays. Photo courtesy of Melanie Morris
Speiser, who won City championships in water polo and swimming in 2015-16 at Pali High, did the paddling while Smith, who runs cross country and track and also plays soccer for the Dolphins, did the running. Smith won the City frosh/soph 1600- and 3200-meter track titles as a ninth-grader in May. Wang, who handled the swiming portion, graduated from Paul Revere Middle School in the springand will be a freshman at Loyola High this fall.
On Sunday, Speiser swam the two-mile pier-to-pier race from Hermosa Beach to Manhattan Beach in 49 minutes, placing sixth in the 15-19 age category and 39th overall out of 1,500 particpants. He swam with his dad Robert, who finished in one hour, 11 minutes.
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