Hometown girl brings home the gold
Soffia Metzler, of Pleasanton, and her partner, Hannah Douglass, of Tracy, brought home a gold medal from Poland. The USA Junior Olympic Sports Acrobatics team competed in the 2008 XII International Chmielewski Tournament, which had eight countries represented. Soffia and Hannah took the gold medal in the women’s age group 11-16 category. Of the eight U.S. groups that competed, Soffia and Hannah and a women’s trio from Maryland took gold medals.
Soffia is a sophomore at Foothill High School and has competed in sports acrobatics for five years. She and Hanna will try out again for the U.S. Junior Olympic team in July and, if they make it, would compete for the United States in the World Sports Acrobatic Championships in Glasgow, Scotland in September.
Soffia and her partner also recently won the California State championship in their category, which will take them to the Western Regional finals next month and then possibly to the U.S. Nationals, held in Des Moines, Iowa.
Amador swimming finishes fifth in league
The Amador Valley varsity swim team finished fifth in the EBAL league meet, but the future is bright as three freshman recorded top 10 finishes and two of them made All-League with a top three finish.
Leading the way for the freshmen, and the team, was Andrew Seitz who took first in the 200 free and missed first in the 500 by less than a second settling for silver. Kyle Surber finished fifth in the 50 free and sixth in the 100 free and earned All-League honors swimming anchor on the 200 free relay team. Seitz, along with juniors Jake Bahls and Scott Arellano were also on the third place 200 free relay team.
The third freshman was Tim McLauglin who took eighth in the 500 free and 9th in the 200 IM.
Not to be overlooked was Tyler Pullen who finished second in the diving competition. Pullen missed finishing first by the incredibly small margin of 0.65 points.
Arellano had a pair of narrow misses for individual All-League honors, finishing fourth in the 50 free by 0.09 and fourth in the 100 free by 37 seconds.
