Some 21 swimmers from Livermore’s Tri Valley Aquatics team competed in the annual Junior Olympics held in San Jose from July 11-13, setting more than a dozen new team records and posting even more top-five finishes.
Roughly three-quarters of the Aquatics’ participants were Pleasanton residents.
The Tri Valley Aquatics relay teams finished in the top four in all of their events.
The quartet of Grant Yap, Patrick Ren, Cole Reznick, Wolfgang Lachance placed third in the 200 freestyle relay (with a time of 1:46.91), third in the 400 freestyle relay (3:56.96) and fourth in the 200 medley relay (2:03.04) in their 13-14 age group.
The Aquatics 15-18 age group relay team of Regis Lachance, Caleb Wagner, Thomas Gjerde and Audrik Antonio finished second in the 200 medley and fourth in the 200 freestyle.
The individual results yielded a range of new team records and high finishes.
Julian Wagner, 19, broke team records in seven events: 1500 freestyle (18:57), 800 freestyle (9:58.93), 200 backstroke (2:33.87), 200 individual medley (2:31.95), 400 freestyle (4:45.75), 200 breaststroke (2:56.14) and 400 IM (5:21.06).
Ryan Ridosko, 10, set three new team records while placing first in the 400 freestyle (5:08.70)
second in 200 freestyle (2:28.23) and third in 100 freestyle (1:10.09).
Katherine Tsui, 17, won the 100 breaststroke (1:18.62) and 200 breaststroke (2:51.64).
The team’s 50 backstroke record was broken by 12-year-old Caroline Gjerde (35.10).
Five team members qualified for their first time in their events to compete in the Far Western Championships held in Concord.
Sophia Krafcik, 14, earned a Far Westerns qualifying time in the 100 butterfly (1:10.25). Yap, 14, qualified to compete at Far Westerns in the 200 freestyle (2:09.56) and 400 backstroke (4:36.73).
Thomas Gjerde, 16, came in third place in the 100 butterfly in 1:01.12, which also qualifies him to compete in Concord.
Reznick, 13, swam to qualify in three of his events: 400 freestyle (4:35.09), 800 freestyle (9:32.22) and 100 butterfly (1:06.14). He also placed fourth in his age group in the 100 and 200 breaststroke.
Wolfgang Lachance, 14, earned three Far Western times: 50 freestyle (26.45), 100 freestyle (58.31) and 200 butterfly (2:31.86). He also came in third in the 50 freestyle, sixth in the 100 freestyle and eighth in 100 backstroke.
Regis Lachance, 16, finished in fifth place in his age group in the 50 freestyle. He also broke the team record in the 100 freestyle (57.50).
Milton Dumay, 18, came in fifth in the 400 IM. Stephanie Doi, 19, broke team records in the 200 IM (2:38.81) and 100 butterfly (1:09.42).
Pleasanton commission set to vote on major redevelopment project off Dublin Canyon RoadApril 21, 2026 4:30 pm