


Blair’s Ella Lesnever finished her senior season in style by winning two titles and setting meet records in both events at the CIF Southern Section Division 4 swimming finals at Mt. San Antonio College.
Lesnever, a University of Wyming commit, finished a dominant career to earn her second consecutive San Gabriel Valley girls swimmer of the year award, and it was most deserving.
Lesnever had set her sights on breaking two meet records and she did just that in the two muscle events.
In the 50-yard freestyle, Lesnever touched home in a winning time of 22.92 seconds. Lesnever broke the record of 23.11, set by Mary Hanson of Ridgecrest Immanuel Christian in 2010.
Remarkably, it was Lesnever’s fourth straight CIF-SS title in the 50 free. After winning as a freshman in Division 4, she won the title in Division 3 her sophomore year and won back-to-back in Division 4 the past two years.
Breaking 23 seconds was something she had been chasing.
“That was the goal,” Lesnever said after the race. “That’s been the goal for so long and I’m glad it finally happened. It’s sort of relief and accomplishment. I’ve been training for it so hard, for so long, so it was nice to finally go under and see how my hard work came together.”
Lesnever broke her own Division 4 record in the 100 freestyle.
Lesnever breezed to the finish with a winning time of 49.83 to break her record of 50.25 set a year ago.
“This was pretty exciting, so fun,” Lesnever said of winning two titles and setting two meet records. “It was the goal.”
200 medley relay: Temple City (Brianna Lee, Ghrista Wangsir, Samantha Wong, Alexa Lee), 1:48.57
200 freestyle: Addie Gish (Flintridge Prep), 1:47.05; Mia Bugarin (La Canada), 1:49.49
200 individual medley: Natalie Walklett (Flintridge Prep), 2:01.03; Rosio Valencia (Muir), 2:11.73
50 freestyle: Ella Lesnever (Blair), 22.92
100 butterfly: Sophia Xu (Arcadia), 54.86
100 freestyle: Ella Lesnever (Blair), 49.83
500 freestyle: Addie Gish (Flintridge Prep), 4:50.54; Mia Bugarin (La Canada), 4:53.32
200 freestyle relay: La Canada (Meredith O’Grady, Lilli Perner, Natalee Yun, Mia Bugarin), 1:37.64
100 backstroke: Claire Huang (South Pasadena), 58.33
100 breaststroke:Natalie Walklett (Flintridge Prep), 1:02.17
400 freestyle relay: Flintridge Prep (Addie Gish, Megan Lee, Dylan Docter, Natalee Natalie Walklett), 3:30.09
1-meter diving: Jacqueline Chen (San Dimas), 537.90; Jiaqi Lu (Temple City), 519.20