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Arizona places 37 swimmers on NISCA All-America lists

June 28, 2012 by MaxPreps, AZPreps365


With the U.S. Olympic swimming trials reaching a fevered pitch in Omaha this week, the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association recently released its list of high school All-Americans.

The lists compile the Top 100 performances in each event during the recently completed school year. Arizona ranked 23rd overall nationally in the number of athletes, while California came in at No. 1 with 750 honorees.

Led by Payton Sorenson of Mountain View (Mesa) and Maggie McCord of Canyon del Oro (Tucson), Arizona had 25 boys All-Americans and 12 girls honorees, respectively.

Here is a list of the events that included Arizona athletes (with overall ranking and time):

Boys
200 medley relay
Sorenson, Derek Marske, Edgar Febres & Derek Buckley, Mountain View (27th, 1 minute, 33.75 seconds); Michael Nelson, Timothy Frakes, Connor Shores & Theodore Decker, Brophy College Prep (Phoenix) (92nd, 1:35.46)

200 freestyle
Chris Webb, Brophy College Prep (49th, 1:39.60)

500 freestyle
Webb (28th, 4:28.40)

200 freestyle relay
Sorenson, Buckley, Marske & Febres (9th, 1:23.71)

50 freestyle
Sorenson (9th, 20.42); Gabriel Espinosa-Novoa, Brophy College Prep (60th, 20.88); Buckley (98th, 21.03)

100 backstroke
Alex Schultz, Gilbert (85th, 50.81)

Diving
Nathaniel Belch, Catalina Foothills (Tucson)

100 breaststroke
Nelson (43rd, 56.73); Brandon Young, Douglas (90th, 57.49)

Girls
200 medley relay
Hayden Walker, Christina Valenzuela, Talie Anchustegui & Madeline Wells, Xavier College Prep (Phoenix) (44th, 1:46.03)

100 freestyle
McCord (76th, 51.17)

500 freestyle
Alexandra Aitchison, Chaparral (Scottsdale) (76th, 4:54.73)

50 freestyle
McCord (14th, 23.09)

100 breaststroke
Sara Borendame, Ironwood Ridge (Tucson) (40th, 1:03.67)

400 freestyle relay
Anchustegui, Kathleen Mulligan, Walker & Alisha Bender, Xavier College Prep (88th, 3:31.47)