GLENDALE — The following are odds and ends from the local sports scene.
LOCALS OUT IN FORCE
FOR JO CHAMPIONSHIPS
Former Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy swimmer Andrea Kropp continued her streak of summer success by winning a handful of events in the Girls’ 15 & Over Division at the Blue Junior Olympics Championships, which ran from July 29 through Sunday at Canyons Swim Club in Santa Clarita.
Kropp won the championship heats of the 100-meter breaststroke in 1 minute 15.49 seconds and the 200 and 400 individual medleys in 2:24.71 and 5:04.22, respectively, while also winning championships in three relay events with her club team, Swim Pasadena.
Kropp was part of the winning 800 freestyle relay (8:54.15) and the 200 (2:05.42) and 400 medley (4:30.77) relay teams. She also placed fourth in the championship heat of the 100 butterfly in 1:06.57.
Other past and present Tologs swimmers also competed in 15 & Over events, including 2009 graduate Madeline Talt, senior Briana Swinney and sophomore Emily Carideo.
Talt of Swim Pasadena was third in the 800 freestyle in 9:22.49 and fourth in the 1,500 freestyle in 18:01.17, while also winning the consolation heat of the 400 freestyle in 4:36.28 and placing fourth in the consolation heat of the 400 individual medley. Carideo, also of Swim Pasadena, was fourth in the championship heats of the 400 freestyle in 4:36.92 and the 400 individual medley in 5:18.23 and fifth in the championship heat of the 200 butterfly in 2:27.79. She also was seventh in the consolation heat of the 200 freestyle in 2:13.44.
Swinney, who represented Rose Bowl Aquatics, came in fourth in the championship heat of the 100 backstroke in 1:08.28 and swam in consolation finals of the 50 (third, 28.39) and 100 freestyle (seventh, 1:02.11) and 200 backstroke (third, 2:32.92).
Glendale High senior Katalina Sher competed in a pair of consolation finals for Rose Bowl Aquatics, placing fourth in the 200 butterfly in 2:32.85 and sixth in the 100 butterfly in 1:05.58.
Sher and Swinney comprised half of Rose Bowl Aquatics’ runner-up 200 (1:53.56) and 400 freestyle (4:05.53) relay teams.
On the boys’ side, Crescenta Valley High junior Andrew De Jong of Swim Pasadena finished ninth in the 800 freestyle in 9:06.86 and second in the consolation heat of the 200 butterfly in 2:17.39.
Other locals who participated in preliminary heats were Sacred Heart senior Christina Brandt and Crescenta Valley graduate Michelle Du and junior Jay Hee An.
