Las Positas Swimmer Perez Del Rio Makes History With State Title

The Las Positas College swim and dive team has its first men’s state champion. His name is Esteban Perez Del Rio.

He rose to the challenge at the CCCAA State Championships (May 2-4) at De Anza College with a first-place finish in the men’s 100 freestyle in a school-record time of 45.01 seconds.

He won in spectacular fashion in a swim receiving strong consideration for performance of the meet.

Perez Del Rio, born in Puerto Rico and raised in Tracy, joins 2013 women’s state champion McKenna Stevulak as the college’s second state swim champion in the program’s nine-year history.

He is being recruited by Division I schools UCSB and UNLV. He also may have the opportunity to tryout for the Puerto Rico team in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Overall the Hawks men’s team finished sixth in the state out of 37 teams and the women placed seventh out of 33 teams.

“Both are outstanding accomplishments considering our team size was half that of the teams ahead and just behind us,” stated a proud Hawks coach Jason Craighead, the men’s and women’s team Coach of the Year in the Coast Conference. “We were small in numbers, but fast!”

Here are the Las Positas results and highlights from the State Meet:

RELAYS

Women’s 200 Medley Relay (Alexa Bui, Hannah Tsui, Negin Tehranian, Sydney Magann) – 3^rd, and New Team Record

Women’s 200 Free Relay (Brooke Christian, Negin Tehranian, Alexa Bui, Sydney Magann) – 5^th, and New Team Record

Women’s 400 Medley Relay (Alexa Bui, Hannah Tsui, Negin Tehranian, Sydney Magann) – 6^th, and New Team Record

Women’s 400 Free Relay (Negin Tehranian, Brooke Christian, Alexa Bui, Sydney Magann) – 12^th

Women’s 800 Free Relay (Negin Tehranian, Brooke Christian, Alexa Bui, Sydney Magann) – 13^th

Men’s 200 Medley Relay (Drake Southern, Niko Cory, Mat Kuan, Esteban Perez Del Rio) – 2^nd

Men’s 200 Free Relay (Drake Southern, Luke Severs, Niko Cory, Esteban Perez Del Rio) – 4t^h, and New Team Record & New Coast Conference Record!

Men’s 400 Medley Relay (Drake Southern, Niko Cory, Mat Kuan, Esteban Perez Del Rio) – 5^th, and New Team Record

Men’s 400 Free Relay (Drake Southern, Luke Severs, Niko Cory, Esteban Perez Del Rio) – 3^rd, and New Team Record

Men’s 800 Free Relay (Andrew Doss, Drake Southern, Luke Severs, Matt Kuan) – 15^th

INDIVIDUAL

Esteban Perez Del Rio: 100 Free 1^st, 50 Free – 5^th, 200 free – 5^th

Joey Argoncillo: 1 Meter Diving – 17^th

Niko Cory: 100 Breast – 3^rd

Andrew Doss: 500 free – 21^st, 1650 free – 14^th

Drake Southern: 100 Back – 6^th, 200 back – 10^th

Alexa Bui:100 back – 7^th, 200 Back – 17^th

Brooke Christian: 500 free – 8^th, 200 Free – 11^th, 1650 free – 6^th

Charlotte Goddard: 1 meter diving – 5^th, 3 meter diving – 3^rd

Negar Tehranian: 1 meter diving – 16^th

Sydney Magann: 50 free – 7^th, 100 free – 16^th

Hannah Tsui: 100 Breast – 8^th