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Havasu’s Liska, Johnson shine at multi-state swim meet

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Today's News-Herald
Published Monday, July 5, 2010 10:15 PM MST

TEMPE — Two of the five Havasu Stingray Swim Team members making the trip to Tempe were tops in their classes at the Sparky Invitational Swim Meet June 26-27.

Both Tatum Liska, 8, and Alex Johnson, 12, took the long course high point trophies after facing off against swimmers from Arizona, Colorado, and Washington.

Liska won the girls 8-and-under Division after taking gold in the 50-meter breaststroke (53.57), 100M freestyle (1:28.84). 50M butterfly (43.69), and the 50M freestyle (38.89). She also earned a bronze in the 50M backstroke.

In the girls 11-12 Division, Johnson swam against a field of over 72 swimmers and captured gold medals in the 100M breaststroke (1:22.43), 100M butterfly (1:15.95) and 200M breaststroke (3:04.94). She earned silver in the 50M breaststroke, 200M IM and 50M freestyle and bronze in the 200M backstroke and 50M butterfly.

Havasu’s Carver leads Stingrays to 21 medals

 SCOTTSDALE — Facing top swimmers from multiple states and even other countries, eight members of the Havasu Stingrays qualified for the finals and four came home with 21 medals from the Cactus Classic Invitational Long Course meet last weekend.

Caden Carver, 12, swam to a second place overall high point finish in the boys 11-12 year old division. He captured first place finishes in the 100-meter freestyle in a time of 1:05.36, the 200M freestyle in 2:22.50 and the 400M freestyle in 5:00.61. Carver also swam to a third place finish in the 100M backstroke, fourth place finishes in the 50M freestyle, 50M backstroke, and the 200M IM, a seventh place finish in the 50M breaststroke, and an eighth place in the 50M butterfly.

Alex Johnson, 12, swam to first place finishes in the 50M breaststroke (37.31) and 100M breaststroke (1:23.19) in the 11-12 year old girls senior division. She also captured second place in the 200M breaststroke and 50M freestyle, a fourth place in the 200M IM, and fifth in the 400M IM.

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Stingrays open long course season with wins

Staff reports
Today's News-Herald

Published Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:53 PM MST

LAS VEGAS — Eleven members of the Havasu Stingray Swim Team members traveled to Southern Nevada to participate in the 2010 Bajio Invitational Swim Meet May 1-2 in the team's long course meters season opener.

The meet attracted over 460 swimmers from Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.

Swimming under California swimming guidelines, athletes are grouped into blue, red, and white divisions according to their times. Swimmers with the fastest times are in the blue division, and the top three swimmers earn medals. Swimmers in all divisions earn ribbons up to eighth place.

Earning top finishes in the blue division was Courtney Barker, 15, swimming to a second place finish in the women's open 200M backstroke and an eighth place in the 50M freestyle.

Swimming to multiple top finishes in the boys 11-12 year old division was Caden Carver, 12, capturing gold medals in the 50M and 100M backstroke, a silver medal in the 200M IM, bronze medals in the 50M and 100M freestyles, and a fourth place finish in the 200M freestyle. Carver also swam in the open 400M and 1500M freestyles where he earned a third and first place finish respectively in his age group.

Carver's swim in the 1500M freestyle (19:35.33) currently ranks him 15th in the nation.

Alex Johnson, 12, also swam to top finishes in the girls 11-12 year old blue division. She earned a first place finish in her age group in the women's open 200 breaststroke, silver medals in the 50M freestyle and 100M breaststroke, a bronze in the 50M breaststroke, 4th place finishes in the 50M and 100M butterfly's, and a fifth place finish in the 200M IM.

Johnson's time in the 100M breaststroke (1:23.64) currently ranks her at 20th in the nation.