The Lincoln Log

Stuffy and humid air inhabits St. Ignatius’ packed swimming pool. Bathing suit clad students make up the majority, and the dozens I see swimming in the pool look like fish. The ones that catch my eye, however, are in bright red and yellow swim caps.

Six San Francisco high schools competed in the All-City tournament on Saturday, April 14, 2007. Those schools were Lowell High School, Abraham Lincoln High School, Washington High School, Galileo High School, Balboa High School, and Wallenberg High School. The competition consisted of four teams: Boys Varsity, Girls Varsity, Boys Junior-varsity, and Girls Junior-varsity.

All swimmers who competed Saturday were first required to first qualify for the swim meet trials the Friday before the race. Every school competed in a series of races consisting of freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, and breaststroke techniques.

Lincoln High School placed second for Boys Varsity, second place for Girls Varsity, second place for Boys JV, and fourth place for Girls JV. Lowell dominated the charts with their impressive cumulative three digit scores of 150 for Boys Varsity, 130 for Girls Varsity, and 121 for Boys Junior-varsity, while Lincoln High School was a bit behind them with scores of 67, for Boys Varsity, 78 for Girls Varsity, 60 for Boys Junior-varsity, and 70 for Girls Junior-varsity. Lincoln High School was well represented by many amazing swimmers in every category. Despite the fact that Lincoln High School did not place first, a few self-motivated swimmers are already looking forward to a victorious win next year.

“I am very proud of my team. They all worked so hard and improved so much. It’s hard to let go of such cherished memories with such great friends!” sophomore Roselin Sretpisalsilip said. Sretpisalsilip has been on the Girls Varsity team for two years, and is also an All-City Champion for the 200 and 100 backstroke.

Freshman Cynthia Tran is also an All-City-Champion for the 100 fly and 500 freestyle on the Girls Varsity team, as well as senior Chris Woo for the 100 backstroke in the Boys Varsity team.

Other individual winners include sophomore Ariel Timmons, freshman Lina Nguyen, freshman Susanna Cheng, sophomore Shaun Tse, sophomore Kyle Sung, senior Greg Jew, junior Wicky Chow, freshman Chris Ng, freshman Evan Motoshige, junior Alesandro Sauseda, and senior Johnson Fong.