With a bright sun, the EC swimming and diving team took their swimsuits and drove around two hours with traffic to riverside where they competed in the Chaffey Invitational last March 7-8, Coach Corey Stanbury said.

“The things we are trying to focus on right now, mostly is beginning to enter part of the season where the priority is building speed which requires very hard work, also to improve our turns and finishes,” Stanbury said.

In a ranking of 11 teams that competed through 40 events the EC women scores in eighth place and the men in a ranking of 10 teams that competed also in 40 events scored in sixth place, according to the 2014 Chaffey/ Riverside Invitational results.

“I though in overall we had a good performance. I was pretty happy with our overall meet. We had few simmers that swam very good, but not very many, so part of it is we still hard training,” Stanbury said.

Some of the best scores for the men team was Jonathan Diaz freshman that placed in second in the men’s free 500 yards and first place in men’s 400 yards; also the men had a good performance in the fifth place in 200 yard medley relay and 800 yard free relay they got the third place, according to the 2014 Chaffey/ Riverside Invitational results.

One of the man that participate in the relays was Patrick Fink, 19, sophomore and he said “I did pretty well individually I didn’t get best times in my events but for how we are in the season we are swimming very tired, so I was pretty happy with my times, as a team I thought everybody swam pretty well, we got some best times.”

In the other side the women also have some good scores; Taina Pugliese, freshman won the fisrt place in the 50 yard free and in the women’s 200 yard free relay they got the seventh place, according to 2014 Chaffey/ Riverside Invitational results.
“They were 12 or 13 teams there from all over Southern California; some of them are in our conference some are not; which is good it gave us a chance to swim against some other people that we don’t normally see, so that was good,” Stanbury said.

However the divers also have a good performance during their competitions; “I am satisfied but I feel like I couldn’t done better but I think this was like the best dive that I ever done. I know in the future I can do better so that’s what it made me not really happy about it,” Christy Villasor, 20, diver and sophomore said.

Villasor placed in fourth place in the 1 m diving and third place in the 3 m diving; in the men side Christopher Murphy, 20 sophomore placed in eighth in the men 1 m and sixth place in 3 m diving, according to 2014 Chaffey/ Riverside Invitational Results.

The next event for the men and women swimming and diving team will be host in the EC pool March 14 at 1230 p.m. and they go against to Rio Hondo and East L.A. College, according to the swimming and diving schedule.

“We are in a pretty good place. We just have to keep working really hard and keeps our self-point to the conference championship, except for the people are going to qualify to the state championship ahead time that’s what we need to keep focusing on in our conference championships,” Stanbury said.