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On Top: Santa Margarita Captures Swimming World Girls’ National High School Team Crown<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the first time, the Santa Margarita Catholic High School girls\u2019 swim team is Swimming World\u2019s overall high school national champion. The Eagles\u2019 program was previously the top independent school in 2017 and 2021, but this year, Santa Margarita finished 10.5 points ahead of Carmel, the public school national champion, in the mythical rankings to earn the crown.<\/em><\/p>\n

Santa Margarita Catholic High School (located in Rancho Santa Margarita in Southern California\u2014about five miles northeast of Mission Viejo) is led by co-head coaches and brothers, Ron and Rich Blanc. Ron works in admissions at the school, while Rich teaches economics and business management, and the two have been at the helm of the swimming program since 1996.<\/p>\n

During that time, Santa Margarita has won nine CIF (California) Southern Section titles, including eight straight since 2014 (not counting 2020, when most of the high school season was cancelled due to COVID-19). This year also saw the Eagles capture a fourth consecutive state championship.<\/p>\n

You can now add the school\u2019s first national championship to that list.<\/p>\n

\"SwimmingThe Blanc brothers have been eyeing the national title for years, and it meant a lot to them to secure this year\u2019s championship.
\n\u201cConsidering that we\u2019ve been coaching for 35 years and this is the first time we\u2019ve been able to win the Swimming World mythical national championship, it\u2019s pretty incredible,\u201d Ron said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that we never imagined we would do when we started this,\u201d Rich added. \u201cWhen we started out, we just wanted to be a good influence on kids and see how fast we could get our swimmers, but to be able to do this is a dream come true and something that we don\u2019t take for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n

TALENT RUNS DEEP<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pieces fell into place perfectly for Santa Margarita this year. Several swimmers relocated to the area during the COVID pandemic, and the girls\u2019 varsity team ended up with 29 swimmers, much higher than the usual 16. That included 10 freshmen who made varsity and six seniors who are joining Division I swim teams this fall. So the Blancs ended up with one of the deepest teams they had ever coached.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think once you have that depth, once you have that quality team, other kids just want to be a part of it because they know that if they swim with talented kids that have similar goals and values, it\u2019s going to push them to be better, too,\u201d Rich said. \u201cThe team just kind of pushed each other and just made each other better.\u201d<\/p>\n

California holds high school swimming in the spring, so Santa Margarita was getting their season underway in February when their closest competition, Carmel, was swimming at Indiana\u2019s state championship meet. The coaches brought up Carmel\u2019s performances with their swimmers to give them something to chase, and those end-of-season goals helped bring the team closer together.<\/p>\n

Early in the season, the coaches started to sense the special nature of their team in a relay-only meet, which began with a 400 yard individual medley relay, an event where all four girls swam a 100 IM.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrange County high school swimming (in Southern California) is very strong, but only a few teams had ever broken 4:00 in this relay, where basically the four girls average under 1:00,\u201d Ron said. \u201cAnd the girls went 3:47, and they utterly destroyed that time. This was the first week of the season. They weren\u2019t rested. They weren\u2019t tapered, and to know that they were this fast was a great (sign) for what was to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

CHAMPIONSHIP-LEVEL TIMES<\/strong><\/p>\n

And by the time May rolled around, Santa Margarita recorded championship-level times that vaulted the Eagles into the top spot.<\/p>\n

Leading the way was freshman Teagan O\u2019Dell, who was the top high school swimmer in the country in the 200 IM with a mark of 1:55.15, a mark already quick enough to score at the NCAA Championships. O\u2019Dell was also fourth nationally in the 100 backstroke (52.27).<\/p>\n

Senior Justina Kozan, an Olympic Trials finalist in 2021 and heading to the University of Southern California this fall, was third in the mythical rankings in the 200 freestyle (1:44.63) and seventh in the 100 butterfly (52.65), and sophomore Teia Salvino tied for 11th in the 50 free (22.58) and finished 14th in the 100 free (49.34). Junior Macky Hodges tied for ninth in the 100 free (49.04).<\/p>\n

The Eagles were especially strong in the relay events, with the team securing national second-place finishes in both the 200 medley relay (Hodges, O\u2019Dell, Kozan, senior Lindsay Ervin: 1:39.04, less than a half-second off the national independent school record) and 200 free relay (freshman Gracyn Aquino, Salvino, Ervin, Hodges: 1:32.12), while the 400 free relay team of Hodges, Salvino, O\u2019Dell and Kozan set an overall national high school record with a mark of 3:14.80, breaking the previous record set in 2015 by a Carmel squad that included future NCAA standouts Veronica Burchill, Claire Adams and Amy Bilquist.<\/p>\n

That foursome had already lowered their own independent school record in the relay at the CIF-SS Championships and in prelims at the state championships. \u201cIt was the girls who got together and said, \u2018We can totally do this. We just have to shave off just a little bit from each person.\u2019 They really attacked that race with gusto in the final,\u201d Ron said.<\/p>\n

When the swimmers returned to their hotel that evening after prelims, Rich remembered being struck by their attitude and intensity as they prepared for the record attempt the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually, we like to have a team dinner and then get the kids back to their rooms for finals the next day,\u201d Rich said. \u201cAll those girls were so focused. They were like, \u2018Can we go to bed early? We want to get a good night\u2019s rest for the next day.\u2019 Usually, you\u2019re checking curfew to make sure everyone is safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The moment when they broke the record, becoming the first high school team to swim under 3:15 and swimming a time not far off what it takes to score at the NCAA Championships? Surreal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember going to talk to the girls right afterward, and I told them, \u2018In the 50 or 60 years high school swimming has been going on in the United States, the four of you just did that race faster than any four girls ever,\u2019\u201d Rich said. \u201cI could see by the look on their faces that I don\u2019t think they really processed that, either. It was very surreal and very humbling, actually, to be able to do something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

TOTAL TEAM SUPPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n

That record-breaking performance was undoubtedly special, but one of the coaches\u2019 favorite parts of this championship season had nothing to do with performances or racing. It was seeing the entire team support each other and support the team\u2019s overall goals, even if some swimmers missed out on opportunities because of the team\u2019s size and depth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith high school swimming, it\u2019s much more of a team sport, and I think of the friendships that the girls make with each other is something that sets high school swimming apart,\u201d Rich said. \u201cAt the sectional meet, a lot of the kids that would have had a qualifying time but didn\u2019t get a chance to compete, they were there for us, and they were leading all the cheers. And in our local newspaper, the lead picture was not of any of the kids swimming in their races, but it was all the kids cheering from behind the blocks.\u201d<\/p>\n

NATIONWIDE RIVALRY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two months later, Ron went to watch some of his high school swimmers competing at junior nationals, which were held close by in Irvine, and he found that some of the Santa Margarita swimmers had already become friends with swimmers from Carmel.<\/p>\n

When the Carmel swimmers introduced themselves, he already knew their names because he had scouted the Carmel team over the internet, but he enjoyed seeing swimmers from the cross-country rivals getting to know each other in person. Several Santa Margarita swimmers have expressed interest in traveling to Indiana for a dual meet against Carmel, but the non-overlapping high school seasons would make that difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just fun to hear that they have the same interest in how our kids are doing and how our team is doing,\u201d Ron said. \u201cWe have a nationwide rivalry\u2014a good, friendly, respectful rivalry with another high school that is 2,000 miles away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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