High school athletes from the CIF Southern Section will jump into the pool throughout the week at Riverside City College for the 2016 swim finals.
On the Division 2 girls side, Ayala’s Kenisha Liu and Redlands’ Melissa Pepper return with the hope of capping off their high school careers on top.
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The Redlands East Valley and Redlands High girls 200 yard medley relay teams finished 24th and 25th respectively during the inaugural CIF State Swim prelims.
Redlands East Valley boys 200 medley relay team took 11th in CIF State swim prelims. REV will swim in consolation finals. Damien was 20th and did not qualify.
Event 3 – Girls 200 Medley Relay
No. 21 seed Redlands
1) Melissa Pepper 2) Summer D’Arcy 3) Niki Proctor 4) Alex Zak 5) Victoria Benitez 6) Mia Ryan 7) Libby Pry
No. 22 seed Redlands East Valley
1) Emily Longfellow 2) Alexa Melara 3) Autumn D’Arcy 4) Emily Rigsby 5) Sidney McNeil 6) Erin Doolittle 7) Allison Wieseler
Event 4 – Boys 200 Medley Relay
No. 9 seed Redlands East Valley
1) Fernando Duenas 2) Jack Moyles 3) Benji Duenas 4) Kyle Acevedo 5) Reymond Munson 6) Christian Solis 7) Wade Allsup 8) Daniel Precie
No. 23 seed Damien
1) Steven Fleurant 2) Mac Quinn 3) Grant Farias 4) Richie Campbell 5) Diego Torres-Casso 6) Sean Murakoshi 7) Jakob Burris 8) Max Ries
Event 5 – Girls 200 Freestyle
No. 2 seed Ayala – Kenisha Liu
Event 6 – Boys 200 Free
No. 16 Chino Hills – Michael Tenney
Event 7 – Girls 200 IM
No. 13 seed Mikki Thompson
Event 8 – Boys 200 IM
No. 21 seed Redlands – Collin Green
Event 9 – Girls 50 Free
No. 15 seed Redlands – Melissa Pepper
Event 10 – Boys 50 Yard Free
No. 13 seed Damien – Richie Campbell
Event 11 – Girls 100 Butterfly
No. 23 seed Diamond Bar – Kathleen Gani
Event 12 – Boys 100 Butterfly
No. 18 seed Redlands East Valley – Fernando Duenas
Event 13 – Girls 100 Yard Freestyle
No. 1 seed Ayala – Kenisha Liu
Event 14 – Boys 100 Yard Free
N/A
Event 15 – Girls 500 Free
No. 8 seed Ayala – Mikki Thompson
No. 22 seed Redlands – Marleigh Aulis
Event 16 – Boys 500 Free
No. 10 seed Chino Hills – Michael Tenney
No. 17 seed Redlands – Collin Green
Event 17 – Girls 200 Free Relay
No. 7 seed Ayala
1) Megan Delgado 2) Shannon Steele 3) Mikki Thompson 4) Kenisha Liu 5) Emma Ahadoberry 6) Marissa Gaslan 7) Colleen Gamboa 8) Sawyer Belville
Event 19 – Girls 100 Back
N/A
Event 20 – Boys 100 Backstroke
No. 17 seed Redlands East Valley – Fernando Duenas
Event 21 – Girls 100 Breaststroke
No. 23 seed Redlands – Niki Proctor
Event 22 – Boys 100 Breaststroke
No. 18 seed Los Osos – Brian Whittington
No. 22 seed Redlands East Valley – Jack Moyles
Event 23 – Girls 400 Free Relay
No. 8 seed Ayala
1) Megan Delgado 2) Shannon Steele 3) Mikki Thompson 4) Kenisha Liu 5) Emma Ahadoberry 6) Marissa Gaslan 7) Colleen Gamboa 8) Sawyer Belville
No. 22 seed Redlands East Valley
1) Emily Longfellow 2) Mikayla Jean 3) Autumn D’Arcy 4) Emily Rigsby 5) Erin Doolittle 6) Sidney McNeil 7) Allison Wieseler
Event 24 – Boys 400 Yard Free
No. 17 Redlands
1) Tom Frye 2) Tyler Ocasio-Pare 3) Collin Green 4) Shea Macready 5) Matthew Keeling 6) Jack Topoleski 7) Nick Cortz 8) Matthew Ryan
The Girls 200 IM will feature a number of local coverage area swimmers.
Freshman Mikki Thompson of Ayala finished with the fastest time among area swimmers with a time of 2 minutes and 06.03 seconds, which lead to her being seeded third going into the championship race. 
Kathleen Gani of Diamond Bar is seeded No. 6 while Mikayla Jean of Redlands East Valley is seeded at No. 9. Gani had a time of 2:07.10 while Jean had a time of 2:08.28.
Emily Longfellow of REV finished third in the Girls 200 IM and is seeded at No. 10, placing her in the consolation finals. Longfellow missed a chance at the championship race by .02 after posting a time of 2:08.30.
Longfellow also competed in the 200 Medley Relay to meet the meet along with REV teammates, Alexa Melara, Autumn D’Arcy and Emily Rigsby. REV finished with a time of 1:48.29.
Redlands (Melissa Pepper, Summer D’Arcy, Niki Proctor and Alex Zak ) placed No. 6 going into the championship race with a time of 1:48.97.
Diamond Bar will also compete in the race as the No. 7 seed after a time of 1:49.37 in the prelims. Diamond Bar’s team consist of Gani, Jenna Lloyd, Kelly Cheng and Kelsey Lloyd.
For Ayala, Kenisha Liu qualified for the 100 yard free championship race following a prelim time of 51.21. Rigsby will compete in the consolation race.