Hot in the pool

Her team records--for girls 11-12 years of age--came in the 50-meter backstroke, 100-meter backstroke, 100-meter breast stroke and 50-meter breast stroke.

Bergstrom, 13, of Snowden established new HRVST standards for boys 13-14 with PR-setting performances in the 800-meter freestyle and 200-meter butterfly. Moreover, he won two preliminaries (100, 200 butterfly), posted six PRs and placed in the top five in all six of his event finals.

His best finishes were seconds in the 800 and the 400 freestyle swims, and the 200 butterfly.

Matthew Bergstrom, 11, of Snowden swam in four event finals for HRVST's Osprey, finishing second once, fourth once and eighth twice.

Anna Anderson, 17, of Snowden competed in six events for HRVST and placed 15th in her one 15-and-over final, the 200 breast stroke.

As a team, HRVST finished the meet in 17th place.

Other news:

Rawding and Anderson have been chosen for the Oregon Zone Team that will take part in the Aug. 5-9 Western Zone Championships at Mt. Hood Community College, in Gresham.

"The last time a swimmer from the Hood River Valley Swim Team was at the Zone meet was in 2000 when Neticia Enesi and Oliver Burton attended, so it's pretty exciting for us," said Osprey Coach Shelly Rawding.

OREGON SWIMMING

2008 LONG COURSE

11 AND OVER CHAMPIONSHIPS

July 24-27

Eugene, Ore.

Distances in Meters

(-) = Improvement

Anna Anderson: (Girls 15-over Prelims) 200 individual medley (IM), 35th, 2:41.94; 50 freestyle, 31st, 30.65; 100 butterfly, 30th, 1:13.18; 100 freestyle, 39th, 1:08.53; 100 breast stroke, 18th, 1:25.18. (Finals) 200 breast stroke, 15th, 2:59.29 (-3.31).

Mariah Rawding: (Girls 12 Prelims) 50 butterfly, 9th, 34.48 (-1.16). (Finals) 50 freestyle, 7th, 30.67 (-0.81); 100 backstroke, 4th, 1:15.82 (-3.80) [New team age-group record; old record, 1:16.50, by Neticia Enesi, 2000]; 50 breast stroke, 3rd, 39.25 (-0.60) [New team age-group record; old record, 39.72, by Katie Haney, 1996]; 50 backstroke, 3rd, 34.77 (-1.74) [New team age-group record; old record, 36.51, by Rawding, 2008]; 100 breast stroke, 5th, 1:25.52 (-1.96) [New team age-group record; old record, not available, by Kylie Webb, 2008].

Matthew Bergstrom: (Boys 11 Prelims) 200 IM, 10th, 3:13.75; 50 freestyle, 9th, 34.95. (Finals) 100 butterfly, 4th, 1:21.75; 200 freestyle, 8th, 2:44.63; 100 freestyle, 8th, 1:17.01; 50 butterfly, 2nd, 35.26.

Scott Bergstrom: (Boys 13 Finals) 200 IM, 5th, 2:34.92 (-1.51); 800 freestyle, 2nd, 9:42.57 (-36.66) [New team age-group record; old record, 9:52.19, by Cody McMillan, 1999]; 100 butterfly, 3rd, 1:07.06 (-0.36); 400 freestyle, 2nd, 4:43.78 (-1.76); 200 freestyle, 5th, 2:15.39 (-1.71); 200 butterfly, 2nd, 2:25.82 (-2.98) [New team age-group record; old record, 2:28.80, by Bergstrom, 2008].