High school swimming: What to watch for during this week's district meet
Next year will have a much different looking district swim meet.
The University Interscholastic League added a third classification in swimming that will go into effect in the 2022-23 school year.
Currently, any school that competes in swimming that is Class 5A or smaller is lumped into Class 5A.
District 30-5A not only consists of seven Class 5A schools (five CCISD, Gregory-Portland and Flour Bluff), but Class 4A schools Tuloso-Midway, Alice, Calallen and Miller and even Class 3A schools London and San Diego.
Next January those schools will be split as Class 4A is introduced.
T-M has been a boys juggernaut in the last few years at the 5A level and Calallen also has a strong tradition in the pool. Starting next school year smaller schools will also have new opportunities to reach regionals and beyond.
The pending split makes this year's District 30-5A meet more intriguing before some of the top challengers go their separate ways, but it could also pave the way for other Class 5A schools in the region to get lumped in with Corpus Christi-area schools in realignment.
Flour Bluff, which has captured the last 14 consecutive district titles, will look to maintain its stranglehold on the girls team title, while the Hornet boys try to wrestle the boys title from Tuloso-Midway, which has claimed the championship the last two seasons.
Here are some swimmers to watch at this week's District 30-5A Meet:
Girls
Isabel Garcia, sr., Tuloso-Midway, 200 individual medley, 100 backstroke
Kylee Hutchinson, sr., Flour Bluff, 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle
Patience Orms, jr., Flour Bluff, 200 individual medley, 100 breaststroke
Jennifer Pena, jr. Flour Bluff, 100 butterfly, 100 backstroke
Jenny Pickens, fr., Calallen, 200 freestyle, 500 freestyle
Boys
Cameron Ainsworth, sr., Flour Bluff, 200 freestyle, 100 butterfly
Tomas Betancour, jr., Tuloso-Midway, 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly
Alex Craig, so., Tuloso-Midway, 200 individual medley, 100 breaststroke
Dabeluchi Isiofia, so., Veterans Memorial, 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle
Luca Nisimblatt, sr., Tuloso-Midway, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke
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