Southern Section 4-A Swimming : Mission Viejo Wins Titles

Mission Viejo High School’s boys’ swimming team, led by record-setting Dan Jorgenson, splashed to its 11th straight Southern Section 4-A championship Friday night at East Los Angeles College, piling up 323 points to runner-up Capistrano Valley’s 224 points.

And Mission Viejo’s girls, paced by freshman Kim Brown, won their 10th straight Southern Section title, beating second-place Capistrano Valley, 291-178. Brown set a national record in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:40.40. The old mark of 4:41.23 was set last year by Tiffany Cohen of Mission Viejo.

Jorgenson, a junior, won two individual events and anchored the winning 400-yard freestyle relay team. He broke the Southern Section record in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:19.47. It bettered the 1977 mark set by Olympian Brian Goodell, then of Mission Viejo.

Brown, besides setting a national record in the 500 freestyle, also won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:47.42.

Two Southern California Olympians, Jenna Johnson of Whittier Christian and Amy White of University, also were impressive, each winning two events.

The other double winner was Thousand Oaks’ Ron Kemp, who won the 200-yard individual medley and the 100 backstroke.

Brian Alderman of Santa Barbara set a Southern Section record in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 49.27, snapping the old mark of 49.50 set by Sam Franklin of Tustin in 1975.

Another record breaker was Mission Viejo’s Lawrence Roddick, who won the diving competition Thursday with a total score of 576.05, smashing the old mark of 549.25 set by Long Beach Wilson’s Larry Meade in 1984.