Northridge Girl Breaks Swim Marks

Kristine Quance, a 14-year-old Northridge girl, set national and Southern California age-group records in the U. S. Swimming Senior National Short Course championships, which concluded Friday in Nashville, Tenn.

Quance broke Tracy Caulkins’ national record in the 13-14-year-olds’ 200-yard breaststroke Tuesday with a time of two minutes, 15.61 seconds, good for sixth place overall in the meet, open to swimmers aged 11 to 19. Caulkins set the previous mark of 2:15.86 in 1978.

Quance, a freshman at Granada Hills High, also set Southern California age 13-14 records in the 200 individual medley and the 400 IM.

Friday, she won the 13-14 200 IM with a time of 2:02.44, good for fifth overall.

Quance broke the Southern California record with a 4:16.76 in the 400 IM Thursday, winning her age group and finishing fifth overall.

Quance was the only representative of the Valley Aquatics Swim Team at the meet but still swam well enough to finish 22nd in the girls’ team standings.

Former Cal State Northridge swimmer Jeff Kubiak placed in both breaststroke events at the open U. S. Swimming Short Course championships, also in Nashville.

Kubiak, swimming for Austin, Tex.-based Longhorn Aquatics, was second in the 200 breaststroke Tuesday at 1:58.24, and fourth in the 100 breaststroke Thursday with a 54.92.