Thousand Oaks’ Calkins Wins Two Freestyle Events : High school swimming: Senior’s 500 time in Southern Section Division I championships is second-fastest in nation this year.

Valery Calkins of Thousand Oaks High won two events--the 200-yard freestyle and the 500 freestyle--and swam the second-fastest high school time in the nation this year in the 500 in the Southern Section Division I swimming championships at Belmont Plaza pool in Long Beach on Friday.

Calkins, who will attend South Carolina next year on a swimming scholarship, turned in the top performance by an area swimmer at the meet.

She won the 200 in 1 minute 49.82 seconds and the 500 in 4:51.01.

“It feels good,” Calkins said. “I expected to win the 200 but the 500 was a tossup.”

Calkins outdueled Sarah Nichols of Rio Mesa in the 500. Nichols lurked one-half body length behind Calkins the entire race, but could not overtake her. Nichols finished third in 4:51.71, being edged out for second place by 1/100th of a second.

In the team competition, defending champion Buena managed a fourth-place finish with 129 points. El Toro won with 167.5 points.

Harvey Wilford of Agoura captured second in the boys’ 200 individual medley in 1:53.93, behind Turkish Olympic team member Derya Buyukuncu of Woodbridge High in 1:49.78, the second-fastest high school time in the nation this year.

Edward Ruth of Thousand Oaks took third place in the event in 1:54.55 and John Lory of Buena was fifth in 1:56.03.

Lory also finished second in the 500 freestyle in 4:36.87, and Wilford finished sixth in the 100 butterfly in 52.87.

Hueneme’s Doug Colby was fourth in the 100 backstroke in 52.68. Buyukuncu won the event in 47.84, a national high school record.

Jeff Bryan of Thousand Oaks was fourth in the boys’ one-meter diving, held Thursday.

Buena’s Mandy Walz took third in the girls’ 100 backstroke in 56.89 and finished fifth in the 100 butterfly in 58.80.

Her teammate, Marissa Roarty, was third in the 200 individual medley in 2:06.79. Bulldog Danielle Walker was fifth in 2:07.97 and Agoura’s Erin Schatz sixth in 2:08.03. Roarty also finished fifth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:07.77.

Buena’s Abby Gustafson, defending champion in the 50-meter freestyle, did not qualify for the championship final. She won the consolation final in 24.88.