Photo Gallery: La Cañada competes in Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center
La Cañada’s Rowan Gordon swims the breaststroke leg of the 200 individual medley behind South Pasadena’s Kyra Angkasa and San Marino’s Claire Chiu before she passed them and never again trailed in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. Gordon won the race. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada freshman Halley Hemphill at the start of the 50 freestyle in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. Hemphill improved her qualifying time by 1.4 seconds and won the race. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Danny Syrkin swims the 100 butterfly in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. Syrkin swam the race with the best qualifying time, and swam well enough to beat the Rio Hondo League record, but came in second place by a small few hundreds of a second to South Pasadena’s Jacob Mullin. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Shannon Ring swims the 200 freestyle in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. Ring came in second place. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Danny Syrkin at the start of the 200 freestyle in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Danny Syrkin swims the 200 freestyle in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Rowan Gordon swims the butterfly leg of the 200 individual medley in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada freshman Rowan Gordon waves to friends after her name is announced before swimming the 200 individual medley in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Shannon Ring laughs to a teammate when she hears her name announced before the 200 freestyle in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Thomas Hoffman swims the butterfly leg of the 200 medley relay in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. La Cañada won the race. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Eddie Cosic swims the breaststroke leg of the 200 medley relay in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. La Cañada won the race. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Katrine Madsen swims the butterfly leg of the 200 medley relay in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Rowan Gordon swims the breaststroke leg of the 200 medley relay in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. La Cañada came in second place. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Taking a short moment to reflect, La Cañada’s Danny Syrkin after coming in second place in the 100 butterfly in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. Syrkin swam the race with the best qualifying time, and swam well enough to beat the Rio Hondo League record, but came in second place by a small few hundreds of a second (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Danny Syrkin, right, shakes the hand of 100 butterfly winner Jacob Mullin in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. Syrkin swam the race with the best qualifying time, and swam well enough to beat the Rio Hondo League record, but came in second place by a small few hundreds of a second. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Danny Syrkin at the start of the 100 butterfly in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Katrine Madsen swims the 100 butterfly, finishing in second place, in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Luke Stefan after winning the 50 freestyle in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Thomas Hoffman does the backstroke leg of the 200 individual medley in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Rowan Gordon leaves the pool after winning the 200 individual medley in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
La Cañada’s Rowan Gordon swims the backstroke leg of the 200 individual medley in the Rio Hondo League swim finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)