Shelby Jackson highlighted the final day of the Western State Conference championships with a new school record in the 200-yard butterfly as Ventura's women's swimming and diving team placed third and the men finished seventh in the three-day affair at LA Valley. Jackson broke the record in her morning qualifier and claimed second in the finals for the women's best finish of the day while Carlos Gonzalez led the men for the third consecutive day.
Jackson finished the 200-yard fly in 2:16.88 in her morning preliminary race, breaking Paige Treloar-Ballard's mark of 2:25.03 set in 2017. In the final, Jackson was a bit slower, but still claimed the silver medal for VC's best individual finish of the day.
Allison Donnelly started the final session of the three-day meet finishing fourth in the 1650-yard freestyle and Cassidy Yanca came in seventh. Ahna Davis was eighth in the 200-yard backstroke with Caitlyn Hilgenberg touching in ninth place.In the 200-yard breast stroke, Stephany Dijar finished eighth and Emily Baughn was 14th for the Pirate women.
Finally, Donnelly, Dijar, Davis and Yanca came in fifth in the 400-yard freestyle relay.
After the meet, Ventura's Allison Harris was named the Women's WSC's Women's Co-Diver of the Year.
Gonzalez was once again the standout for the Pirate men. His sixth place finish in the 1650-yard free was VC's best individual mark of the day. Sebastian Ayala came in 14th in the race.
Later, George Bonilla touched in seventh place in the 200-yard butterfly and Jonathan Fleming was 13th while Michael Andrews came in 10th in the 200-yard backstroke with Ramon Rodriguez finishing 12th. In the 100-yard freestyle, Hunter Johnson touched in 11th and Rafael Rodriguez came in 15th to score for Ventura.
In the meet's final race, Raf. Rodriguez, Johnson, Ram. Rodriguez and Gonzales finished seventh in the 400-yard freestyle relay.
Following the competition, Ayden Jacobus received the conference Men's Diver of the Year award.
The Ventura women totaled 485 points over the three days plus last week's diving competition, good for third place of the 10 competing teams. Santa Barbara claimed the team title with 798 points followed by Santa Monica with 596. Hancock finished fourth with 405 points.
The Pirate men finished in seventh place overall with 270 points. Cuesta won the team title with 755.5 points.