Monroe, Badaracco and Marshall lead VC at Miyashiro Invite

Jaiden Monroe won three events, two with meet records and Olivia Badaracco claimed a pair of gold medals over the weekend to lead the VC swimming and diving teams at the Bob Miyashiro Invitational at Santa Rosa Junior College. Faith Marshall won a pair of silver medals and set a new school record in the process. The Pirate men were eighth overall out of 13 competing teams and the VC women placed ninth as a team.

Monroe swam a meet-record 49.42 to win gold in the 100-yard butterfly and came back with another record-setting swim for gold in the 100-yard backstroke, touching in 49.70. He made it a hat trick with a 1:50.87 time in the 200-yard backstroke.

Badaracco claimed first with a 58.25 mark in the 100-yard backstroke and swam 2:06.37 in the 200-yard backstroke for the win.

Marshall, meanwhile, may have had the most remarkable swim of the meet for VC, breaking a 27-year-old school record in the 100-yard breaststroke. She swam a 1:05.64 to break the mark of 1:05.85 set by Lori Turner in 1999. Marshall also won silver in the 200-yard breaststroke at 2:24.85, just .33 seconds behind another school standard.

Thomas Shea finished fourth n the 1m diving competition and sixth in the 3m event for the Ventura men. Meanwhile, the quartet of Monroe, Shea, Jacob Otsuki and Parker Steen placed sixth in the 200-yard freestyle relay.

The Pirates' team of Avery Monson, Olivia Decierdo, Marshall and Badaracco touched in third in the 200-yard medley relay and placed fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay.

Ventura next competes on Friday March 27 at the Western State Conference No. 3 meet at Santa Monica.