DACA edged out the Terrapins of Concord for first place in the Far Western meet held April 1-4 in Pleasanton. Competing in three different age groups against hundreds of swimmers from throughout Northern California, DACA's boys and girls totaled 735 points, just ahead of the Terrapins (725) and well ahead of third-place Walnut Creek (378.5).

And coaches Tori Eubanks, Abi Liu and Mark Taliaferro were excited as their charges won in record-breaking style.

Records fall

Led by Shayne Fleming and Adam Hinshaw, DACA swimmers set 29 team records, 16 in individual events and 13 in relays. In fact, six of the record-busting efforts established new meet records and seven created new Pacific Swimming regional standards.

Fleming set seven team records and two Pacific marks while winning four 11­12 boys events and placing second in three others. Hinshaw, the high-point winner in the 10 and under boys class, won six events and took second in another. In doing so he set five individual team records and was part of two record-breaking relay squads.

Fleming won the 50-yard freestyle (23.58 seconds), 200 backstroke (2:04.1), 100 individual medley (58.74) and the 200 IM (4:30.41) and placed second in the 100 free (51.91), 50 back (27.64)and 100 back (57.15), all 11­12 boys team records. His time in the 200 back is a new Far Western and Pacific record. Fleming's second-place effort in the 100 back surpassed the previous Pacific record that had been established in 1991.

Austin Kao, Matt Murray and Ben Hinshaw joined Fleming on the 200 free relay. Their meet record time of 1:40.02 also lowered the Pacific record set by DACA in January. Fleming, Richard Chen, Matt Murray and Hinshaw raised the bar in the 400 medley relay. Their mark of 4:06.35 reduced the old Pacific record by more than two seconds. Both relay teams smashed meet records that had been standing since 1983. Murray, Hinshaw and Fleming also helped set team records in the 400 free and the 200 medley relays. Connor Still swam a freestyle leg and Mark Liu helped with the medley.

Four other DACA relay units placed in the 11­12 boys class. Alan Reed, Erich Peske, Bryan Steele and Still were fourth in the 200 free, while Michael Zhang, Liu, Michael Chen and Trevor Stanbury teamed for eighth in the same event. Reed, Liu, Peske and Still scored a fourth in the 400 medley. Zhang, Chen, Kao and Stanbury combined for sixth in the 200 medley.

Hinshaw's time of 17:47.55 in the 1,650 free improved Pacific and Far Western meet records he had set in 2003. Hinshaw also had top-eight finishes in six other events, including third in the 1,000 free.

Murray, Richard Chen and Liu also turned in top-eight efforts in the 11­12 boys class. Murray swam to third in the 200 butterfly, fourth in the 100 fly and 100 IM and sixth in the 50 free and 50 fly. Chen was fourth in the 200 breast and seventh in the 100 breast. Liu took sixth in the 50 breast.

10 and under boys

In the 10-and-under boys class, Adam Hinshaw set new DACA records in four freestyle races and the 100 IM. His winning time of 5:17.83 in the 500 free also lowered the Pacific and Far Western records. His other free times were 26.62 for 50, 57.56 for 100 and 2:03.17 for 200. He was pushed in the two shorter sprints and the IM by teammate Shotaro Ban, who was second in those events.

The 200 medley relay team of Ian Yuh, Ban, Mitchell Song and Hinshaw went 2:05.53, smashing the old meet record of 2:08.29 set in 1985 by Arden Hills Swim Club. Another DACA quartet, the team of Jeremie DeZwirek, Brandon Conroy, A.J. Zavala and Casey Fleming, claimed second place in 2:09.25.

Hinshaw, Ban, DeZwirek and Fleming set a meet record (1:52.42) in the 200 free relay. The "B" team of Yuh, Song, Brandon Conroy and Michael Leung placed second in 1:58.44. A third DACA team, comprised of Quinn Markwith, Jared Wong, Mac Hyde and Zavala, placed eighth.

Ban won both butterfly and backstroke events, producing team records in the 50 back (31.01) and the 100 butterfly (1:04.87). He also won the 50 fly and 100 back.

Teammates challenged Ban in each of his victories. DeZwirek was fourth, Zavala fifth and Conroy eighth in the 50 fly. Hinshaw was second in the 100 fly, followed by DeZwirek (fourth) and Zavala (fifth). In the backstroke races, Yuh was second at 50 yards and DeZwirek seventh, and Yuh was fifth and DeZwirek sixth at 100.

Song captured first place in both breaststroke races, winning the 50 in 36.10 and the 100 in 1:18.44. Conroy was third in the 100. DeZwirek and Conroy placed three-four in the 200 IM. Conroy took sixth in the 100 medley.

13­14 boys

Five DACA relay records fell in the 13­14 boys division, as Kevin Parizi and Arthur Lam were members of each record-setting relay unit. Parizi and Lam teamed with Dustin Chien and Steven Chien to take second in the 400 free and third in the 200 free.

Parizi, Lam and Andrew Chin handled the first three legs of the third-place 400 medley and the third-place 200 medley. Steven Chien swam the final 100 yards in the 400 and Dustin Chien anchored the 200 race. Parizi, Ryan Hinshaw, Lam and Chin placed fifth in the 800 free relay.

Parizi also placed in five individual events. His efforts included seconds in the 50 free and 200 back and a third in the 100 back.

13­14 girls

Danielle Gong, competing in the 13­14 girls class, set one team record and helped break another. Gong's third-place effort of 10:38.51 in the 1,000 free produced one new mark. She joined Julia Still, Mao Ueno and Hayes Hyde in setting a new 800 free mark with a second-place finish of 7:55.72.

No records were set, but the freestyle relay team of Margaux Castejon, Gong, Ueno and Hyde won two championships, taking the 200 in 1:42.11 and the 400 in 3:39.14.

The medley relay team of Still, Gong, Hyde and Ueno worked together to place third in the 400 and fourth in the 200. Another DACA 400 medley squad of Eloise Nichols, Ellen Umeda, Castejon and Allison Frisbie placed sixth.

Hyde placed in six individual events and Gong placed in five. Hyde was second in the 100 and 200 freestyle races, third in the 50 Free and 200 fly, fourth in the 100 fly and fifth in the 100 back.

In addition to her record-setting effort in the 1000 free, Gong was fourth in the 200 free, fifth in the 400 IM, sixth in the 200 IM and eighth in the 200 back. Still was seventh in the 1000 free.

10 and under girls

DACA has a new record in the 10 and under girls class. The 200 free relay team of Eva Chen, Lucia Lin, Alice Shieh and Haley Oosterhouse saw to that. The foursome finished third with an effort of 1:59.81.

Chen, who was fifth in the 50 breast and sixth in the 100 back, anchored the 200 medley relay. Lin, Paige Davis and Oosterhouse teamed with Chen for a third-place finish.

11­12 girls

In the 11­12 girls division, Audrey Kwong placed fourth in the 200 and 500 free races and helped two relay teams gain top-eight finishes. Kwong combined with Stephanie Nguyen, Lindsey Oosterhouse and Marcy Lopez for sixth in the 400 free and eighth in the 200 free.

17­18 girls

Although their efforts were not included in the team scoring Sasha Brophy and Jessica Lee turned in top-eight finishes in the 17­18 girls class.

Brophy sprinted 54.16 to take second place in the 100 free, while Lee earned sixth in the 100 breast with an effort of 1:10.15.