Ung Shatters 2 School Records On Her Way To SCC Co-Women's Swimmer of Year

Carmen Ung extended the Lancers SCC Swimmer of the Year streak to seven years, photo by Richard Quinton.
Carmen Ung extended the Lancers SCC Swimmer of the Year streak to seven years, photo by Richard Quinton.

Carmen Ung extended a remarkable streak for the Pasadena City College women's swim team on Saturday in being named the 2019 South Coast Conference Co-Swimmer of the Year. Ung, who set two school records as part of three individual event wins, represented the seventh straight season in which a Lancer has won the prestigious SCC award. The Lancers placed seventh as a team at the SCC Championships held April 18-20 at Mt. San Antonio College.

Ung won the 50-yard freestyle title with the third fastest time in school history (24.65 seconds) on Thursday, broke her own school record in taking the gold medal in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.33, snapping her Pasadena Invite time by 1.25 seconds) on Friday, then capped her sparkling meet with a new school record in the 200 breaststroke of 2:24.72. She swam 2:25 to originally break the mark in the prelims set by Jocelyn Jo last year of 2:26.77, and her finals time is now the new standard.

Ung, a freshman Mark Keppel High, shared the SCC Swimmer of the Year with Ida Due of El Camino College. Ung now has the state's second-fastest time in the 100 breaststroke as she prepares for the CCCAA State Championships to be held May 2-4 at De Anza College.

Also for PCC directed by head coach Terry Stoddard, Yvette Rosales scored second in the 200 butterfly (2:44.24) and placed fourth in the 1,650 freestyle in a season-best time of 21:19.14. The 200 medley relay squad of Fernanda Alvarez, Ung, Rosales and Anna Herrin scored a 2:13.15 to place fourth in the event. 

Mt. San Antonio won the SCC women's team championship.

7-Year Streak of Lancers Winning SCC Women's Swimmer of the Year

2013-Shannon Cheung
2014-Cheung, Connie Peng
2015-Peng, Ariahn Givens
2016-Givens, Liza Echeverria
2017-Melissa Cienega, Jocelyn Jo
2018-Cienega (and Mt. SAC's Ashley Tse)
2019-Carmen Ung (and El Camino's Ida Due)