With as many state meet records set in the last three years at the East Los Angeles College Swim Stadium, there was little doubt that at least one standard would go down on the opening night. On Thursday, after nine events without a record, it was the Diablo Valley men's team that came through for the fans with a record‐shattering win in the 400‐yard medley relay that included another individual record to start the swim.

Earlier, DVC suffered a disqualification from first in the 200 free relay. But the Vikings recovered with a lightning bolt as they shattered a 17‐year‐old record in the 400 medley relay at 3:17.56. The time was almost four seconds faster than the previous mark of 3:21.46 set by the 1998 Golden West squad.

Brandon James opened the relay with a spectacular 47.90 seconds swim that blasted the state meet record in the 100‐yard backstroke. James beat the 2012 record of Ventura's Henry Chung at 48.53.

Defending state men's champion Golden West leads the team standings over DVC while Diablo Valley used three event victories to hold a slim lead over Orange Coast in the women's standings.

WOMEN STANDINGS: 1. Diablo Valley 120, 2. Orange Coast 120, 3. Santa Rosa 94, 4.Golden West 91, 5. Pasadena CC 81, 6. Sierra 78, 7. Grossmont 68, 8. Santa Barbara CC 59, 9. El Camino 53, 10. Cuesta 41.

MEN STANDINGS: 1. Golden West 171.5, 2. Diablo Valley 133, 3. Sierra 104.5, 4. Riverside CC 96, 5. Ventura 88, 6. American River 71, 7. Orange Coast 57, 8. San Diego Mesa 54, 9. San Mateo 46, 10. Santa Rosa JC 45

Diablo Valley opens up the meet holding on at the finish by just .05 a second ahead of second place Orange Coast (1:37.02). Leonard's opening 23.30 was followed by an explosive 23.23 50 by Woods as DVC kept a strong lead. OCC's anchor Alexa Clayfield swam 23.81 to make it close. Sierra took third at 1:38.02.

Event 2: Men's 200 Freestyle Relay: 1. Golden West, 1:22.09 (Fletcher Norseen, Dalton Kenefick, Nathan Torres, Bradley Toland)

A disqualification of Diablo Valley voided its original winning time of 1:22.02 as Golden West grabbed the title here. The Rustlers had a strong opening from Norseen at 20.28 and each of the remaining swimmers posted under‐21 splits. Sierra placed second at 1:22.46 and Ventura was third in 1:23.60.

Event 3: Women's 500 Freestyle: 1. Kelsey Leonard, Diablo Valley, 4:57.26 Leonard is a 2‐time winner in this event as the only woman to break five minutes this season. She shaved .50 of a second off her winning time of a year ago as she raced away from the pack after an early challenge by eventual second place finisher Suzanna Gonzales (5:08.86). Gisel Chavez‐Vega of Southwestern took third in 5:10.74

Event 4: Men's 500 Freestyle: 1. Gabriel Miranda, Santa Monica, 4:30.79
Miranda beat second place Evan Augst (Diablo Valley, 4:34.32) by 3.53 seconds for the title. Riverside's Adrien Deloffre was third in 4:35.75. Miranda had a strong opening 200 at 1:43.94 and kept that lead to the finish. American River's Brenton Sayers had the top swim in the morning prelims at 4:33.16 but struggled to sixth in the final at 4:41.60.

Event 5: Women's 200 Individual Medley: 1. Rachelle Visser, Santa Barbara City, 2:07.43 Visser led early, but fell behind De Anza's Thuy Phi (4th, 2:10.72) at the midway mark. Visser would recover and swam the fastest free split (29.28) to close the victory. Host school East Los Angeles Yingfei Zhang scored second (2:09.88) and Orange Coast's Alexa Clayfield was third (2:10.72).

Event 6: Men's 200 Individual Medley: 1. Neil Franka, San Diego Mesa, 1:48.78   Franka opened with a 23.38 butterfly and then had an event best 31.52 split in the breaststroke. Second‐place Gabriel Hernandez (Golden West) closed with a 26.03 final split but finished a full second behind (1:49.87). Diablo Valley's James took third in 1:51.21.

Event 7: Women's 50 Freestyle: 1. Rebecca Aguilar, Orange Coast, 23.71
Aguilar followed her top prelim swim by winning the sprint, edging out second place Racheal Grutzmacher (Cuesta) at 23.88 and Las Positas' McKenna Stevulak in third at 23.97.

Event 8: Men's 50 Freestyle: 1. Mitchell Ongstad, Ventura, 20.25
Ongstad swam a faster prelim at 20.17, but his finals swim was enough to edge Golden West's Fletcher Norseen (second, 20.36). San Mateo's Kawei Tan placed third in 21.04 and Diablo Valley's Jacob Frigard fourth at 21.05.

Event 9: Women's 400 Medley Relay: 1. Diablo Valley, 3:53.41 (Callie Klein, Renae DiBartolomeo, Kelsey Leonard, Laura Woods)
In an interesting race, DVC overcame Pasadena City's Connie Peng's opening backstroke split of 57.89 and also Orange Coast's Nacinda Paap second leg breaststroke (1:08.42) to finally pull away for the win. Kelsey Leonard's 55.61 in the butterfly and Laura Woods' anchor 50.94 freestyle turned a close swim into a 7‐plus second victory. Pasadena edged (4:00.55) Orange Coast for second (4:00.89, third).