Saturday, February 28, 2009

An early taste of paradise

Tim Jones has his college choices narrowed to Hawaii and Southern Cal.
Tough call, eh?
Before he goes west for the next phase of his life, Jones earned Texas glory Saturday morning when he won the boys 100 freeestyle state championship. He finished in 45.34, just ahead of Kingwood's Austin Wilson (45.4) and El Paso Coronado's Jake Hartley (45.46). Lamar's Zach Holmes was fourth (46.13) and Shea Kenny from Cypress Woods came in seventh (46.47).
"I just swam as fast as I could ... to my potential," Jones said. "I didn't do as well as I wanted in the 200 (he finished fifth earlier in the day) so I wanted to redeem myself. ...
"I had to focus more today. Usually in the finals it's how you finish that determines the race."

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