{"id":355012,"date":"2026-06-10T18:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355012\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:12:22","slug":"press-telegram-boys-swimming-dream-team-swimmer-of-the-year-2026-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355012\/","title":{"rendered":"Press-Telegram boys swimming Dream Team, swimmer of the year 2026 \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESS-TELEGRAM BOYS SWIMMING DREAM TEAM 2026<\/p>\n

SWIMMER OF THE YEAR<\/p>\n

Lucas Jue, Long Beach Poly, Senior<\/p>\n

Long Beach Poly senior Lucas Jue has been selected as the Press-Telegram boys swimmer of the year after winning the state championship in the 500-yard freestyle in 4 minutes, 22.04 seconds at the CIF State swimming and diving championships. He also finished ninth in the 100-yard breaststroke in 53.06. Jue was named swimmer of the year as a junior<\/a> and as a sophomore<\/a>. The Louisville signee finished second in the 500-yard freestyle (4:22.87) and third in the 100-yard backstroke (49.59) at the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 finals. He also won Moore League individual titles in the 200-yard individual medley (1:48.50 meet record) and the 500-yard freestyle (4:21.83 meet and league record).<\/p>\n

\"LongLong Beach Poly senior Lucas Jue celebrates winning the 500-yard freestyle title at the CIF state swimming championships at
\nClovis West High School on Saturday, May 16, 2026. (Photo by: Darren Jue, Long Beach Poly swimming)<\/p>\n

FIRST TEAM DREAM TEAM<\/p>\n

(All distances in yards)<\/p>\n

200 medley relay: Cerritos (Roy Kim, Fr., Anthony Dornoff, Jr., Andrew Vet, Sr., Andres Garay, Sr.) 1:33.38; Los Alamitos (Baron Lemus, Sr., Caleb Sandvig, Sr., Clark Milar, Sr., Alex Maxon, Sr.) 1:34.58; St. John Bosco (Mathew Dobson, Fr., Roger Chen, Jr., Declan Crans, Fr., Luke Haller, So.) 1:38.79.<\/p>\n

200 freestyle: Keegan Abing, (Wilson, Sr.) 1:42.64; Nicholas Brake (St. John Bosco, So.) 1:46.45; Joseph Meza (Warren, Sr.) 1:48.44.<\/p>\n

200 individual medley: \u00a0Anthony Dornoff (Cerritos, Jr.) 1:47.10 (3rd at CIF State meet); Andrew Vet (Cerritos, Sr.) 1:50.32; Roy Kim (Cerritos, Fr.) 1:51.98; Roger Chen (St. John Bosco, Jr.) 1:57.88.<\/p>\n

50 freestyle: Josh Price (Mayfair, Sr.) 20.59.<\/p>\n

100 butterfly: Josh Price (Mayfair, Sr.) 48.36; Caleb Sandvig (Los Alamitos, Sr.) 50.22.<\/p>\n

100 freestyle: Nicholas Brake (St. John Bosco, So.) 47.49; Kai Bramble (Wilson, Sr.) 47.66; Jesus Landaverde (Warren, Fr.) 49.16.<\/p>\n

500 freestyle: Lucas Jue (Long Beach Poly, Sr.) 4:22.04 (state champion); Anthony Dornoff (Cerritos, Jr.) 4:26.05; Andrew Vet (Cerritos, Sr.) 4:34.05; Keegan Abing (Wilson, Sr.) 4:43.83.<\/p>\n

\"LongLong Beach senior Lucas Jue (centered) stands tall on the podim after winning the 500-yard freestyle title at the CIF state swimming championships at Clovis High School on Saturday, May 16, 2026. (Photo by: Ishmael Pluton, Long Beach Poly swimming)<\/p>\n

200 freestyle relay: Wilson (Aidan Conrey, So., Fernando Rejon, Jr., Fox Wise, Fr., Keegan Abing, Sr.) 1:25.55; St. John Bosco (Nicholas Brake, So., Nathaniel Brake, Sr., Mathew Dobson, Fr., Luke Haller, So.) 1:29.09.<\/p>\n

100 backstroke: Lucas Jue (Long Beach Poly, Sr.) 50.22; Roy Kim (Cerritos, Fr.) 50.70.<\/p>\n

100 breaststroke: Caleb Sandvig (Los Alamitos, Sr.) 56.72; Roger Chen (St. John Bosco, Jr.) 58.46.<\/p>\n

400 freestyle relay: Cerritos (Matthew Ho, Sr., Andrew Vet, Sr., Roy Kim, Fr., Anthony Dornoff, Jr.) 3:09.10; Wilson (Aidan Conrey, So., Fernando Rejon, Jr., Fox Wise, Fr., Keegan Abing, Sr.) 3:10.11; St. John Bosco (Luke Haller, So., Mathew Dobson, Fr., Nicholas Brake, So., Nathaniel Brake, Sr.) 3:15.29.<\/p>\n

Diving: Brayden Ogawa (Long Beach Poly, Fr.) 502.00; Romeo Lobedecis (Long Beach Poly, Fr.) 484.55.<\/p>\n

Note: Selections based on times at the CIF-SS finals or CIF State finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRESS-TELEGRAM BOYS SWIMMING DREAM TEAM 2026 SWIMMER OF THE YEAR Lucas Jue, Long Beach Poly, Senior Long Beach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,2044,116329,131,133,132,137,127],"class_list":["post-355012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-high-school-sports","tag-high-school-swimming","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}