Three Claremont Swimmers To Compete in Olympic Trials

Only the greatest athletes in the world will have the opportunity to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London this summer, and three of those atheletes might be local teenagers.

Noelle Tarazona, 19, Sonia Wang, 15, and Michael Haney, 17, who all are part of The Claremont Club swim team, will travel to Omaha, NE, from June 25 to July 2 to swim in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, according to The Claremont Courier.

TCC head coach John Ries told The Courier that only one half of one percent of all swimmers reach qualifying speeds in their events that will send them to the trials.

Tarazona, a Claremont High School '11 graduate, and Wang, an Upland High School freshman, will each be competing in four events: the 200 and 400 individual medleys and the 100 and 200 butterfly races.

Haney, a 2012 graduate from Bloomington High School, will compete in the 200 butterfly and 100 freestyle events.

Read the full feature on the swimmers in The Claremont Courier.