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UAAP swimming: As records fall, La Salle's Chua continues to dominate

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Xandi Chua of La Salle in action. UAAP Media." src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/life/11/26/400-lc-freestyle-women-s-xiandi-chua.jpg"/><figcaption>Xandi Chua of La Salle in action. UAAP Media.</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA, Philippines -- On a day of fallen records, De La Salle University and Ateneo de Manila University kept their hold of the top spot of the women&#x27;s and men&#x27;s divisions, respectively, after Day 2 of the UAAP Season 85 Collegiate Swimming Championships, Friday at the Teofilo Yldefonso Swimming Pool in Malate, Manila.Ateneo&#x27;s Thanya Dela Cruz stole the show on Friday, as she established a new Philippine mark in the 50-meter breaststroke with 31.11-seconds. She broke her own record of 32.42-s, set during the National Open, helping lift the Blue Eagles to third place with 97 points.The depth of the De La Salle women&#x27;s team continues to make a difference, however, with Xandi Chua leading the way for the Lady Green Tankers.Chua took her fourth gold of the season in the women&#x27;s 400-meter freestyle with a time of 4:34.07, her second gold in the long-distance freestyle races after taking the 800-m title the previous day with 9:26.53.Chloe Isleta broke the women&#x27;s 200-meter backstroke record twice, establishing the mark at 2:22.66 in the preliminaries before doing it anew with 2:18.40 in the finals en route to the gold.Chua, Isleta, and the Lady Green Tankers, thus pulled ahead of University of the Philippines with 209 points against the latter&#x27;s 163.Fighting Maroons Gabrielle Purisima, Louise Lacson, Gene Quiambao, and Angela Villamil joined the fray with a new UAAP record of 4:10.95 in the women&#x27;s 4x100-meter freestyle relay, breaking the UAAP Season 82 record of Ateneo of 4:11.31. Camille Buico pulled off the upset of the season so far after pulling the rug of Isleta in the women&#x27;s 100-meter butterfly with 1:02.72 over the latter&#x27;s 1:03.37.On the men&#x27;s side, the Blue Eagle rookies showed up in all of the day&#x27;s individual events with the titles for the lead with 190 points.Philip Joaquin Santos paced the Ateneans with the gold and the new UAAP record in the men&#x27;s 200-meter backstroke with a time of 2:08.96, breaking a 10-year-old record set by DLSU&#x27;s Johansen Aguilar at 2:09.29.Joshua Del Rio bagged his second gold of the season after winning the 800-meter freestyle the other day with a gold in the 400m on Friday with 4:11.54. Rafael Isip won the 50-meter breaststroke with 29.63, while Rafael Barreto took the 50-meter butterfly with 55.95.The Green Tankers kept in step with Ateneo with 161 points, closing the day with a record-breaking swim at the 4x100-meter freestyle relay with Josemaria Roldan, Sean Gabriel Cruz, Jaren Tan, and Seb Wong with a time of 336.25.The Fighting Maroons, though, made strides to close the gap with 144 points, highlighted by its silvers in the 50-meter breaststroke with Gerard Samson and in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay with Joshua Vitangcol, Rafo Torres, Franco Dela Rosa, Hans Chua.University of Santo Tomas is in fourth place in both men&#x27;s and women&#x27;s with 38 and 72 points, respectively.UST continues to dominate the high school divisions, with 12-year-old Aishel Evangelista pulling off a stunner as he established a new age-group record in boys&#x27; 11-13 with a time of 4:24.62, breaking the 13-and-under mark of Ryan Arabejo of 4:28.62 he set during the 2002 Batang Pinoy held in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, to get the boys&#x27; 400-meter freestyle bronze.The reigning boys&#x27; champions punctuated the day with a new UAAP record in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay with 3:45.13, breaking the old mark set by their predecessors just last UAAP Season 82.Martin Tirol and Ivo Enot scored the wins for Ateneo in the 50-meter breaststroke and the 200-meter backstroke with 30.54 and 2:16:39, respectively, to carry the fight for the Blue Eagles.On the girls&#x27; side, it was a lopsided affair as the Junior Lady Tigersharks breached the 300-point mark with 300 markers over UPIS&#x27; 86.

La Salle and Ateneo kept their hold of the top spot of the women's and men's divisions, respectively, in UAAP Season 85 swimming.