Maryland places 60 on 2012 NISCA All-American Swimming list

With the U.S. Olympic swimming team nearing the Olympics, the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association recently released its list of high school All-Americans.

The lists compile the top 100 performances in each event during the recently completed school year. Maryland is 18th nationally in the number of athletes, while California came in at No. 1 with 750 honorees.

Led by Andrew Sovero of McDonogh and Charlotte Meyer of Whitman, Maryland had 31 boys All-Americans and 29 girls honorees, respectively.

Here is a list of the events that included Maryland athletes (with overall ranking and time):

Boys
200 Medley Relay
John Sanabia, Andrew Sovero, Alec Cosgarea & Collin Turner, McDonogh (Owings Mills) (53rd, 1 minute, 34.37 seconds)

200 Freestyle
Garrett Powell, Johnson (Bethesda) (20th, 1 minute, 38.38 seconds)

50 Freestyle
Jes Stephens, McDonogh (47th, 20.84 seconds)

100 Freestyle
Barry Mangold, Walter Johnson (75th, 45.87 seconds)
Jes Stephens, McDonogh (81st, 45.89 seconds)

500 Freestyle
Garrett Powell, Walter Johnson (6th, 4 minutes, 20.04 seconds)

200 Freestyle Relay
Collin Turner, Andrew Sovero, Austin Butt & Jes Stephens, McDonogh (37th, 1 minute, 24.79 seconds)

100 Breaststroke
Kendrick McDonald, Loyola Blakefield (Towson) (45th, 56.74 seconds)
Andrew Sovero, McDonogh (46th, 56.77 seconds)
Carsten Vissering, Georgetown Prep (North Bethesda) (54th, 56.99 seconds)

400 Freestyle Relay
Ian Silverman, Austin Butt, John Sanabia & Jes Stephens, McDonogh (40th, 3 minutes, 6.87 seconds)
Barry Mangold, Garrett Powell, Ryan Whitescarver & Jean-Marc Nugent, Walter Johnson (77th, 3 minutes, 8.73 seconds)
Cameron James, Kendrick McDonald, Kevin Blum & Connor McGarvey, Loyola Blakefield (88th, 3 minutes, 9.54 seconds)

Diving
Timothy Faerber, Churchill (Potomac)
Thomas Shinholser, Paint Branch (Burtonsville)
Colby Shinholser, Springbrook (Silver Spring)

Girls
200 Freestyle
Katie Ledecky, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart (Bethesda) (8th, 1 minute, 46.75 seconds)
Anna Kolanowski, Sherwood (Sandy Spring) (62nd, 1 minute, 49.85 seconds)
Caroline McTaggart, Holton-Arms (Bethesda) (83rd, 1 minute, 50.48 seconds)
Kristina Li, Wootton (Rockville) (94th, 1 minute, 50.78 seconds)

200 Individual Medley
Charlotte Meyer, Whitman (Bethesda) (2nd, 1 minute, 58.19 seconds)
Kendall Surhoff, St. Paul's Girls (Brooklandville) (61st, 2 minutes, 3.52 seconds)

50 Freestyle
Caroline McTaggart, The Holton Arms (13th, 23.07 seconds)
Reia Tong, Walt Whitman (27th, 23.27 seconds)

100 Butterfly
Natalya Ares, Winston Churchill (44th, 55.09 seconds)

100 Freestyle
Caroline McTaggart, The Holton Arms (14th, 49.94 seconds)
Reia Tong, Walt Whitman (46th, 50.79 seconds)

500 Freestyle
Katie Ledecky, Stone Ridge (3rd, 4 minutes, 39.19 seconds)
Ellen Anderson, Gaithersburg (38th, 4 minutes, 52.02 seconds)

200 Freestyle Relay
Reia Tong, Sarah Kannan, Audrey Gould & Charlotte Meyer, Walt Whitman (21st, 1 minute, 35.39 seconds)

100 Backstroke
Kristina Li, Thomas S. Wootton (28th, 54.85 seconds)
Charlotte Meyer, Walt Whitman (52nd, 55.55 seconds)

100 Breaststroke
Jordan Surhoff, St. Paul's School For Girls (27th, 1 minute, 3.27 seconds)

400 Freestyle Relay
Reia Tong, Victoria Kuhn, Audrey Gould & Charlotte Meyer, Walt Whitman (21st, 3 minutes, 27.63 seconds)
Alicia Tiberino, Bridget Dromerick, Elaina Gu & Natalya Ares, Winston Churchill (82nd, 3 minutes, 31.27 seconds)

Diving
Anne  Kastler, Walter Johnson