GRESHAM Several local swimmers had successful meets last week in the Oregon Swimming Championships at Mt. Hood Community College.

The meet was for swimmers age 11 and older, and represented the long course championships (50-meter pool).

In order to compete, swimmers must have achieved the A time standard in their age group for each event they entered. Swimmers were also limited to six entries in the meet.

Five swimmers from the North Coast Swim Club participated.

Natasha Cameron competed in the girls 11-year-old 200-meter individual medley, the 50- and 100-meter breaststroke events, the 100-meter freestyle and the 50-meter butterfly.

She had personal best times in all of her events, and also swam a time trial attempting to achieve the A standard in the 50-meter freestyle.

Josh Shipley competed in the boys 11-year-old 200 individual medley, the 50, 100 and 200 freestyles, and the 50 and 100-meter butterfly. He raced to best times in the 50 and 200 freestyles, as well as the 100 butterfly.

Shannon Christie raced in the girls 12-year-old 50-meter backstroke and 100 freestyle events, achieving best times in both events.

Also swimming with, but not for the North Coast Swim Club, were Enzo Greco, 11 , and Sophia Greco, 13, who both moved to the Astoria area from San Diego this summer.

(All swimmers in USA Swimming must swim unattached for 120 days from their last competition before they can officially attach to a new team.)

Sophia Greco competed in the 100 and 200 butterfly events, and the 400-meter individual medley.

Enzo Greco raced to the finals, finishing sixth in both the 50 and 100 backstroke, seventh in the 200 freestyle, and eighth in the 100 freestyle.

He also had the eighth-fastest entry time in the 400-meter freestyle for 11-year-old boys, earning a swim in the finals.

This was a timed final, with all but the top eight racing during the preliminaries. He finished 10th in the event.

Enzo achieved best times in all of his races except the 50 freestyle and his finals swim in the 200 freestyle.

Complete results are available at the Oregon Swimming web page, www.oregonswimming.org/results