As a junior at St. Joseph High School, Justin Jones is a dual athlete on the school’s swimming and water polo teams.
His coach for both teams, Bianca McNeil, said Jones was part of a successful season for the boys’ water polo team and has broken numerous personal records as a swimmer.
McNeil said Jones has met and exceeded time standards, or consideration times, for different events set by the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section.
For individual events, Jones met the consideration time for multiple events with times of 58.9 in the 100 meter butterfly event, 1:03 in the 100 meter backstroke, and 3:46 in the 400 meter freestyle relay.
Jones was also a member of the boys’ relay team that met the consideration time with 1:54 in the 200 meter medley relay.
McNeil said Jones and the rest of the boys’ swim team may break the school’s record time for relays this year.
“Justin has been an amazing swimmer this season, and the team is lucky to have him,” McNeil said.
This article appears in Apr 18-25, 2019.