The American River College men’s and women’s swim teams both finished in fourth place at the Big 8 Championships.

The women’s team finished the meet with 424.5 points and fell behind third place Sierra College, second place Diablo Valley College and first place Santa Rosa Junior College, who finished the meet with 827 points.

Allison Gargalikis and Kelsey Leonard from DVC won Female Athlete for the event.

Female Performance of the Meet was won by Chrissie Adarme, Allison Gargalikis, Kelsey Leonard and Laura Woods, all from DVC.

ARC’s Tiera Kraft won Female Diver of the Meet, the only female swimmer from ARC to win an award, and Santa Rosa’s Jill McCormick won Coach of the Year.

The men’s team finished the meet with 362.5 points and fell behind third place Sierra, who finished with 640 points at the meet, second place Santa Rosa and first place DVC, who finished the meet with 791 points.

Male Athletes in this event were John Bing of Santa Rosa, Dominic Baldwin of DVC and Eric Maginnis of Sierra.

Performance of the Meet was won by John Bing of Santa Rosa and Dominic Baldwin of DVC.

Male Diver of the Meet was won by Brandon Cox of Sierra, and Coach of the Year was won by Rick Millington of DVC.

The event took place April 17-18 at San Joaquin Delta College.