Three Napa Valley Swim Team members recently represented Pacific Swimming in two All-Star Swim Meets.

Megan Minor, Elise Roberts and Danielle Carey all shined in the regional swim action.

One meet was held in Gresham, Ore. and the other was held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Minor, 10, Roberts, 12 and the 18-year-old Carey had to meet stringent time standards to earn spots in these competitions. Based on these times, Pacific Swimming then chose the top swimmers from each age group to compete at these All-Star meets.

Minor, a fifth-grader at Northwood Elementary School, was one of six swimmers chosen by Pacific Swimming to compete in the girls 9-10-year-old division at the Western Zone Swimming Championships held at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Ore.

Minor was chosen to represent Pacific Swimming and Napa Valley Swim Team at this swim meet based on her seven qualifying times.

Roberts, an eighth-grader at Silverado Middle School, was one of eight swimmers chosen by Pacific Swimming to compete in the girls 11-12-year-old division at the North American Challenge Cup held at the Kinsmen Sports Centre in Edmonton, Canada.

Roberts was chosen to represent Pacific Swimming and Napa Valley Swim Team at this meet based on her two qualifying times.

Carey was also one of eight swimmers chosen to represent the girls 17-18-year-old division at the North American Challenge Cup based on her three qualifying times.

Minor’s swims at the Western Zone Championships helped Pacific Swimming place second overall, by only nine points, to the All-Star Team from the Pacific Northwest.

All-Star teams that competed in Oregon were from the Western United States and included teams from Hawaii, Sierra Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon and the Inland Empire.

This swim meet was a preliminary and finals swim meet, meaning in order to make it to the finals in the afternoon, swimmers had to be among the top eight finishers in the morning preliminary swims.

Minor competed in five events, making it to the afternoon finals in three of those events. Minor placed seventh overall in her 100-meter freestyle, seventh overall in her 100 backstroke and eighth overall in her 50 freestyle.

Minor also swam the backstroke leg of the 200 medley relay “A” team, that finished first overall and

She also swam the lead-off leg of the 200 freestyle relay “A” team, that also finished first overall.

Roberts’ and Carey’s swims at the North American Challenge Cup helped Pacific Swimming place third overall to the All-Star teams from Canada and Southern California. All-Star teams that competed in Canada were from Canada, Southern California and Mexico.

This swim meet was also a preliminary and finals swim meet.

Roberts competed in six events, making it to the finals in one of those events, the 100 breastroke.

Roberts also placed 10th overall in the 200 breastroke. Roberts was a member of the girls "B" 200 medley relay, “B” 400 medley relay and the “B” 200 freestyle relay.

Each of these relays finished fifth.

Carey, a freshman studying communications at Concordia College in Irvine, competed in the 100-meter butterfly where she finished fifth overall with a personal best time of 1:06.67.

 Carey also competed in the 200 butterfly and the 200 IM.

Carey swam the butterfly leg on the 400 medley relay “A” team where they not only placed fourth overall, but set a new Pacific Swimming All-Star record with a time of 4:34.71.

That team’s relay performance also surpassed the existing national All-Star record in that event.