Local swim star Sims to compete at World University Games

Cal’s Amanda Sims, a legendary swimmer at Montgomery High, will compete at the World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia, beginning Monday.

Sims is part of a 13-person U.S. women’s team that was selected based on their performance at the 2008 U.S. Open Championships in Minneapolis last summer. The team members must be at least 17 years old and currently competing in college.

Sims will swim in the 50-meter butterfly Sunday and the 100-meter butterfly Wednesday.

A seven-time North Coast Section champion at Montgomery, Sims, who will be a junior in the fall, won the 100 butterfly at the NCAA Championships in March to help lead Cal to its first national title. Sims also finished fourth in the 200 butterfly.

Montgomery’s Tyler Main has been recognized as a National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association/Speedo All-American in the breastroke. The top 130 high school swimmers in each event nationally receive All-American status.

Main, who finished eighth in the 100-yard breastroke at the North Coast Section Championships in May, will swim at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the fall.