Daily Pilot Athlete of the Month

Name: Aaron Peirsol

Born: July 23, 1983

Hometown: Irvine

Height: 6-foot-3

Weight: 175

Sport: Boys swimming

Events: 100 and 200 backstroke, 200 freestyle relay

Coach: Brian Kreutzkamp

Favorite food: Chocolate chip pancakes

Favorite movie: “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”

Best athletic moment: “This past spring, when I won the Senior Nationals

with a 1:57.03 in the 200 backstroke.

Athlete of the Month: Peirsol was the top male swimmer at the Foothill

Swim Games by winning the 100-yard butterfly (50.97), the 200 individual

medley (1:53.71) and anchored the Sailors’ winning 200 freestyle relay

team (1:29.14.) and 400 free relay team (3:16.21).