On May 31 to June 2, the FSPY swim team participated in the Long Course Cup swim meet at the Jersey Aquatic Center in New Providence, NJ. The meet was hosted by the Greater Somerset County YMCA’s (GSCY) swim team and included many local area YMCA teams. The Jersey Aquatic Center features an Olympic-size pool, perfect for long course races, which are swum in a 50-meter length course. For our swimmers this meet was the first opportunity of the season to dive into a long-course pool, and for many of the younger swimmers – first time ever! These races require a different set of skills, a lot of strength and endurance. Swimmers who met the qualifying time cuts could swim a distance event on Friday night as well as enter a maximum of three individual events and one relay per day over Saturday and Sunday. Congratulations to all FSPY swimmers on their swims!
Saturday sessions started with the 200M Free relays. Both FSPY 10under teams (girls: Gabriela Lukov, Brooklynn Mihansky, Samara Bithun, Isabella Manfredi; boys: Max Andreoli, Derek Liu, Jayden Yim, Jack Piskadlo), and the 11/12 girls (Rose Ferreiro, Juliet Bickoff, Milan Fevrier, Eva Lubenow) took 2nd place! Meanwhile, the 13/14 girls relay of Janice Yip, Jane Kavanagh, Zoe Llagan and Mary Ferreiro took 1st! 13/14 Boy (Dylan Mora, Achilleas Balakrishnan, Jase Villaverde and Jayden Le) came in 6th. 15O girl (Billie Sherratt, Laura Kim, Elle Cadigan, Catherine Ritter) placed 3rd. While the 15O boys (Brandon Calderone, Tim Kou, Dylan Lagrimas, Jason Ma) – 4th. Congratulations to our freestyle relays!
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10 under girls: Bithun (12th 100M back, 16th 50M back), G. Lukov (11th 100M free, 15th 100M breast), Manfredi (14th 50M free, 13th 100M back, 9th 50M fly, 16th 100M breast), Mihansky (3rd 50M free, 6th 100M back, 9th 100M free, 3rd 50M back), Gianna Verba (15th 50M back).
10 under boys: Andreoli (2nd 50M free, 4th 100M fly, 12th 100M back, 3rd 100M free, 3rd 50M fly, 3rd 100M breast), Piskadlo (15th 50M free, 9th 100M fly, 16th 100M free, 5th 50M fly, 8th 50M back), Yip (2nd 100M fly, 5th 100M back, 2nd 50M fly, 5th 50M back, 2nd 200M IM).
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11/12 girls: Bickoff (6th 4th 50M free, 3rd 50M breast, 3rd 200M free, 4th 100M free, 5th 100M breast, 7th 200M IM), Karen Blevins (16th 50M free, 14th 100M back), Kaylee Chung (4th 100M back, 12th 100M free, 8th 50M fly), Fevrier (2nd 50M free, 7th 100M fly, 11th 200M free, 2nd 100M free, 2nd 50M fly), R. Ferreiro (2nd 200M back, 12th 50M free, 2nd 100M back, 7th 200M free, 6th 100M free, 3rd 50M back, 11th 200M IM), Lubenow (2nd 400M free, 7th 50M free, 4th 100M fly, 4th 200M free, 5th 100M free, 5th 50M fly, 14th 100M breast), S. Lukov (9th 200M breast, 13th 50M breast, 10th 100M free, 13th 100M breast), Chelsea Li (15th 50M free), Kelsey Ruberto (3rd 200M breast, 9th 50M breast, 10th 200M free, 8th 100M free, 3rd 100M breast, 6th 200M IM).
11/12 boys: Sebastian Rodriguez (2nd 200M fly, 12th 50M free, 13th 100M fly, 13th 200M free), Alexandros Balakrishnan (6th 200M breast, 14th 100M breast, 16th 50M back)
13/14 girls: M. Ferreiro (3rd 200M back, 11th 50M free, 4th 100M back, 10th 100M free, 2nd 50M back), Amy Jiang (5th 400M free, 14th 100M back, 9th 200M free, 9th 100M free, 7th 50M back), Kavanagh (7th 50M breast, 2nd 100M back, 1st 200M free, 1st 50M fly, 4th 100M breast), Llagan (8th 200M fly, 1st 50M free, 12th 100M fly, 14th 200M free, 7th 100M free, 3rd 50M fly), Janice Yip (2nd 400M free, 5th 100M fly, 12th 100M free, 4th 50M fly).
13/14 boys: Achi Balakrishnan (10th, 200M back, 12th 100M back, 15th 200M free, 5th 50M back), Julien Dupuis (2nd 200M breast, 4th 50M breast, 2nd 100M breast), EJ Colville (16th 50M breast), Mora (4th, 200M back, 3rd 100M back, 13th 200M free), Villaverde (12th 200M free), Charles Yu (15th 50M back).
15Over girls: Normandie Beversluis (7th 200M breast, 14th 200M IM, 6th 200M free), Cadigan (1st 200M breast, 9th 100M free, 11th 50M fly, 12th 100M breast), Emma Crall (14th 200M back, 15th 100M back), Ying Chow (2nd 200M breast, 6th 100M breast) Goret (13th 200M back, 13th 50M breast), Phoebe Kaplan (10th 200M fly, 4th 400M IM), Kim (16th 100M fly, 4th 50M fly), Rachel Kou (14th 100M back), Ritter (8th 200M back,16th 50M back, 7th 50M free), Sherratt (1st 200M fly, 7th 100M free, 1st 200M IM, 1st 50M fly, 3rd 100M back), Shae Trenery (12th 400M free, 9th 200M free).
15Over boys: B. Calderone (5th 200M fly, 15th 100M fly, 16th 50M fly, 13th 100M back), Corey Calderone (12th 400M free), Ian Dinesh (2nd 200M breast, 8th 50M breast, 6th 100M breast), Kyle Dripchak (13th 100M fly, 9th 200M free), Ben Fenandoe (12th 400M IM), Douglas Gee (13th 50M breast), Will Heinze (12th 200M back, 15th 200M free), Alex Holston (15th 400M IM), Lagrimas (4th 200M breast, 5th 50M breast, 14th 200M IM, 3rd 100M breast), Json Ma(9th, 200M back, 10th 100M back), McClure (2nd 400M free, 4th 50M back, 11th 200M IM, 6th 100M back, 7th 200M free), Sean Stanik (11th 200M back, 8th 50M back, 15th 100M back), Logan Swenson (6th 50M fly, 8th 50M free), Owen Waibel (14th 200M back, 10th 100M breast, 2nd 50M free).
Sunday sessions also swam a 200M medley relay. 10under girls (Bithun, G. Lukov, Manfredi and Mihansky) finished 4th, with boys (Liu, Yip, Piskadlo and Andreoli) – 3rd. The 11/12 girls (R. Ferreiro, Bickoff, Fevrier and Chung) once again placed 2nd. 13/14 girls (Kavanagh, Jiang, Yip and Llagan) finished 4th. And the boys (Achi Balakrishnan, Dupuis, Le and Mora) – 5th. 15O relay of Crall, Tessa DeGennaro, Kou and Amelia Nath finished 9th. And for the boys, Ma, Zac McGeehan, Stanik and Jayden Zheng, were 8th.
Congratulations, team FSPY on a great meet!
The Fanwood-Scotch Plains YMCA swim team is a year-round competitive team offering high-quality professional coaching and technique instruction. For more information, please contact Chris Karelus, Head Coach and Director of Competitive Aquatics at 908-889-8880 x 129 and at [email protected].
