Over the past weekend, Badger Swim Club was represented at the New York State Swimming and Diving Federation and Public High School Championships in Buffalo NY. Badger swimmers represented Fordham Prep, Scarsdale High School, and Rye High School.
Highlights from the weekend were the top 24 place finishes from the Badger swimmers that participated in the meet.
Individual scorers in the meet consisted of Spencer LaFata of Fordham Prep 2nd place in the 200 Freestyle (1:40.52) and Josh Hendell of Scarsdale coming in 10th (1:43.14).
In the 200 IM Scarsdale’s David Bravo was 13th with a time of 1:58.57.
Christian Huber representing Rye took 12th in the 50 Freestyle with a time of 21.68.
In the 100 Butterfly Aristides Speres of Fordham Prep took 11th place with a time of 51.45.
Huber came back with a 10th place finish in the 100 freestyle with a time of 47.50.
In the 500 Freestyle Badger was represented by Spencer Lafata who was 1st overall with a time of Automatic All American time of 4:27.02, Josh Hendell taking third with a time of 4:33.52 and John ( Jack) Loveless 4:42.74.
Badger swimmers along with a strong showing in the individual events, played a big part in the relay events of the meet.
The start of the meet, Aristedes swam the Butterfly leg of the 5th place Fordham Prep 200 Medley Relay, Hendell also aided his school swimming the Breaststroke leg of Scarsdales 12th place Medley Relay.
The 200 Freestyle Relay was another showing for Fordham Prep with Speres and LaFata teaming up to come in 4th overall while Huber swimming on the Rye Relay came in 17th overall.
In the In the 400 Freestyle Relay the final event of the meet the team of Haofenj Liu, Bravo, and Hendell aided Scarsdale in playing 9th overall while the pair of Aristides Speres and Spencer Lafata made up 2 parts of the winning 400 Freestyle Relay capping off a great weekend for swimming.
Congratulations to all the Badger Swimmers who swam and return to training this week.
