10th-Straight New England Title

(Andover, MA) – Three weeks after achieving 87% personal best performances at Easterns, and two weeks after having many swimmers go even faster at the Exeter dual meet, Andover Swimming & Diving came together to achieve 88% personal best performances at New Englands, a remarkable feat that secured its 10^th consecutive New England Championship and 15^th since 2007.

To begin the highlights, Andover’s great senior class of David Frahm, Nick Koura, Woori Lee, Eric Nie, Oliver Stabach, and Ethan Zhu led the way in the meet, with all of them achieving best performances. The meet began with Lee, Zhu, Nie, and Koura each having best-ever splits in the 200 Medley Relay, and each went on to achieve best times in each of their two individual events. Stabach had his best performance ever in the 100 Free and was just off in the 200 Free, while Frahm had his highest diving score of his career.

Entering the season, Andover knew the loss of its three top breaststrokers with the Class of 2025 would need to be addressed. Here, too, this year’s seniors stepped up. Zhu, Lee, and Nie placed 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th in the event—each in a best time—and earned enough points to secure Andover’s team championship. It was Nie’s first time swimming the race in a championship meet as well as only the second time for Lee, and for Zhu, it had been two years since having a best time.

As the only swimmer to win every time he got in the water—100 Free, 100 Fly, 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay—Lincoln Tomlinson ’27 was awarded the Babcock Award as the outstanding swimmer of the meet in the men’s competition as selected by the league’s coaches. He joins other Andover winners of the award, all of whom won in their senior years: Mark List ’74, David Mainen ’89, Rob Hill ’91, TJ Durkin ’99, Juh Oh ’12, Christopher Xia ’23, and Raphael Sibuet ’24.

As he has been throughout the season, Tomlinson was joined in the 200 Free Relay by Jay Wei ’27, Cale Barker ’28, and Stabach. Following a 20.63 opening leg from Tomlinson, Wei dropped at 19.97 to become the first Andover swimmer under 20. Barker and Stabach followed, both splitting 20.28. With the 1:21.16, the relay established new New England, Meet, Pool, and School records, and the time would have placed third in the United States last year among all public and independent high school swimming teams.

Full results:

200 Medley Relay

Woori Lee ’26 (23.39) Personal Best
Ethan Zhu ’26 (25.86) Personal Best
Eric Nie ’26 (22.67) Personal Best
Nick Koura ’26 (20.29) Personal Best
1:32.21
2^nd Place
(6^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Gaven Morales ’29 (27.12) Personal Best
Soohan Cho ’29 (29.50) Personal Best
Ryan Loh ’28 (26.29) Personal Best
Owen Huang ’27 (22.42) Personal Best
1:45.33

200 Free

Oliver Stabach ‘26
1:39.72
2^nd Place
(4^th Fastest Performer Andover All Time)

Simba Xiong ‘28
1:45.81
1:44.87 (Prelims) Personal Best
8^th Place

Haoyu Zhang ‘27
1:46.78
1:45.31 (Prelims) Personal Best
13^th Place

Beckett Kavanagh ‘29
1:48.33 Personal Best
15^th Place (scratched finals due to league rules)

200 IM

Eric Nie ‘26
1:52.17
1:51.96 (Prelims) Personal Best
4^th Place
(8^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Woori Lee ‘26
1:52.24 Personal Best
5^th Place
(9^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Soohan Cho ‘29
2:01.10 Personal Best
15^th Place

Ian Kim ‘28
2:03.42 Personal Best
20^th Place

50 Free

Jay Wei ‘27
20.55 Personal Best
1^st Place
(T-3^rd Fastest Andover All Time)
UPPER RECORD

Cale Barker ‘28
20.86
20.67 (Prelims) Personal Best
2^nd Place
(T-7^th Fastest Andover All Time)
LOWER RECORD

Nick Koura ‘26
21.14 Personal Best
8^th Place
(T-13^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Owen Huang ‘27
23.32
30^th Place

100 Fly

Lincoln Tomlinson ‘27
48.35
48.17 (Prelims) Personal Best
1^st
(3^rd Fastest Andover All Time)
UPPER RECORD

Cale Barker ‘28
49.89 Personal Best
3^rd
(10^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Ethan Zhu ‘26
50.66
50.59 (Prelims) Personal Best
5^th
(14^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Gaven Morales ‘29
57.43 Personal Best
27^th

200 Freestyle Relay

Lincoln Tomlinson ’27 (20.63)
Jay Wei ’27 (19.97)
Cale Barker ’28 (20.28)
Oliver Stabach ’26 (20.28)
1:21.16
1st
NEW ENGLAND, MEET, POOL, SCHOOL RECORDS

Eric Chang ’28 (21.40) Personal Best
Ryan Loh ’28 (24.61) Personal Best
Beckett Kavanagh ’29 (22.83) Personal Best
Owen Huang ’27 (23.23)
1:32.07

100 Free

Lincoln Tomlinson ‘27
44.91
44.73 (Prelims) Personal Best
1^st
SCHOOL and UPPER RECORDS

Oliver Stabach ‘26
45.58
45.32 (Prelims) Personal Best
3^rd
(7^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Simba Xiong ‘28
47.27
47.03 (Prelims) Personal Best
10^th

Nick Koura ‘26
48.64 Personal Best
15^th (scratched finals due to league rules)

500 Free

Eric Chang ‘28
4:44.96 Personal Best
6^th
(17^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Beckett Kavanagh ‘29
4:49.12
10^th
(18^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Haoyu Zhang ‘27
4:53.06 Personal Best
13^th

Ryan Loh ‘28
5:19.97
24^th

Diving

David Frahm ‘26
328.80 Personal Best
5^th
(12^th Highest Andover All Time)

Victor Hillier ’28

288.80 Personal Best
9^th

Daniel Matloff ‘28
182.65 Personal Best
17^th

100 Back

Jay Wei ‘27
50.01 Personal Best
3^rd
(T-3^rd Fastest Andover All Time)

Eric Chang ‘28
51.46 Personal Best
5^th
(11^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Ian Kim ‘28
54.34 Personal Best
14^th

Gaven Morales ‘29
1:01.37
23^rd

100 Breast

Ethan Zhu ’26
57.36 Personal Best
4^th
(9^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Woori Lee ‘26
57.84 Personal Best
5^th
(13^th Fastest Andover All Time)

Eric Nie ‘26
57.97
57.83 (Prelims) Personal Best
6^th
(12^th Fastest Andover All Time)

400 Free Relay

Jay Wei ’27 (45.72) Personal Best
Lincoln Tomlinson ’27 (44.95)
Cale Barker ’28 (45.79) Personal Best
Oliver Stabach ’26 (45.12) Personal Best
3:01.58
1st
MEET and POOL RECORDS
(4^th Fastest Andover All Time – 3^rd fastest from Easterns)

Soohan Cho ‘29
Owen Huang ‘27
Haoyu Zhang ‘27
Gaven Morales ‘29
3:34.30

Team Scores

440.5 Andover
365 Brunswick

329 Choate

269 Exeter

186.5 Deerfield

174 Loomis

144 Hopkins

103 Northfield Mount Hermon

73 Hotchkiss

66 Suffield

55 Milton

28 St. Paul’s