Swimming and Diving BV vs Choate

Andover Opens Season with Great Times and Two Pool Records

(Andover, MA) – Having just completed the most challenging stretch of training in the past fifteen years of Andover Swimming & Diving—including a training camp in Miami over the holidays—the team opened the 2020 campaign with many strong performances against Choate.

This season, Andover welcomes eight rookies: Johann Asmus Leon ’20, Gregor Deveau ’21, Brandon Garcia ’20, Alexander Grande ’21, Marcel Liu ’23, Jay Pae ’23, Christopher Xia ’23, and Trey Wolfe ’23. They join co-captains Sam Donchi ’20 and Arnnold Su ’20 as well as other returners Brendon Fang ’22, Max Fang ’22, Max Hunger ’20, Yubo Jin ’21, Ralph Lam ’22, Marcus Lee ’21, Anthony Minickiello ’20, Bennett Pease ’21, Zack Peng ’21, Riku Tanaka ’20, and Hank Yang ’22.

Certainly, a highlight of the day was the performance of co-captain Arnold Su ’20, who broke pool records in the 200 IM—surpassing the standard set by Exeter’s Mike McLean in 2001—and the 100 Freestyle. In the latter, Su lowered his own mark. With the 200 IM record, Andover now holds all the records in its home pool for the first time since at least 1983.

Because today’s meet was the lone home stand for the Girls’ Varsity Team, we held our annual “senior recognition” to boot.

200 Medley Relay

1^st Minikiello (27.44)

Jin (26.23)

Liu (23.52)

Grande (22.41)

1:39.60

3^rd Yang (28.64)

B. Fang (28.37)

Xia (24.28)

Lam (21.80)

1:43.09

4^th M. Fang (28.80)

Wolfe (29.29)

Pae (29.56)

Deveau (22.43)

1:50.08

200 Freestyle

1^st Hunger (1:41.63)

2^nd Lee (1:45.31)

3^rd Tanaka (1:50.27)

EX Lam (1:51.61)

EX M. Fang (1:52.76)

EX Yang (1:53.01)

200 Individual Medley

1^st Su (1:53.77) POOL RECORD

2^nd Donchi (1:54.22)

3^rd Garcia (2:00.06)

EX Xia (1:58.63)

EX B. Fang (2:02.38)

EX Deveau (2:09.66)

50 Freestyle

1^st Liu (22.90)

2^nd Grande (23.27)

3^rd Jin (23.28)

EX Minickiello (23.20)

EX Wolfe (23.58)

EX Pae (24.58)

Diving

1^st Peng (301.85)

3^rd Asmus Leon (155.75)

5^th Pease (134.85)

100 Butterfly

1^st Su (50.72)

2^nd Liu (52.59)

3^rd Minikiello (54.62)

100 Freestyle

1^st Lee (47.40)

2^nd Garcia (47.61)

6^th Grande (52.12)

500 Freestyle

1^st Tanaka (4:58.77)

2^nd M. Fang (5:04.97)

3^rd Pae (5:07.09)

200 Freestyle Relay

1^st Hunger (22.00)

Garcia (21.94)

Lee (xx)

Su (xx)

1:26.22

3^rd Lam (23.32)

Jin (22.56)

Grande (22.87)

Minickiello (23.08)

100 Backstroke

1^st Donchi (52.97)

2^nd Yang (1:00.86)

3^rd Deveau (1:02.15)

100 Breaststroke

1^st Xia (58.57)

2^nd B. Fang (1:01.47)

3^rd Wolfe (1:06.18)

400 Freestyle Relay

1^st Hunger (47.02)

Garcia (47.44)

Xia (48.56)

Yang (52.33)

2^nd Su (46.48) POOL RECORD

Lee (47.67)

Liu (50.47)

Deveau (51.83)

3^rd Donchi (49.08)

Tanaka (50.89)

Lam (50.09)

M. Fang (50.90)

Final Score:

Andover – 142

Choate – 44

Andover’s next interscholastic competition will be Friday, 17 January 2020 at home against perennial Massachusetts State Champion St. John’s Prep. This will be the final home meet for Andover this year. The following day, Andover will travel to Suffield to face the host as well as national powerhouse Peddie.