Swimming and Diving BV at Deerfield

Many Season Bests in Final Preparation for Easterns

(Deerfield, MA) – With just two weeks until the start of the Eastern Championships, Andover traveled to Deerfield for one final chance to practice those elements upon which the team has focused. Across the day, there were many season-best and even personal-best performances.

200 Medley Relay

1^st Marcel Liu ’23 (25.40) personal best

Arnold Su ’20 (26.60) personal best

Sam Donchi ’20 (23.29) personal best

Max Hunger ’20 (21.27)

1:36.56

2^nd Hank Yang ’22 (28.61) personal best

Brandon Garcia ’20 (27.70) personal best

Anthony Minickiello ‘ 20 (25.03)

Marcus Lee ’21 (21.54)

1:42.88

4^th Gregor Deveau ’21 (28.22) personal best

Brendon Fang ’22 (28.82)

Yubo Jin ’21 (25.59) personal best

Alexander Grande ’21 (22.78)

1:45.41

200 Freestyle

1^st Christopher Xia ’23 1:46.69 personal best

2^nd Ralph Lam ’22 1:49.56 personal best

3^rd Jay Pae ’23 1:52.14 personal best

EX Trey Wolfe ’23 1:56.61 personal best

200 Individual Medley

1^st Donchi 1:55.65

2^nd Garcia 1:58.39 personal best

3^rd Max Fang ’22 2:03.90

EX Riku Tanaka ’20 2:03.02 personal best

50 Freestyle

1^st Hunger 21.88 season best

2^nd Liu 22.97

3^rd Grande 23.16

EX Jin 24.70

Diving

1^st Zack Peng ’21 271.28

4^th Bennett Pease ’21 123.61

100 Butterfly

1^st Su 50.98

2^nd Donchi 51.60

3^rd Xia 53.63 personal best

EX B. Fang 57.86 personal best

100 Freestyle

1^st Lee 47.25 season best

3^rd Lam 49.89

4^th Jin 51.20 personal best

EX Deveau 52.81 season best

500 Freestyle

1^st Minickiello 4:50.19

2^nd Tanaka 4:56.83 season best

3^rd Yang 5:04.45

EX Pae 5:01.66 personal best

200 Freestyle Relay

1^st Xia (23.10) personal best

Lee (21.60)

M. Fang (23.70)

Donchi (21.60) season best

2^nd Wolfe (23.52)

Grande (22.78)

Jin (23.45)

Lam (22.80)

100 Backstroke

1^st Garcia 53.82 personal best

2^nd Su 54.35 1^st time swimming it

3^rd Liu 56.78

EX Minickiello 1:01.38 1^st time swimming it

100 Breaststroke

1^st Hunger 59.05 personal best

2^nd B. Fang 1:02.20

3^rd M. Fang 1:04.01

EX Deveau 1:06.09

400 Freestyle Relay

1^st Wolfe (51.29) season best

Su (46.24) season best

Tanaka (49.58) season best

Pae (51.79) personal best

3:18.90

2^nd Yang (53.18) season best

Lee (46.80) season best

Grande (52.36)

Minickiello (52.00)

EX Liu (52.81)

Xia (50.30)

Lam (49.99)

M. Fang (51.76)

3:24.86

(Photo: Hank Yang '22, who had season-best performances)