Swimming and Diving BV vs Phillips Exeter Academy

Andover Defeats Exeter for 20th Consecutive Year

(Andover, MA) – For the 20^th consecutive year, the Andover Boys’ Swimming & Diving team was able to hold off an always strong squad from our neighbors up north.

This year’s meet again combined the “varsity” and “junior varsity” competitions with the same swimming coaching staff—David Fox, David Gardner, Hillary Kavanagh, Eliot Davenport—leading both.

In the “junior varsity” competition, Andover performed remarkably well as swimmers raced in their final meet of the season. Andover won the competition 118-45.

Some highlights:

Michael Bria ’27 and Enrique Mercado ’27 raced their first 100 Freestyles ever, while Merson Tang ’29 did his first 500!

14 other non-seniors achieved at least one best time: Joao Carreiro ’27, Connor Chen ’29, Carlos de Siqueira-Castro ’27, Lane Fender ’29, Travis Guan ’29, Phillip Jeong ’27, Cyrus Law ’27, Benjamin Levchin ’28, Gaven Morales ’29, Jacob Shin ’29, Cooper Simon ’28, Alex Tong ’29, Dean Vaitsos ’27, and Bruce Xiong ’29. Unfortunately, Carter Chen ’28 had to miss the meet.

The seniors in the meet also swam great with many best times. Nathan Egbuna has taken more than 5 seconds off his 100 Free as a member of the team; Vincent Giancola has taken more than 21! Haesou Im started racing the 200 IM in his final season and dropped more than 7 seconds in three months. Alex Ren and Will Sueling had great seasons. Co-Captain David Porto ended his career having dropped more than 42 seconds in the 500 Free since 9^th grade!

In the “varsity” competition, Andover swam very well with many swimmers racing faster than they did at Easterns last week.

Folks who had at least one best time: Cale Barker ’28, Eric Chang ’28, Soohan Cho ’29, Owen Huang ’28, Beckett Kavanagh ’29, Ian Kim ’28, Nick Koura ’26, Ryan Loh ’28, Jay Wei ’27, Simba Xiong ’28, and Haoyu Zhang ’27. Eric Nie ’26 had his best dual-meet performances ever in the 200 IM and 500 Free. Co-Captains Woori Lee ’26 and Ethan Zhu ’26 swam well, earning valuable points. And Brandon Xu ’26, who is running the Omega timing system for us this year as a manager, swam his first 100 Breast.

In the diving competition, Captain David Frahm '26, Victor Hillier '28, and Daniel Matloff '28 performed well, each scoring points in the competition. They are coached by Belinda Wolf.

In the 200 Freestyle, Co-Captain Oliver Stabach ’26 broke Max Hunger’s Meet record with a 1:40.27, which is faster than he swam last week.

In the 100 Freestyle, Lincoln Tomlinson ’27 broke Raphael Sibuet’s Meet record with a 45.02.

In the 200 Freestyle Relay, Tomlinson, Wei, Barker, and Stabach broke Exeter’s Meet record as well as Brunswick’s Pool record in a zippy 1:22.43.

Complete meet results are available here.