2018-2019 Boys Swimming & Diving

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Newington sees strong swims from Fote and Olandt in loss to Bristol.
Junior Luke Fote and Senior Captain Joey Olandt had strong individual performances in a difficult meet against the Bristol Co-op team. Both Fote and Olandt had best times in the 200 medley relay, finishing second by just 5 tenths of a second along with Tre Bucchi and Maks Ugrak (1:49.87). Senior Captain Patrick Juvencio saw a season best time in the 200 IM (2:24.47), taking second place, while Fote had a lifetime best in the 50 free (25.18), finishing third. Divers John Famiglietti and Andriy Grynyk finished first and second respectively for the second time this season. Juvencio took third in the 100 fly, while Eric Tran saw a lifetime best of 1:19.82 for a fourth place finish. Ugrak (53.74) and Fote (54.97) then finished first and second in the 100 free. Olandt had a strong performance in the 100 breast with a time of 1:14.90, while Matt Montano finished only two seconds away from a lifetime best with a 1:24.16.

Strong team performance leads to win over Simsbury.
Newington had contributions from many different in athletes in the team win over Simsbury. The medley relay team of Tre Bucchi, Joey Olandt, Patrick Juvencio, and Maks Ugrak opened the meet with a first place finish (1:53.36). Michael Bohlke (2:07.31) and Luke Fote (2:07.54) then took second and third in the 200 free, while Juvencio (2:26.70) and Sean Vasi (2:30.64) took first and second in the 200 IM and Bucchi (24.81) took second in the 50 free. Newington's divers competed against a strong Simsbury dive team, and John Famiglietti took third place with a score of 170.50. Ugrak (58.44) and Juvencio (1:04.82) took first and second in the 100 fly, while Fote (54.89) took second in the 100 free. Newington took first, second, and third in the 500 free with Nick Jirku (5:47.41), Bohlke (5:51.29) and Vasi (5:52.66). In the 100 back, Bucchi (1:02.05) took first while Nick Goegel (1:10.01) took third. Ugrak (1:08.76) then guaranteed Newington's win with a first place finish in the 100 breast.

Divers shine, take first and second, as Newington falls to Conard.
Newington's divers, John Famiglietti and Andriy Grynyk took first and second place in diving, with Famiglietti reaching an automatic state qualifying cut. Maks Ugrak had a strong second place finish in the 200 free (1:57.36), while Salvo Scata took second place in the 50 free (25.14). Michael Bohlke (5:50.57) and Sean Vasi (5:50.98) both had impressive performances in the 500 free, taking third and fourth place respectively. Newington had three strong swims in the 100 back with Tre Bucchi taking first place (1:06.08), and Nick Jirku (1:11.62) and Nick Goegel (1:11.65) taking third and fourth respectively.

Newington opens the season with a win over Manchester.
Newington opened the first meet of the season with a strong first place finish from the medley relay team of Tre Bucchi, Joey Olandt, Patrick Juvencio, and Maks Ugrak. Bucchi had an impressive meet with two first place finishes in the 50 free (24.99) and 100 back (1:04.04). Ugrak took first place in the 100 free with an automatic state qualifying time of 52.69, while Sean Vasi (6:03.99) and Michael Bohlke (6:10.67) took first and second place respectively in the 500 free. The 200 freestyle relay also finished first with the team of Luke Fote, Juvencio, Salvo Scata, and Ugrak. Other notable races included second place finishes from Fote in the 200 free (2:09.95), Juvencio in the 200 IM (2:27.11), and Scata in the 50 free (25.08) and 100 fly (1:05.14). Ugrak also had a second state qualifying time in the 100 breast with a time of 1:06.33.