This weekend marks the end of the boys swimming and diving season, as the best in New York gather in hopes of one final trip to the podium.
Section V will be well-represented, with dozens of local swimmers set to compete.
Preliminary races and the diving championships take place on Friday, while final races are Saturday. All events are held at Ithaca College.
Section V has not won an event at states since 2023, when Pittsford’s 200 medley relay claimed the title. The last individual winner was also from Pittsford, when the Panthers’ Daley Fraser won the diving title in 2022.
Here are this weekend’s state championship participants (listed with seed times):
200 medley relay
Penfield (Riley Cialini, Deven Thettu, Paxton Marsh, Bobby Cordy) – 1:40.28
Pittsford (Kieran Savage, Kosta Oluic, Rigo Cunningham, Elliott Cunniffe) – 1:37.56
McQuaid (Ian Miller, Luke McCormack, Ben Hinds, Xavier Joseph) – 1:33.83
200 freestyle
Billy Sanderson, Pittsford – 1:43.73
Owen Rademacker, Naples – 1:44.81
Zach Shields, Victor – 1:45.68
Kosta Oluic, Pittsford – 1:46.00
Jake Thompson, Fairport – 1:46.35
Ryan Ni, Brighton – 1:46.44
Carter Fix, Byron-Bergen – 1:46.90
200 individual medley
Ben Hinds, McQuaid – 1:55.41
Adam Wakelee, Victor – 1:59.47
50 freestyle
Jack Frenzel, Webster – 20.79
Michael Kusch, Pittsford – 21.16
Chris Lewis, Rush-Henrietta – 21.31
Jack Roote, Fairport – 21.41
Elliott Cunniffe, Pittsford – 21.47
Xavier Joseph, McQuaid – 21.53
Peyton Conner, Gananda – 21.70
Ethan Hill, Hilton – 21.70
100 butterfly
Ian Miller, McQuaid – 50.60
Carlton Cabral, Brighton – 52.77
Paxton Marsh, Penfield – 53.34
Rigo Cunningham, Pittsford – 53.74
100 freestyle
Michael Kusch, Pittsford – 46.37
Jack Frenzel, Webster – 46.52
Luke McCormack, McQuaid – 47.10
Jack Roote, Fairport – 47.57
Peyton Conner, Gananda – 47.98
Ryan Ni, Brighton – 48.22
Billy Sanderson, Pittsford – 48.29
Ethan Hill, Hilton – 48.41
500 freestyle
Owen Rademacker, Naples – 4:43.00
George Newsome, Palmyra-Macedon – 4:43.70
Carter Fix, Byron-Bergen – 4:51.67
200 freestyle relay
McQuaid (Xavier Joseph, Ben Hinds, Luke McCormack, Ian Miller) – 1:24.90
Pittsford (Billy Sanderson, Elliott Cunniffe, Peiheng Liu, Michael Kusch) – 1:26.56
Fairport – 1:27.81
Webster (Joshua Weber, Caleb Carlton, Jack Frenzel, Dylan Rinker) – 1:28.52
100 backstroke
Carlton Cabral, Brighton – 52.60
George Newsome, Palmyra-Macedon – 52.35
Zach Shields, Victor – 53.66
Chris Lewis, Rush-Henrietta – 53.76
Kieran Savage, Pittsford – 54.20
100 breaststroke
Kosta Oluic, Pittsford – 57.81
Eli Dobbs, RCSD United/Aquinas – 58.63
400 freestyle relay
Pittsford (Michael Kusch, Billy Sanderson, Kieran Savage, Kosta Oluic) – 3:12.38
Webster (Joshua Weber, Jack Frenzel, Caleb Carlton, Dylan Rinker) – 3:16.64
McQuaid (Xavier Joseph, Ben Hinds, Luke McCormack, Ian Miller) – 3:10.49
Fairport – 3:17.58
Brighton (Ryan Ni, Carlton Cabral, Lucas Clause, Maddox Haelen) – 3:17.63
Diving
Isaac Bailey, Churchville-Chili
Eli Hyer, Canandaigua
Gionni Rota-Lafex, Brockport
Caden Setzer, Hilton
Charles Dovichi, Honeoye Falls-Lima
Rishaan Shah, Penfield
Jordan Leastman, Churchville-Chili
Kyler Thomas, Churchville-Chili
— Justin Ritzel works as a sports reporter for the Democrat and Chronicle, with a focus on Section V athletics and high school trends.
This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Dozens from Section V set for state boys swimming meet
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