Photos: Guilderville Makes Splashes To States
On Friday and Saturday, Feb. 17 and 18, the Guilderville boys’ swim team competed in the Section 2 swimming championships at Shenendehowa High School. The team finished fifth overall with 253.5 points and qualified three individual swimmers and two relay teams for states.
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Casual swim: Guilderville’s Thomas Zeliph performs the backstroke portion in the 200-yard individual medley preliminary race. Zeliph finished seventh in his heat and 21st overall with a time of 2:12.81.
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Hydroplaning: Guilderville’s Caleb Doney comes up to get a breath of air while throwing water back in the 100-yard butterfly preliminary. Doney finished third in his heat and 26th overall with a time of 1:08.94.
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Powerful swat: Guilderville’s Alexander Zhang gets a breath of air while swimming in the 100-yard butterfly preliminary. Zhang finished sixth in his heat and 17th overall with a time of 1:00.66.
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Making waves: Guilderville’s Brodie Steele gets a breath as he swims fast in the 100-yard freestyle. Steele finished sixth in his heat and 19th overall with a time of 53.23.
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Coming to the finish: Guilderville’s Jason Zeliph turns his head for a breath as he comes towards the end of his 100-yard freestyle heat. Zeliph finished second with a time of 50.25 and then on Saturday finished seventh on Saturday overall with a time of 50 seconds.
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Pacing himself: Guilderville’s Demetrio Schiavone looks to get a breath of air as he swims in the 500-yard freestyle heat. Schiavone finished sixth in his heat and 29th overall with a time of 6:15.61.
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Off and swimming: Guilderville’s Eric Ryan leaps from the starting block as Jason Zeliph touches the wall in the 200-yard freestyle Relay. The relay team won the heat with a time of 1:29.29 and won the sectional title and New York State qualifying time of 1:28.11.
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Water a flying: Guilderville’s Bao Nguyen swims towards the finish in the 100-yard backstroke preliminary. Nguyen finished in second in his heat with a time of 57.16 then on Saturday finished seventh overall with a time of 57.12.
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Lift off: Guilderville’s Isak Brkanovic pushes off the starting block as he gets ready to land in the water in the 100-yard breaststroke. Brkanovic finished second in his heat with a time of 1:00.76 then on Saturday finished third overall and a New York State qualifying time of 1:00.44.
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Water falls from his face as Guilderville’s Isak Brkanovic comes up to get some air.
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Let’s go! Guilderville’s Isak Brkanovic yells at his teammates as Brodie Steele leaps into the water and Eric Ryan touches the wall in the 200-yard Medley Relay finals. The relay team won with a time of 1:38.72.
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Coming in fast: Guilderville’s Vincent Coppola picks up speed in the 200-yard freestyle championship on Saturday. Coppola finished second with a time of 1:45.40 and qualified for states in the event and the 100-yard freestyle.
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Leaping to states: Guilderville’s Eric Ryan jumps from the starting board as he starts in the championship 200-yard individual medley. Ryan finished third with a time of 1:55.77. Ryan will compete in the 200-yard IM, 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard breaststroke in individual events.
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Big breath: Guilderville’s Eric Ryan comes up for air while doing the breaststroke portion in the 200-yard individual medley.