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Section 5 Swimming Championships were decided Sunday, Feb.16,
at SUNY Brockport.
In the 200 medley relay, Fairport's Peter Koenig, Dylan Scheemaker, and Aram
Salehi swam personal bests and with help from by a good swim by Jake Fisher
took 3rd in a time of 1:41.00. Sophomore Jim Beaudry covered the 200
freestyle in 1:51.98 placing fifth in a strong field that had all of the top
four finishers swim state qualifying times.
Red Raider Jake Fisher broke through and swam a state qualifying time in the
200 individual medley, first in the preliminary Friday night and again on
Sunday, taking sixth in a time of 2:04.47.
Senior Aram Salehi took third place in the 50 freestyle in a personal best
time of 22.99. In the preliminaries of same event, Fairport's Scheemaker and
George Wasickanin also swam personal best times. Salehi was the Red Raider's
top finisher in the 100 freestyle swimming another personal best time of
50.95 in the preliminaries and placing first in the B grouping in the
finals.
Senior Jerry Woytash, in his last meet as a Raider, swam a personal best
time 5:13.12 which was good for first place in the B group. In the 200
freestyle relay, Salehi, Fisher and Scheemaker were helped by a personal
best time from Wasickanin as the team took fifth in 1:35.14.
Then Koenig earned third place for Fairport in the 100 back and he swam a
state qualifying time of 56.54 in the prelims.
In the next event, Fisher swam his second state qualifying finishing second
with a time of 1:01.08 in the 100 breast. In the same event Chris Razavi
swam a personal best 1:04.11 in the prelims and another strong swim earned
him fifth place in the finals.
Between the sectional preliminaries and finals, the Red Raider swimmers
recorded 23 personal best and eight of those swims by departing seniors,
Woytash (2), Salehi (3) and Wasickanin (3).
Originally published in the Perinton-Fairport Post
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