2007 Banquet

Swimming teams hold banquet

The Fairport Swimming and Diving banquet was held on March 14 at Eagle Vale
Golf Club.

Before the banquet began, the audience was treated to a video of pictures from the season, courtesy of Brandon Georger.

Director of Fairport Athletics, Jim Zumbo kicked off the festivities. The Red Raiders
had much to celebrate. Highlights of the season include: a regular season record of 8-4; winning the Spencerport Relay Invitational for the 24th time; taking second at Section 5 class A sectionals; taking a first (100 breaststroke – Jake Fisher) and a second (200 medley relay – Peter Koenig, Fisher, Dylan Scheemaker and Jim
Beaudry) at the NY State Championship meet; Five All-Americans (Fisher- twice,
Koenig, Scheemaker, Beaudry); Academic Excellence Award and an undefeated
junior varsity season.

Coach Steve Hawkins-Rusch introduced the JV team and summarized their season and their vast number of best times.

He then handed out the JV awards: the JV Shark award went to Andrew Koenig; the Most Improved Swimmer award to Sean Keyes and the Most Valuable Swimmer award to Tyler Benson.

Coach Mike Kennedy introduced the varsity team and presented each of them with a
letter or a service bar.

Swimmers and divers awarded with a letter were: Jordan Ingerick; Matt McGrath; Jake Robbins and Dhruv Tyagi. Swimmers earning a service bar were: Jim Beaudry, Jake Fisher, Connor Harrington, Nate Jones, Kyle Kauffman, Peter Koenig, Brendan McLaughlin, Kyle Mihaljevic, Chris Razavi, Aria Salehi, Dylan Scheemaker and Jon
Steffen.

Coach Kennedy announced the swimmers/divers named to the All-County team. Second Team All-County: Connor Harrington; Nate Jones; Kyle Mihaljevic and Jon Steffen. First Team All-County: Jim Beaudry; Jake Fisher; Peter Koenig; Chris Razavi; Dylan Scheemaker and Dhruv Tyagi.

The captains, Chris Razavi and Jake Fisher provided some levity to the evening during the presentation of the paper plate awards. No one was left out as the captains regaled the audience with funny stories from the season.

Coach Dave Salmon summarized the diving season and presented the Springboard
award to Dhruv Tyagi.

Kennedy followed with the rest of the awards presenting the Most Improved Swimmer
award to Connor Harrington; Most Valuable Swimmer award to Jake Fisher; Spark Plug award to Nate Jones; Red Raider award to Jake Fisher; Scholarship award to Jake Fisher and the Scholastic award to Chris Razavi.

The Spark Plug award and Red Raider award recipients will represent the boys’ swim team at the Fairport Sports Banquet in the spring.

The captains then passed the towel (with the names of past captains from 1979 to current) to next year’s leaders – Peter Koenig and Dylan Scheemaker.

The evening ended with the coaching staff and the team wishing the graduating seniors success in their college years: Jake Fisher at Cornell; Chris Razavi at Johns Hopkins and Colin Endsley undecided.

Originally published in the Perinton-Fairport Post.

2007