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« Banner Year for Academy Appointments | Main | FUMA Dominates in State Indoor Track Meet »

FUMA Swimming & Diving finishes 4th in State Championship

For the first time in recent history the Fork Union Military Academy Blue Devils broke into the top 10 teams in the state championship final standings, finishing 4th overall!

"I'm especially proud of how our young men came together as a team to accomplish this leap in standings (from 12th place last year), as was evident by our fantastic relay swims," states Coach Jim Bocci. "We started the meet as a huge underdog in the 200 medley relay with a group of virtually unknown swimmers seeded four seconds out of the top spot." It was going to be a struggle just to make the finals, but when the smoke cleared the team finished second overall with a time of 1:38.91 (K. Housh 26.59, S. Ibrahim 26.78, M. Jewell 23.69, T. Calhoun 21.85) - this smashed our school record by over three seconds!

For an encore the 200 free relay duplicated this same feat, again finishing second and destroying the school record with a time of 1:28.61 (M. Jewell 22.37, B. Reynard 22.65, S. Ibrahim 21.47, T. Calhoun 22.12). Finally, in the 400 free relay, composed of all underclassmen, finished eighth in the championship final with a new school record time of 3:28.90 (K. Housh, J. Warren, J. Caudill, B. Reynard). This marked the first time that FUMA placed all three relays in the championship final.

In addition to the team's incredible relay efforts, there were several great individual swims including M. Jewell (7th, 50 freestyle; 8th, 100 butterfly), K. Housh (8th, 200 IM; 10th, 100 breaststroke), S. Ibrahim (16th, 100 freestyle, 6th, 100 breaststroke), T. Calhoun (9th, 50 freestyle), B. Reynard (16th, 50 freestyle), and J. Brown (13th, 100 breaststroke). The meet also marked the championship debut for freshman C. Covington (PB times in the 200 and 500 freestyle), juniors J. Warren (PB time in the 200 freestyle) and J. Caudill (PB time 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly), and 8th grader Obi Okeyo (PB time in the 100 back).

Other notable swims came from veteran Junior J. Gencavage (PB times in the 200 IM and 100 fly). In all the Blue Devil team broke six school records.

Courtesy of Coach Jim Bocci

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 03:21 PM
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