New Canaan meet Rescheduled!

This meet has been rescheduled to Thursday, February 5th, still at Staples @3:45pm.

Calendar Correction On Danbury Meet

This meet is on Wednesday, February 11th at Staples.

Important Championship Information!

Yale has just notified CIAC that the pool will be shut for maintenance the night scheduled for the State Open (March 21st). Therefore, please note these important date and place changes:

March 17th-LL State Swimming Finals, now at Yale. Warmups at 6pm; Meet starts at 7pm.

March 19th-State Open Swim meet, still at Yale. Warmups at 6pm; Meet starts at 7pm.

Prelims will remain the same as scheduled for March 14th.

Diving trials and divisional championships remain the same. The State Diving Open will be on March 18th at Yale with warmups at 4pm and finals at 6pm.

Wreckers Splash Trumbull

By Eliot Schickler

Jan. 21 - The Staples High boys swimming team is building towards its big meets. Seven Staples swimmers have qualified for the Class LL meet and seven more Wreckers are knocking on the door.

Staples took a step in qualifying more for States while preparing for tough dual meet competition Friday in its 102-73 win at Trumbull High and raised its record to 2-1. Trumbull dropped to 0-5.

“It was good to be back on the winning side of things after the Greenwich meet,” said Wreckers coach Jeff Schare.

Senior quad-captains Chris Wiederecht, Jeffrey Helt, Stefan Tziolis and Nick Pulvino along with junior Stephan DeLuca and sophomores Cory Bacon and Zach Slater have already qualified for Class LL. Inching closer towards joining them are senior Brian Rackson, juniors Brody McConnell, Larry Abel, Mac Mom-bello, Trevor Lally and Cameron Bruce and freshman Matt Wisher.

“I think we’re looking strong,” said Wiederecht. “It bodes well for the future because it shows how deep we are and what we can potentially do. Our hard work is paying off.”

Tziolis said, “We’re definitely training very hard so more people could make the State team and we’ll do better than we did in past years.”

Wiederecht won all four events he was in against the Golden Eagles, starting with the 200-yard medley relay (1:52.61) where he swam the second leg. Bacon led off the relay, Lally swam the third leg and Tziolis anchored it.

Three-fourths of the winning medley relay team won the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:35.53) with Helt joining Wiederecht, Lally and Bacon. Abel, senior Adam Goltzer, freshman Josephine Grevers and Wisher were on the second place 200-free relay team (1:47.49).

Wiederecht won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.2 seconds. “I’ve been doing a lot of sprint work in practice and I was ready to go,” said Wiederecht. “I’m bigger and stronger from last year and I went in with a lot of confidence.”

Lally (24.58) was third and sophomore Michael Good-game (24.9) was fourth in the 50-free.

Wiederecht also won the 100-yard breaststroke. “It’s an event I don’t swim often and I tried to help the team wherever it’s needed,” said Wiederecht.

Sophomores Sikam He (1:12.60) and Michael Good-game (1:14.70) took second and third in the 100-breast.

Tziolis (54.34) won the 100-yard freestyle and was followed by Lally (55.95) and Grevers (59.33), who were third and fifth, respectively.

“I normally don’t swim it because I’m not a freestyler,” said Tziolis. “I worked on sprinting techniques in practice and put it to use in the 100-free.”

In the 100-yard backstroke, Tziolis (1:02.52) won, Rackson (1:07.17) took third and Abel was fourth.

“I’ve been training in the backstroke for awhile,” said Tziolis. “It’s my favorite stroke and I was consistent.”

Bacon grabbed his first victory in the 200-yard individual medley (2:10.25). Rackson (2:21.22) and freshman Joss Abel (2:21.71) were three-four in the 200-IM.

“It mostly came from Water Rat practice and tapering last Wednesday,” said Bacon.

His second victory came in the 100-yard butterfly (56.27). Larry Abel (1:01.48) and Wisher (1:02.71) were three-four in the 100-fly.

“The Trumbull swimmer pushed me to win and I went into full gear,” said Bacon. “Jeff [Schare] pushed me and told me to have my best time.”

Wisher won the 200-yard freestyle (2:00.68), edging out McConnell (2:00.70), who took second. Helt (2:02.80) was fourth. Slater won diving (1813.15) with a personal best and junior Matt Mirkine (101.85) was second. McConnell took second in the 500-yard freestyle (5:19.86) as he was edged out by Trumbull’s Nick Targonski (5:19.80). Helt (5:40.98) was fourth.

Trumbull won the 400-yard freestyle relay. Helt, Wisher, Larry Abel and Tziolis carried the 400-free relay team to second place (3:42.62).

The Wreckers hope to improve in their dual meets and have more people qualify for Class LL.

“We knew we’d beat Fairfield and Trumbull and Greenwich was out of reach,” said Schare. “Now we’ll have to get up to race in the other meets if we want to win them.”

Reprinted from The Westport News

Danbury Meet Time Change**Now at Staples!

Please note that the time for the Danbury meet has been changed to a 4pm start. Further Update:The meet will be AT STAPLES!

Ridgefield Meet Rescheduled!

The Ridgefield meet has been rescheduled to Wednesday,February 25th, still at home. Since this will be both the last home meet of the season, it will also be Senior Day.

Yet Another Meet Change!

The meet at Danbury has been moved back one night to Tuesday, February 10th at 5:30 pm. The pasta dinner planned for that night at the Wiederecht’s will be changed and will be announced ASAP.

IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE!

The meet against Westhill has been moved to Monday, January 26, still at Staples. If anyone has a conflict with this date please notify Jeff ASAP!

Dates and Times You Need to Know!

-The Weston meet has been changed to Monday, February 2nd at 4pm, still at Weston.

-Practices next week during mid-terms will be 1-3:30pm.

-The meet at Trumbull on January 16th is on the makeup day for mid-terms. The bus will leave from the pool at 2:15pm. Please be on time.