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Grant Pierce ’15
James Granruth ’15
Swimming A Noble Inaugural Season
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times of Brunswick • Spring 2013
Nelson Vargas ’16
Brunswick’s inaugural swim team
Alex Prout ’15, and Pat Stefanou ’16,
Championships. Eric Ronda ’13,
made its school proud, as the group
they consistently swam faster
who brought a wealth of experience
of 30 young men competed nobly
times and pushed their competitors
to the team this year and will
each time it dove into the pool at
to the limit.
continue his career at Harvard,
the Greenwich YMCA.
established a new Division I meet
at Hopkins in late February,
record in the 100 Breaststroke and
season’s focal point. Instead,
Brunswick finished tenth out
earned All-America status.
coaches Eric Tillman and Elizabeth
of twelve teams. All swimmers
Laidlaw concentrated on improving
participated, most of whom
Profaci had worthy performances
times, strokes, and conditioning
improved on their personal best
as well, deserving recognition for
with each new practice and meet.
times to secure the respectable
their unselfish commitment to such
By year’s end, all involved could
result against a host of far more
a young team.
accurately claim that the team
experienced swimming programs.
exceeded expectations and set a
Brunswick swimmers. With the
foundation on which it can build
the other coaches at the event was
majority returning next winter, the
when Brunswick returns to the pool
that Brunswick is well on its way
Bruins will seek further success.
in November.
to building a formidable aquatics
In the final season before a state-
squad,” Coach Tillman reported.
of-the-art natatorium opens on
meets at Canterbury, Kent, Hamden
King Street in the fall of 2014, the
Hall, Cheshire, and Hopkins. Led
Brunswick swimmers travelled
Brown and Gold appear primed
by tri-captains Sander Profaci ’13,
to Deerfield for the New England
to do just that.
Wins and losses weren’t the
The Bruins hit the road for
At the Bud Erich Championship
“The overall sentiment from
To conclude the season, nine
Fellow seniors Ian Ronda and
It’s onward and upward for the
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