Winter Sports Round-Up 2016
Squash 8-2: We had a great season overall, with several players making great personal achievements. Joseph Kim ’16 has really improved over the years and finished his last squash season at LFA with no losses in the 1-to-1 matches. Julia Gilette ’16 signed to play squash at Stanford University, and only had one loss while playing male players twice her size. Nubia Beasly-Bartee ’16 will play for Bates College and ended the season as our sixth best player. Ian Thauer ’17 only had one loss as well.
Boys Swimming 11-0: We started off the season with a tight win over King High School. The boys then broke various school records during the next meet against Rockford Christian. River Lund ’16 broke the record for backstroke, Ryan Wong ’16 broke the record for breaststroke, Milo Green ’16 broke the record for butterfly stroke, and Jackson Bedward ’17 broke the record for freestyle stroke. Rockford Christian closed the gap a few times, but we sealed the deal by winning the 400 Freestyle Relay.
The students were always eager to work hard despite difficult training routines. We had a bittersweet loss at the Metro Squash Invitational in early February, but they put on some great performances.
Our third meet was a tri-meet against Whitnall and Milwaukee-Lutheran. The lead was exchanged multiple times during the meet, but we came out on top (114-108-84). We broke the school record in the 400 Freestyle Relay with a time of 3:47.93. We won our next three meets handily without much opposition. For our last meet of the season, we swam against Taft High School. They were their conference champions, but we won the meet by a wide margin. Jackson Bedward broke the school record in the 200 Individual Medley with a time of 2:19.52 and Milo Green also came close to a second record in the 100 Butterfly with a time of 1:01.35.
Ford Johnstone ’16 was the captain and really set the tone for the team, emphasizing community and not just focusing on winning a game. They’re a close-knit group. These players think and act like skilled, passionate athletes. They are dedicated and have a love for the sport, which is great to see as their coach. —Coach Darius Ivaska
We knew we were going to be a good team this year, but I don’t think any of us expected to go undefeated. The boys swim season this year seems unreal! —Coach Brian Sheu (Top Row l to r) Sarah Hershenhorn ’17, Colin Moody ’16, Zhaoqi (George) Wang ’18, Coach Darius Ivaska, Nathaniel Shattock ’17, Charlie Shattock ’19, Hongyue (Kori) Zhang ’17 (Middle Row l to r) Grace Rempala ’17, Zhefeng (Edwin) Wang ’18, Nubia Beasley-Bartee ’16, Raymond Yang ’18, David Krivoshik ’18, Justin Hone ’18 (Bottom Row l to r) Yoo Kyung Lee ’18, John Lee ’18, Ford Johnstone ’16, Joseph Kim ’16, Julia Gillette ’16. Not pictured: Sasha (Alexandra) Bilinkis ’17, Christian Challenger ’17, Lucas Jacob ’17, Ian Thauer ’17 Photo: Scott Wallem
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(Top l to r) Head Coach Brian Sheu, Milo Green ’16, Ross Reid-Anderson ’16, Joo Ho Park ’18, Jack Shaughnessy ’16, Assistant Coach Natalie Schawel (Upper Middle l to r) Julia Knauz ’19, Courtney Bradac ’18, Kayrat Bektemirov ’18, Keon Farhood ’19, Haotian (Caleb) Ye ’18, Zongyun (Oscar) Li ’19, Shreya Singhvi ’18 (Lower Middle l to r) Jackson Bedward ’17, Yongqing (Ryan) Wong ’16, Yaokun (Clint) Shi ’18, Anran Hu ’16, Ziting Huang ’18, Dmytro (Dima) Zaiets ’18, Cameron Stott ’16, River Lund ’16 (Bottom l to r) Pliny Smith ’18, Luke (John) Fiocchi ’19, Heteng (Aaron) Li ’18, Viacheslav Troshchenko ’17, James Rozsypal ’16, Jason Lee ’16, Mark Pasikhov ’19 Photo: Scott Wallem