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Season in Review

2005-6

Buffalo soldiers.

Nick Chester, Billy Krause & Kyle Yeager at the New York State Federation Swimming & Diving Championships.

It's all over.

Friar swimmers return from Buffalo.

Kyle Yeager finished 3rd in the 200 IM and 10th in the 100 Backstroke.

Kyle's performance in the 200 IM qualified him for "All-American Consideration." He broke the team records in the 200 IM & 100 Backstroke in the preliminaries and then broke them again in the finals.

Billy Krause was the 1st Friar freshman in 5 years to qualify for States, and one of only a handful of NYCHSAA freshman qualifying for Buffalo.

Nick Chester had some great swims, especially given his recent knee surgery. No one expected Nick to be able to return to the team this season, let alone qualify for States in 2 events.

It was a great season for the Friar's men.

Results

Pictures

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Friar Swimmers compete in Junior National Swimming Championships
Kyle Yeager		Caitlin Napoli			Jackie Fasano
Friar Swimmers compete in Eastern Sectional Swimming Championships at Harvard University
Keira Yeager	Alana Biagioli		Caitlin Biagioli	Emily DiDonato		Nick Chester

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Friars finish 3rd at NYCHSAA Championships.

Kyle Yeager takes the gold medal in the 200 IM.

Chaminade repeates as Champions, with Fordham Prep. finishing a close 2nd.

Bryan Sharp wins the Lester Scholoen Award for Diving, &

Kyle Yeager garners the Coaches' Award as the Team's Most Outstanding Swimmer.

Freshman Billy Krause will lead 3 Friar Swimmers to the New York State Federation Championships in Buffalo.

Friars State Qualifiers

Kyle Yeager

Billy Krause

Nick Chester

Final Results

Results from Prelims.

Kyle Yeager breaks his own team record in the 100 backstroke.

Friar Divers finish 2nd in the NYCHSAA Diving Championships.

Coach Beth Bolger shows her divers stuff, leading them to a 2nd place finish in the NYCHSAA Diving Championships.

All of our divers finished in the top 12.

Brian Sharp	4th
Pattie O'Connell	5th
Tyler Monier-Williams	7th
Brittany Skrpek	11th

St. Anthony's is the 2nd best diving team in the league.

Congratulations to Coach Beth Bolger and our diving team.

Impressive!

Friars finish fast ... capture third place in B-Champs.

Mike Keane captures Gold in 500 Free, edging teammate Travis Chuba by less than a tenth of a second.

Mike Keane & Travis Chuba captured gold & silver in the Men's 500 yard Freestyle, and both qualified for A-Champs.

Corey Martin capped off the night, swimming his way to A-Champs with an incredible 1st leg of the Men's Championship winning 4X100 yard freestyle relay.

Results

The dual meet season ends on Staten Island as the Friars dominate St. Peter's

Patty O'Connell wins diving, while Kyle Yeager and Nick Chester each win 2 events.

Danny McShane wins the 100 breast in overwhelming fashion.

Freshman Billy Krause wins the 200 IM.

Chris Hoey takes the 50 free.

Kevin Lindsey wins the 100 free.

Next stop ... "B" Champs

Friar swimmers dominate St. Francis Prep. in last home meet of the season.

The meet was marked by the return of Nick Chester, who won both the 200 and 500 freestyle races.

Kyle Yeager shatters his own 200 IM record.

Yeager & Mike Fallarino went 1-2 in the fly while Josh Willis & Kevin Lindsey went 1-2 in the backstroke. Kevin took gold in the 50 free.

Billy Krause won the 100 free and Danny McShane dominated in winning the 100 breast.

Brian Sharp and Tyler-Monier Williams go 1-2 in diving .

Next stop ... Staten Island.

St. Anthony's defeats Kellenberg at Chaminade

Friar swimmers gearing up for Champs.

Freshman Kevin Afonso qualified for "A-Champs" in the 100 breaststroke, as the St. Anthony's Men dominated.

Kyle Yeager, Billy Krause & Josh Willis each won 2 events.

Friars show pride & pluck at Chaminade.

She's not a rookie anymore!

Patty O'Connell takes first place against the mighty Chaminade!

Coach Beth continues to improve our divers at a tremendous rate!

All of their hard work shows when you get a 1,2 finish (Brian Scharp took second!) against such a great team!

Congratulations to all our divers and we look forward to seeing what you can do at Champs!

The swimmers are sure cheering for you!

After hearing a Chaminade "sweep" chant, Kyle Yeager, in training for his 200 IM, swims back-to-back races, getting out of the water after winning the 100 back and getting directly on the blocks for the 100 breast. And, he finished first in both the 100 back and 100 breast!

Personally that was an absolute thrill to see!

No sweep!

Our team goal at this meet was to have our "A" swimmers step aside and have everyone close to "A Champ" cuts get a shot at making it.

Our Captain and leader Danny McShane showed the team how to do just that! He qualified in both events that he swam, the 200 free and 100 breast! Danny shows it pays to be at practice. In fact, all three of our Captains have the best attendance the team has ever had. They've each missed only one practice in the last 4 years!

Great job by ALL the Friars!!!

-Coach Dan

Friar swimmers & divers split with Paul VI at George Mason University

Lady Friars dominate and stay unbeaten & unchallenged in a lopsided victory.

The Men's team fall to a formidable Fairfax foe.

It was the most intense and closely fought meet of the season, as outstanding swims and personal bests were recorded by Friars swimmers.

Results

Thanks to all of the parents and fans who traveled to Fairfax, Va. to support our swimmers.

Lady Friars ... Back-to-Back NSCHSAA Champions

State Qualifiers
Jackie Fasano	Caitlin Napoli
Keira Yeager	Emily DiDonato
Caitlyn Biagioli	Alana Biagioli
Sarah Kretz

The Lady Friars finish as the Number 1 Catholic School and 7^th overall at States!!

States this year was incredible. I still can’t believe how fast it was. I never thought when I started coaching 20 years ago, that I would see high school girls swimming that fast! Times were amazing! And so was St. Anthony’s!

I was never so busy at a State Meet with St. Anthony’s being represented in all but 2 events. Coach Scott and I were so pleased to see the Friars being one of the few teams hitting their times. Our Medley Relay (Caitlyn Biagioli, Emily DiDonato, Caitlin Napoli, and Alana Biagioli) was super strong in prelims, and had a great personal best swim by Sarah Kretz anchoring the relay in finals. Jackie Fasano, who just signed with Colgate (hooray!) days earlier, had an awesome 200 free at 154.99 and an All-American Consideration 500 free at 504.11!! Hitting All-American Consideration times continued into the 200 IM when Caitlin Napoli swam a 208.18, and later another personal best and All-American Consideration time in the 100 fly at 57.58!! Caitlyn Biagioli just picked up where she left off at Champs and turned in personal best times in the 100 free at 54.19 and in the 100 back at 101.86! Our state qualifying freshmen also had awesome meets gaining a lot of experience and swimming like veterans! Double qualifier Keira Yeager swam awesome in the 200 IM and 100 breast, while Emily DiDonato’s 100 breast qualified to come back for finals where she swam a 109.32!! The Friars 400 Free relay, (as Coach Scott puts it… “the Granddaddy of all relays!) was outstanding! Just to be in that final heat, with those awesome relay teams we’ve seen be so successful was a thrill. Caitlin Napoli lead off beautifully with a 53.47 flat start! Caitlin Biagioli, again bringing her best swimming, went a 54.02! Then, gaining the respect of every coach from CHSAA, Alana Biagioli nursed an injured neck/shoulder all day in preparation of her awesome 54.17! And finally, the toughest anchor swimmer, Jackie Fasano swam a 54.29 with the best 4^th lap you’ve ever seen on a Friar relay, touching out the infamous Orchard Park by .19, giving the team a 3^rd place finish with an All-American Consideration time of 337.16!! I am so proud of each and every one of you!

Congratulations to every swimmer on this incredible team that made this season so memorable!!

  2005 Federation State Championship - 11/18/2005 to 11/19/2005

Team Rankings

                               Girls - Team Scores

Place School                                          Points

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 1 4-Ithaca                           4ITH            209

 2 5-Fairport                         5FAIR           169

 3 9-Cornwall                         9CORN           148

 4 6-Orchard Park                     6OP             112

 5 5-Pittsford                        5PITT           102

 6 11-Sayville/Bayport/Blue Point     11SBB            92

 7 Ch-St. Anthony's                   CHSA             84

 8 2-Bethlehem Central                2BC              79

 9 8-Great Neck South                 8GNS             62

 10 1-Briarcliff/Ossing/Westlk/Pvi     1BOWP            58

 11 6-Kenmore-West                     6KENW            55

 11 11-Mount Sinai                     11MS             55

 13 8-Garden City                      8GC              54

 13 3-New Hartford                     3NHRT            54

 15 6-Lockport                         6LOCK            50

 15 2-Shenendehowa                     2SH              50

 17 11-Hauppauge                       11HAU            49.5

 18 4-Chenango Valley                  4CV              49

 19 1-Bronxville High School           1BXVL            46

 20 11-Connetquot                      11CNN            38

 21 9-Valley Central                   9VC              34

 22 1-Suffern High School              1SUFR            33

 23 11-Half Hollow Hills               11HHH            31.5

 24 2-Scotia-Glenville                 2SG              31

 24 8-South Side                       8SS              31

 26 8-Glen Cove                        8-GLE            30

 27 9-Washingtonville                  9WASH            27

 27 1-Lakeland/Panas                   1LK/P            27

 29 1-White Plains High School         1WPHS            26

 29 Ch-Sacred Heart                    CHSH             26

 31 3-Fayetteville Manlius             3FM              25

 32 2-Niskayuna                        2NH              24

 33 11-Smithtown                       11SMT            22

 34 6-Lancaster                        6LANC            18

 34 4-Johnson City                     4JC              18

 34 2-Mohonasen-Schalmont              2MS              18

 37 5-Brighton                         5BRGT            17.5

 38 6-Williamsville North              6WILL            17

 39 Ch-Holy Trinity                    CHHT             15

 39 9-Monroe-Woodbury                  9M-W             15

 41 Ps-Stuyvesant                      PSSTU            14

 41 1-Clarkstown High School           1-CLA            14

 41 4-Lansing                          4LANS            14

 44 2-Amsterdam                        2AM              13

 44 1-Brewster High School             1BREW            13

 44 11-Huntington                      11HNT            13

 47 1-Rye High School                  1RYE             12.5

 48 6-Lewiston-Porter                  6LPG             12

 48 11-Lindenhurst                     11LND            12

 50 9-Kingston                         9KING            11

 51 2-Saratoga                         2SA               9

 51 5-Batavia                          5BATV             9

 53 5-Canandaigua                      5CAND             8

 54 Ch-St. Francis Prep                CHSF              7

 55 9-F.D. Roosevelt                   9FDR              6

 55 3-Liverpool                        3LIVP             6

 57 5-Webster Schroeder                5WBST             5

 57 4-Owego                            4OWG              5

 57 Ch-Nardin                          CHN               5

 57 2-Shaker                           2SHA              5

 61 9-Warwick                          9WAR              4

 61 1-Ardsley/Hastings                 1A/H              4

 61 1-John Jay Cross River             1JJCR             4

 61 1-Scarsdale High School            1SCAR             4

 61 1-The Ursuline School              1URS              4

 66 8-Bethpage                         8BETH             3

 67 5-Brockport                        5BROC             2

 67 11-East Islip                      11EI              2

 69 8-Wheatley                         8WHEA             1

 69 6-Williamsville East               6WEAS             1

 69 2-Ballston Spa                     2BS               1

Amazing… Amazing… Amazing!!!!

That was an incredible Championship performance by ALL the FRIARS!! Over 700 points!! Just to give you a reference, great teams would look to score 500 points (as Kellenberg did) and think they had a good shot at winning champs. But 700… only the Friars can do that!!

So how are we able to accomplish that, Coach? “Well, we swim real fast!” (ok, we know that one). Seriously, it’s the incredible depth of talent this team has that makes it so unstoppable. Here’s what you look at first to find incredible: the results of the “timed finals” events that swam on Sat. only.

50 Free: We had 4 in the top 9 (out of 34)

50 fly: We had 4 in the top 10 (out of 26)

100 free: We had 4 in the top 5 (out of 33)

50 Back: We had 4 in the top 8 (out of 30)

50 Breast: We had 3 in the top 3 (out of 30)

In Champs, you are allowed four entries per event. THAT is our next four! Let’s say we scrapped the entire “scored championships” and only scored those events. You want to talk about a Landslide!!! The deeper you go into this team, the better we are!

As far as the trials/finals events go… we were amazing on Sat, and if you can believe it, (and you should, this is the Friars we’re talking about) even better on Sunday!! Just as it should be, we peaked at Champs. For the second year straight, not only did we qualify EVERY swimmer to come back on Sunday, we qualified in the top 17!! You want to talk about highlights?? How about our 200 Medley Relay breaking the League record. Jackie Fasano was a double winner. Caitlin Napoli broke the 100 free League record. And, you want to talk about making a statement (as Coach Scott put it), we had all four entries in Finals the 200 IM. Not just IN finals. How about all four in the top 6!!! Do you want more?? The Friars qualified at least one swimmer to States in all but two events!! Now that’s what I call a TEAM!! As we said in our 1^st meeting of the season… “everybody counts”! Congratulations to ALL the swimmers on this remarkable, undefeated, Championship team!! Thank you to Sister Lucide, Coach Scott, and each and every parent who supports us and cheers for these incredibly talented athletes!

Proud and Honored to be called your Coach,

Dan McBride

Best of Luck at States: Caitlin Biagioli, Emily DiDonato, Caitlin Napoli, Alana Biagioli, Jackie Fasano, and Keira Yeager!!

Let’s Go Friars!!!