FAIRFIELD, Conn – After a successful season in the pool, many men's and women's swimming and diving team members represented their respected clubs across the country this summer in State, Regional and National level meets.
Colleen Young continued her success in the pool over the summer as she competed in the 2018 Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships that took place from August 9-13 in Cairns, Australia. The Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships is hosted every four years and historically the event attracts up to 19 countries. Young won gold in the 100 meter breaststroke, silver in the 200 meter individual medley, and bronze in both the 100 meter backstroke and 50 meter freestyle. Young helped lead Team USA to a second-place overall finish behind Australia.
Oreoluwa Cherebin competed in the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games this summer as well from July 20-25 in Barranquilla, Columbia. The Games are a multi-sport regional championship event that takes place every four years and are for countries in Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the South American countries of Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Ore swam for her home country of Grenada finishing 25th in the 50 meter freestyle, 19th in the 100 meter breaststroke and 25th in the 50 meter butterfly. Cherebin also made it to the consolation finals of the 50 meter breaststroke and finished 14th.
Nick Adams,
Bexhet Dovolani,
Benjamin Kebbell,
Arion Mete,
Ian Nelson,
Jordan Rahurahu and
Phillip Zyskowski all competed in the Connecticut Senior Championship representing Fairfield from July 12-15 at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. They finished in 11
th place overall out of the 53 teams that were competing.
"This past season was arguably the most successful in program history for the Stags" said Head Coach
Anthony Bruno. "We asked the group to embrace doing more this summer and be prepared to jump us to another level for 2018-2019. Many of our team members were a part of their respected clubs for state and regional championships this summer. We had one incoming team member be a part of a YMCA national team championship. I could not be prouder for Ore and Colleen to represent us on an international level during July and August. The staff and I are really looking forward to this upcoming season and the direction we are going as a program."
The 2018 season is tentatively set to open at the end of September. The complete schedule for both the men's and women's team will be announced in the coming weeks on FairfieldStags.com.
