New Paltz junior Hudson Carroll placed third in the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 51.29 at the state swimming and diving championship finals Saturday at Webster-Schroeder High School in Webster. Warwick sophomore Nick Rusek was fourth in the diving competition, scoring 483.50 points. New Paltz led all Section 9 squads in team scoring, [...]
MONTGOMERY — Pine Bush made it one for the thumb Saturday afternoon. The Bushmen won a fifth straight Section 9 boys’ swimming and diving championship at the Valley Central High School natatorium, continuing the tradition of throwing the coaches in the pool at the end of the meet. Check out the video above for highlights [...]
MONTGOMERY — Two weeks ago, Nick Rusek nearly broke the Section 9 record on the diving board, a mark that has stood since 1992. He didn’t get that close on Thursday night, but he did win a Section 9 championship and lead Warwick to a sweep of the top four spots on the podium. Rusek, [...]
The Section 9 boys’ swimming and diving championships will be held this weekend at Valley Central High School in Montgomery. Here is a schedule of events. Thursday: Diving, prelims through finals – starts at 3:30 p.m. Friday: Swimming preliminaries – starts at 4:30 p.m. Saturday: Swimming finals – starts at 2:30 p.m. There will be [...]
WASHINGTONVILLE — If the Pine Bush swim team is Batman, then the rest of Section 9 has been playing the part of Robin for the last five years. Well, it’s a long story, but for more on how Pine Bush’s swim team was inspired to a fifth straight OCIAA meet title by the latest Batman [...]
WASHINGTONVILLE – Nick Rusek broke the OCIAA meet diving record last year, but he still placed second to Pine Bush senior Matt Salle, who had set a new OCIAA meet mark with a score of 529.05. This season, the record is Rusek’s to keep. Rusek, a sophomore at Warwick, scored 541.95 points over 11 dives [...]
SLATE HILL – For video highlights of Pine Bush’s win over Minisink Valley on Tuesday, check out the video above. For more on the meet, check out the story in Wednesday’s Times Herald-Record. – For more swimming coverage, including the OCIAA swimming meet on Saturday, follow me on Twitter: @THR_Montgomery.
SLATE HILL – I caught up with Minsink Valley’s boys’ swimming and diving team before today’s practice. The Warriors are undefeated so far this year after winning just three regular season dual meets a season ago. Next Tuesday, Minisink Valley hosts Pine Bush in the regular season finale and both teams are likely to carry [...]
Our first boys’ swimming and diving chat of the season will begin at 6 p.m. Get your questions/comments in now: Boys’ Swimming Or you can visit the link on www.recordonline.com: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130113/SPORTS31/130119884
With the second half of the Section 9 boys’ swimming season set to start with seven dual meets tomorrow, I thought I’d take at look at where our local swimmers are stacking up among their competition from the rest of the state. Thanks to the state-wide database of SectionXswim.com websites, we have a pretty good [...]
