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FLY HIGH JESUIT CAPTURES HARD-FOUGHT STATE SWIMMING TITLE
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n the evening of Friday, November 19, the LHSAA Division I finals pre-meet psyche sheet placed the Jesuit swim team behind the meet’s three-time defending champions from Catholic High School by 131-points. Blue Jays swimmers accepted this challenge from the Bears, resolving to rise to the occasion. “The guys came in hungry and 22 | J A Y N O T E S | F A L L / W I N T E R 2 0 2 1
confident knowing that they were much better than their seed times had indicated,” said newly tapped Jesuit assistant swim coach Brett Dipuma ’14. “They wanted to win this meet and did everything that we had asked them to and more during this crazy season.” After a trying season in which the team never got the chance to compete in a regulation indoor pool until the
finals meet itself, the underdog Jesuit swimmers seized the state title with an exhilarating crescendo of hard-won races in the Sulphur Parks and Recreation natatorium. The moment was marked by a triumphant roar from the crowd as senior Egan Trahant, junior Truman Breithaupt, and freshman upstart Enzo Solitario exuberantly stretched their arms into the water to celebrate
