Boys’ swim and dive ends record-filled season at State

Thomas Hurley Sports Editor

The boys’ swim team finished up a historic season with State qualifiers in 11 of 12 events, breaking school records along the way.

After placing third in Conference, the Hawks went on to get second in Sectionals, bringing the necessary competitiveness to qualify 10 individual swimmers.

To give themselves the upper hand, the team endured intense training, even coming in early in the morning to practice more.

“The biggest challenge throughout the whole season was getting up almost every morning at 6 a.m.,” senior state qualifier Ljubomir Popovic said. “We knew that by doing something like that, we would have an advantage against our opponents.”

At Sectionals, school records were broken in three events: the 200