Swimmers Second at CCC South Meet

The Berlin swim team surprised its CCC opponents and perhaps themselves in finishing second in the CCC South meet after a tough season. 

"Wow where to start with yesterday's conference meet," Berlin coach Eileen Thurston said. "We finished second in the meet beating both Bristol Co-op and Plainville who beat us in the dual meet season. We also had two new school records."

Dan Klotz in the 50 free with a time of 22.30 and Vinny Fischer in the 100 Back with a time of 58.24 both set school records.

Berlin crowned seven conference champions: the 200 medley relay team of Vinny Fischer, Taylor Bosse, Kevin Kozikowski, and Dan Klotz; Kevin Kozikowski in the 100 fly and the 200 free, Dan Klotz in the 50 free and the 100 free; Vinny Fischer in the 100 back; and the 400 Free Relay team of Kevin Kozikowski, Vinny Fischer, Kyle Nelson, and Dan Klotz.  

Over 75 best times were achieved out of 90 swims and dives.

"Some of our outstanding performances came from Chris Cefaratti in the 50 and 100 free, Taylor Bosse, Chris Domurat and Luke Switzer in the 100 breaststroke, Vinny Fischer made the state cut in the 200 IM, Ryan Newport in the 200 IM. Sanjiv Patel in the 100 free, Fazli Bozal in the 200 free, Igor Turetskyy in the 100 Back and 100 Free.

"Our divers Josh Paradis, Nathan Giaccone and Jakub Cwieka not only dove well but had great swims as well and exchange student Alex Studt swam lifetime bests in all of his races.  I could name many more as they were all amazing. All of our hard work culminated in some great achievements."

Berlin next swims at the Class M State meet this week with Diving at East Lyme High School on Wednesday March 9 and swimming trials on Saturday March 12 at Masuk High School in Monroe.