{"id":147274,"date":"2026-03-24T20:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147274\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:07:29","slug":"boys-swim-dive-team-wins-section-2-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147274\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys Swim & Dive team wins Section 2 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Saturday, Feb. 14, the BC boys Varsity Swim & Dive team won the Section 2 Division 1 championship at Shenendehowa High School. It was the team\u2019s first sectional championship since 2001.<\/p>\n

The sectional title followed an undefeated regular season for BC Boys Swim & Dive. It was the first undefeated season for the team since 1997.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery person on this team had a part in the success we had this weekend,\u201d said Coach Tom Kearney.\u00a0 \u201cI am proud of each and every one of them.<\/p>\n

Section 2 Championship Highlights<\/p>\n

200 Medley Relay \u2013 Section 2 Champions (Ewan Izzard, Bhargava Janga, Jacob Hershberg, Eli German)
\n200 Freestyle Relay \u2013 Section 2 Champions (Mikolaj Wloszczynski, Ewan Izzard, Ian Savage, Jack Keating)\u00a0
\n100 Butterfly \u2013 Section 2 Champion (Jacob Hershberg), 3rd place (Eli German), 14th place (Levi German)
\n100 Backstroke \u2013 Section 2 Champion (Jacob Hershberg), 2nd place (Ewan Izzard) 5th place (Eli German), 8th place (Levi German)
\n50 Freestyle \u2013 2nd place (Jack Keating), 5th place (Mikolaj Wloszczynski and 7th place (Ian Savage)
\n400 Freestyle Relay \u2013 3rd Place (Jack Keating, Ian Savage, Jacob Hershberg, Mikolaj Wloszczynski)
\n100 Breastroke \u2013 6th place (Bhargava Janga), 12th place (Alex Wang)
\n100 Freestyle \u2013 3rd place (Jack Keating), 5th place (Ian Savage), 6th place (Mikolaj Wloszczynski), 16th place (Ben Zhang)
\n200 Freestyle \u2013 15th place (Luke Peters)
\n200 Freestyle Consolation \u2013 9th place (Alex Skuza)
\n500 Freestyle \u2013 9th place (Luke Peters), 14th place (Alex Skuza), 16th place (Jack Buenau)\u00a0
\n500 Freestyle Consolation \u2013 1st (Luke Peters)
\nDiving \u2013 8th place (Max Connolly), 9th place (Tahir Hocalar)<\/p>\n

NYS Qualifiers<\/p>\n

With their exceptional season and sectional win, several team members have qualified for the NYS Swim & Dive Championships<\/a> in March. They include:<\/p>\n

Eli German (100 Butterfly)
\nJacob Hershberg (200 Medley Relay, 100 Backstroke, 100 Butterfly)
\nEwan Izzard (200 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay, 100 Backstroke, Individual Medley)
\nBhargava Janga (200 Medley Relay, 100 Breaststroke)
\nJack Keating (200 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay, 50 Freestyle)
\nIan Savage (200 Freestyle Relay)
\nMikolaj Wloszczynski (200 Freestyle Relay)<\/p>\n

Congratulations to the entire team on a truly outstanding season!<\/p>\n

BC Varsity Swim & Dive<\/p>\n

Mason Bergeron
\nJack Buenau
\nMaxwell Connolly (Diver)
\nVictor Franco
\nEli German
\nLevi German
\nJacob Hershberg
\nTahir Hocalar (Diver)
\nJacob Hussar
\nEwan Izzard
\nBhargava Janga
\nJack Keating
\nEzra McIlvain
\nLucas Peters
\nIan Savage
\nAlexander Skuza
\nKai Uruga
\nAlex Wang
\nMikolaj Wloszczynski
\nDayou (Ben) Zhang
\nThomas Kearney, Boys Varsity Swim Coach
\nJenny VanHorne, Boys Varsity Diving Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, Feb. 14, the BC boys Varsity Swim & Dive team won the Section 2 Division 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[43998,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-147274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bchs-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}