{"id":719,"date":"2014-06-07T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/?p=719"},"modified":"2014-06-07T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T20:52:11","slug":"athletic-hall-of-fame-2014-intro-1973-boys-swimming-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/2014\/06\/07\/athletic-hall-of-fame-2014-intro-1973-boys-swimming-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic Hall of Fame 2014 Intro: 1973 Boys Swimming Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: The 1973 Boys Swimming Team was inducted into the Williston Northampton Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 7, 2014 during Reunion weekend.\u00a0 Coach Duff Tyler ’63 gave the following introduction during the ceremony.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Boys<\/a>Thank you, Jeff, and as coach of this ’73 team I am honored and pleased to be able to be here today. Before I begin the introductions, I would like to tell why they are deserving of this honor. Of course the 12-0 duel meet record tells one story, but who they beat tells the real story: Beating Andover, Exeter, Hotchkiss, Mt. Hermon, and super rival Deerfield, and along the way beating West Point plebes, Coast Guard cadets, and freshmen teams\u2014Dartmouth, Harvard, Williams\u2014and a victory over our nemesis Yale!<\/p>\n

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Over the previous 20 years, Yale had triumphed over our teams, twice stopping undefeated teams by a single point! But not this year! With the score Williston 47 – Yale 41, and only the free relay (7 points to the winner, 0 for loser), I thought, “Oh no!” But not these guys. They went 1 -2 in the relay, just for good measure!<\/p>\n

Now to introduce the team that won the 11th consecutive New England championship:<\/p>\n

Co-Captains:<\/p>\n

Jan Kaplowitz 3 Event All-American
\nChris Stack 2 Event All-American<\/p>\n

These two men shared the Williston Babcock award given to team member(s) who combine sportsmanship, academic excellence, and leadership! Chris also won the New England \u201cswimmer of the meet\u201d award.<\/p>\n

Seniors:<\/p>\n

Wayne Leslie: Individual Medley and Breaststroker supreme for us
\nJerry Martin: Med. Relay, strong member of Fliers , New England 200 Free
\nJay Cilfone: 1 Event All-American Depth In Breaststroke and Relays
\n1 Event Honorable Mention All-American
\nTom Blake: Freestyle Depth 100 Free New England
\n(He wrote me, his daughter’s wedding is today! I wrote him, \u201cOkay, flake!\u201d)
\nDave Griswald: More Depth Freestyle
\nLarry Whalen: Backstroke Depth<\/p>\n

Underclassmen:<\/p>\n

Tim Wallace 3 Event All-American, won 100 Fly after 11th last year
\n2 older brothers were All-Americans; Shared Most Improved Swimmer
\nThom Macdonnell: 2 Event All-American, Best relay swimmer on the team
\n1 Event Honorable Mention All-American
\nScott Nicholson: 1 Event All-American, 1 Event Honorable Mention<\/p>\n

Will the four members of this team who swam the 200 free relay step forward? They represent four of fastest 15 times in the country in 1973\u2014a very rare event. It broke a 10-year-old record!<\/p>\n

Mark Mcquade: Strong Freestyler
\nCarlton Cronin: Independent Medley and Distance Freestyle. He shared most improved.
\nJay Donovan: Was our backstroke main man, also IM
\nTad Dziemian: Strong fly, free, great for relays
\nEd Kadunc: Our diver, some breaststroke
\nSteve Thurber: Breaststroke depth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: The 1973 Boys Swimming Team was inducted into the Williston Northampton Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 7, 2014 during Reunion weekend.\u00a0 Coach Duff Tyler ’63 gave the following introduction during the ceremony. Thank you, Jeff, and as coach of this ’73 team I am honored and pleased to be able to … Continue reading Athletic Hall of Fame 2014 Intro: 1973 Boys Swimming Team<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,200],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-speaker","category-reunion-speech","tag-athletic-hall-of-fame-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}