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Varsity Swimming
Coach Charles Brown and the merpeople faced a big challenge: How do we pull a winning season while miss­ ing most of last year’s top scorers? Ape, Guppy, Lisa, Patti, Margarita and the rest showed the way — a youth movementl Under the steady leadership of Cap­ tain Julie Casagrande, and the madcap rantings of the second-year coach, this year’s workouts toughened up, and so did the team.
The result? Last year 4-8, this year 7-7. "If the season had gone longer, we would have won more,” said Coach Brown, struggling to have a cancelled meet resche­ duled. Additions to the team like strong freshman Tom Murray, MVP swimmer, and Patti Wysock only galva­ nized existing standouts like Lisa Minard and Marcel Lissinna placed, this year three swimmers did. The team as a whole also did well in the states.
The future? Bright! Most of this year’s best swim­ mers are freshmen and sophomores, both they and the coach will come back with more experience, more en­ thusiasm, and more to shoot for — a winning season, next year. The personalities, Karl "The Ram” Munzel, Mark "Muscles” Petrocelli, Charles, "Chuck” Brown, the pool, the spirit, next year could be the Year of the Sharks.
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Schedule
OPPONENTS Sayerville 72
Hun 58 Rutgers Prep 57 Blair 78 Union Catholic 74 Madison Central 35 Ranney 59 Pennington 54 Pingry 70.5 Somerville 61 Newark 65 Summit 79 Montclair Kimberly 55 Rahway 52
5th Boys’ State Tournament 4th Boys’ Counties
4th Girls’ State Tournament 4th Girls6 counties
VARSITY SWIM TEAM, LEFT TO RIGHT, FRONT ROW: M. Reyes, E. Jenson, R. Rosengarten, K. Kunst, A. Yoder. SECOND ROW: Coach C. Brown, S. Ashton, M. Petrocelli, M. Lissina, B. DelVento, L. Minard. BACK ROW: G. Raudelunas, J. Blair, D. Capaccio, M. Pittis, L. Leonowitz, J. Yurusi, J. Casagrande.