Swimming at the Bud Erich Invitational Championship

The Eaglebrook Swim team traveled to The Hopkins School for the last Bud Erich Invitational Championship meet ever. The meet has been the penultimate meet for New England prep swimming for two decades, this year was the last one. The Eaglebrook team has been looking forward to the meet since last year’s third-place finish. With eight returning Sixth Formers, a new crew of enthusiastic underformers, and an undefeated dual meet season behind them, the team was psyched for Saturday. This was not just any meet, the boys from Pocumtuck Mountain were competing against eleven varsity prep teams. In the first race of the meet Jeffrey Lim, Jack Sun, Timothy Barry, and Felix Tsao, the 200 Medley Relay team, broke the school record for the fifth time this season by a whopping 2 seconds, winning the silver medal. The team never looked back, leaving the competition in their wake, taking the runner-up trophy for the entire meet just behind host team, The Hopkins School. Every boy swam his fastest of the year, quite an amazing feat. The team returned to EBS late Saturday night with a load of precious medal including: Andrew Chang –bronze medals 200IM and 100Free, Felix Tsao-silver medal 50 Free, bronze medal 100 Back, Jeffrey Lim-silver medal 100 Butterfly (new school record again), Timothy Barry – bronze medal 100 Butterfly, Sean Meng – gold medal 50 Backstroke, Michael Xu-silver medal 50 Backstroke, Thomas Bowers- bronze medal 50 Backstroke, Alex Ahmed- bronze medals 50 Backstroke and 50 butterfly and finally, the 200 Freestyle Relay team of Jeffrey Lim, Timothy Barry, Felix Tsao, and Andrew Chang won the bronze medal. Yes, it was a fantastic feat on the final swim for the Eaglebrook team, Saturday. What a way to end the season and the EBS career of Sixth Formers: Jason Lee, Qais Hijazi Jeffrey Lim, Jack Sun, Andrew Chang, Felix Tsao, Sean Meng, and Timothy Barry.