Collegiate School Men Capture the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association Title

By Brian Savard

CHATHAM, Virginia, March 12. THE Collegiate School men scored 379 points en route to dominating the other teams at the Virginia Independent School championship meet for their initial state championship title.

Paul VI Catholic High School, the defending state champion, scored 236 points and came in second while Bishop Ireton High School racked up 181 points to secure a third place finish.

Collegiate School's Scott Stuart Ferguson snagged two individual wins, reprising his dual victories from a year ago. Ferguson won the 200 IM with a time of 1:57.14, and he torched the competition in the 100 breaststroke clocking an Automatic All-American time of 56.65. Ferguson split a 25.66 breast leg as his 200 medley relay team won in an AA-A time of 1:37.59.

Colin Heinrich of the Trinity Episcopal School went untouched in his two individual events, winning both the 200 freestyle (1:43.35) and the 500 freestyle (4:36.94) in All-American consideration and automatic times, respectively.

Scott Madaras from the Hampton Roads Academy, who earned Male Swimmer of the Meet, easily captured titles in his events. Madaras dropped a second off of his preliminary time in the 100 butterfly (49.89), and he pulled ahead in the second 50 en route to a victory in the 100 freestyle (46.57) to defend his titles in those events with Automatic All-American times.

Hargrave Military Academy fielded two first-place relays. The 200 freestyle relay quartet of Rohan Johnson, Steven Gasparis, Pat Martelli and Ryan Inwood touched first with a 1:27.80 Automatic All-American time while the 400 freestyle relay grouping of Johnson, Inwood, Gasparis and Martelli won with a time of 3:15.26.

Briggy Imbriglia from Ireton recorded a first-place score of 442.10 in the diving competition. Henry Winslow from the Collegiate School placed second with a 325.85 score while Jim Kuhn from Ireton scored 311.95 points and took third.

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