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2012 SECTION V CLASS A CHAMPIONS! 

Head Coach - Mark Morris
Assistant Coach - Rick Schmitt
Diving Coach - Duane Green

Captains for the 2012-13 season are Matt Tanchick, Shea Ransford, Vincent Criscuolo and Trevor McCrobie

Monroe County Division 1 Champions: 1998-99, 1999-00, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09  2009-10 2010-11, 2012-13 - 11 Years! 

Section 5 Class A Champions: 1997-98, 1998-99, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013 - 11 Consecutive Years!

New York State NISCA Power Points/Dual Meet Ranking
#1: 1998-99, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2010-11

#2: 2007-08, 2008-09 (Tie), 2009-10 (Tie), 2011-2012

New York State Public High School Team Champions 2013!

200 Medley Relay State Champions-Shea Ransford, Matt Tanchick, Brett Eslinger, and PJ Ransford with an Automatic All American Time.

500 Free-Public School State Champion PJ Ransford with new Section 5 record and Automatic All American.

400 Free Relay Public High School Champions-Matt Tanchick, Will Dawson, Shea Ransford and PJ Ransford with All American Consideration.

New Section 5 Records set in 200 Medley Relay  (Shea Ransford, Matt Tanchick, Brett Eslinger, and PJ Ransford), 200 IM (Matt Tanchick), 500 Free (PJ Ransford), and 100 Breast (Matt Tanchick).

National NISCA Power Point Ranking (Class 3 Boys Public 1401-1900):
1996 - 5, 1997 - 4, 1998 - 1, 1999 - 3, 2000 - 5, 2001 - 5, 2002 - 2, 2003 - ?, 2004 - 3, 2005 - 6, 2006 - 8, 2007 - 3, 2008 - 4, 2009 - 4, 2010 - 8, 2011 - 16 (Class 4 over 1900), 19 - 2012 (Class 4 over 1900)

73 Varsity dual meet winning streak  (1/16/03 through 12/19/09) ended with 101.5 to 84.5 loss to NYS #1 ranked Shenendehowa. 84 meet Varsity Monroe County dual meet winning streak end with 94-92 loss to Fairport on 01/14/2012.

Current varsity dual meet winning streak:  12 (1/17/2012 -

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Pittsford Swimming and Diving completed their regular season last week unbeaten. They travelled down to Long Island for the Eastern States Championships. This meet draws the top teams from the north east and Pittsford dominated the event with the second place team more than 200 points adrift. While varsity travelled to Long Island for the invitational, the junior varsity team had a short trip down to Canandaigua for MCCI's. The junior varsity boys dominated the events and showed the strength and depth of the boys team.

The following Tuesday the two groups came together for the final dual meet at Gates-Chili they swam away with a 107-66 victory. The team managed to set 4 Gates Chili pool records in the 200 medley relay (Shea Ransford, Vincent Criscuolo, Matt Tanchick, Trevor McCrobie), Diving (Dylan Marin), 500 freestyle (Will Dawson), and the 100 Breaststroke (Brett Eslinger). The varsity boys are now preparing for Sectional prelims and finals on the 13th and 15th at the Webster Aquatics Center. The team is seeking their 11th consecutive Sectional title. The boys varsity diving already completed their sectionals and have given Pittsford a commanding leading entering the swimming portion of the event. The divers placed 1st, 2nd, 5th and tied for 9th, earning 60 points for the team.

Sectional diving is an 11 dive event and Dylan Marin and Sam Randall quickly established a lead at the top of the leaderboard with Marin finishing with a personal best of 520.65 followed by Randall at 467.65. Fairport and Hilton divers came in the next two spots, then it was Sean Riley at 387.25 with Michael Thiemel not far behind in 355.80 (Tied 9th).

The divers have had a great season with the top 2 divers qualifying for States on March 1. At Eastern States there was some very tough competition. Dylan Marin surpassed his own high standards in a number of dives, earning a perfect 10 on his inward 1 1/2 pike. Sam Randall also performed well with a 9.5 on his inward dive pike. The two divers came 2nd and 4th in the event. In addition Sean Riley and Michael Thiemel both set new best scores with 382.75 (8th) and 340.45 (16th) respectively. Ben Goodfriend won the JV 6 dive event with 191.90 points.

Pittsford Swimming and Diving team swam their last home meet of the season on Thursday. The win represented Coach Mark Morris' 200th victory in his 19th season as the head coach. He has been involved with the program for 41 years. This is his final year with the team as he is retiring at end of the season. Pittsford remains unbeaten with a 11-0 record, 9-0 in Section 5 dual meets.

Pittsford led off with their 200 Medley Relays and a 1-2 start. In the 200 Free it was 1-2-3 with Jesse Bennett (1:55.16), Casey Ransford (1:59.64) and Grey Ankenman (1:59.90) all breaking 2 minutes. Junior Varsity have also been unbeaten all season and continued their dominance with 1-2-3 in the 200 Indiviual Medley with Ethan Yung (2:27), Aiden Stanley (2:34) and Sahaj Kumar (2:40) - JV 50 Free was the same 1-2-3 result with Parker Neale (26.14), Alex McPherson (27.36) and Elliot Ding (28.49). the varsity 50 Free is always an exciting race with lots of action. Thursday Timo Krapf won in 23.19 with Mike Shenel (R-H) 2nd in 23.24 and PJ Ransford 3rd in 23.35.

In Diving Pittsford twisted and turned, applause erupting after each successful completion. Dylan Marin (321.05) outscored his close friend and rival Sam Randall (292.40) with Sean Riley (217.05) continuing to develop his repertoire of dives. Following the diving there was a celebration for the seniors. There are 14 seniors this year and each was recognized for their contributions to the team, some of whom are in their first season while others have been on the team for 6 years. The seniors on the team this year are William Beeley, Gene Charles, Marc Colby, Travis Crawford, Vincent Criscuolo, Langdon Kessner, Dylan Marin, Trevor McCrobie, Chris McPherson, Cesar Neri, Shea Ransford, Sam Roberts, Matt Tanchick and Alex Woodard.

In the 500 Free PJ Ransford dominated the event lapping the rest of the swimmers, setting a new pool record and finishing in 4:39.36, with Max Johnson 2nd in 5:34.06 and Langdon Kessner 3rd in 5:59.99. In the 200 Free Relay the winning team were all juniors with Austin Ling, Jack Thiemel, Chris Rudmann and Brett Eslinger (1:33.38). Matt Tanchick won the 100 Back in 55.53, with his teammate Albert Xiao close behind in 57.21 and Trevor McCrobie completing the 1-2-3 in 1:00.13. The individual events closed out with Shea Ransford (1:03.14), Will Dawson (1:03.68) and Vince Criscuolo (1:06.43) in the 100 Breast. Pittsford won the meet 111-71.

On Tuesday Pittsford travelled to Irondequoit winning 108-69 with a strong team performance. Freshman Arthur Fan had 2 victories in the 200 IM (2:01.98) and the 500 Free (4:58.05). Junior Brett Eslinger also had 2 victories in the 50 Free (22.65) and 100 Breast (1:02.24). PJ Ransford won the 200 Free (1:46.49), Matt Tanchick the 100 Free (50.02), Timo Krapf the Butterfly (56.72) and Albert Xiao the 100 Back (57.35)

. This week the team is preparing for the season ending JV MCCI meet in Canandaigua on Friday 25th, while the Varsity swimmers travel down to Long Island for the Eastern States Invitational.

Pittsford (5-0) beat Fairport on Thursday cruising to a 110-72 victory avenging their only dual meet loss last season. Pittsford Swimming and Diving were determined that this year there would be no doubt who is the top team in Section V. After 3 events they had opened up a 46-19 lead, then built upon the lead with 1-2-3 in diving and wrapped up the meet with some great individual and team performances enabling them to swim exhibition in the last 4 events.

Pittsford started out quickly with a 1-3 finish in the Medley relay. The team of Shea Ransford, Matt Tanchick, Brett Eslinger and PJ Ransford won by 1 second in a time of 1:39.25. Pittsford then dominated the 200 Free with a 1-2-3 finish, PJ Ransford won in 1:48.24, with Arthur Fan (1:50.03) and Trevor McCrobie (1:51.22). McCrobie out-touched the first Fairport swimmer Charlie Morales (1:51.23). This was a sign of things to come with Pittsford edging Fairport in some close finishes. In the 200 Individual Medley Pittsford placed 1-2-4 with Matt Tanchick (1:59.43), Shea Ransford (2:02.29) and Jack Thiemel (2:06.94).

The race of the meet was the 50 Free with the top 3 swimmers separated by 2/100th of a second. The fans were on their feet cheering on their teams to perform and the competition was intense. In a huge upset Austin Ling won in 22.60, with Timo Krapf in 22.61, David Howard (Fairport) came in 3rd at 22.62. Will Dawson picked up 4th in 22.84. The crowd needed a break to get their breath back and the diving began with 11 divers twisting and turning from the 1 meter board. After 6 dives Pittsford had swept the top three positions with Dylan Marin (307), Sam Randall (267) and Sean Riley (227). The JV team also performed well going 1-2-4 with Michael Thiemel (191), Ben Goodfriend (176), and Charlie Mack (138).

Next up was the 100 Fly with Pittsford extending their lead, Matt Tanchick won in 53.39 just beating his teammate Brett Eslinger (53.55) and 8th grader Casey Ransford came in 4th at 57.93. In the 100 Free it was the turn of Will Dawson (49.49) to out-touch David Howard (49.74) with Timo Krapf (50.63) and Austin Ling (50.91 placing 3rd and 4th. The 500 Free is the longest event and Pittsford continued to dominate with PJ Ransford in 4:51.41 and Trevor McCrobie (2nd, 5:04.16) and Jesse Bennett (4th, 5:08.38). In the 200 Free relay Pittsford went 1-2 with the teams of Will Dawson, Austin Ling, Timo Krapf, Brett Eslinger (1:29.36) and in second the team of Roddy Hughes, Max Johnson, Trevor McCrobie and Jack Thiemel (1:34.08) followed by the team of Chris Rudmann, Cesar Neri, Gene Charles and Chris McPherson (1:41.78). Fairport recorded their first win in the 100 Back with Charlie Morales (55.97), followed closely by Arthur Fan (56.30), Shea Ransford (56.40), and Albert Xiao (57.73). Fairport got their 2nd event win in the 100 Breast with Adam Clothier (1:03.18) out-touching Brett Eslinger (1:03.26), Vincent Criscuolo (1:05.68) and Jack Thiemel (1:06.70).

The meet closed out with the 400 Free relay with the result clearly decided. Pittsford continue their unbeaten season and next go to Bath this Saturday for the Fab 4 with 12 teams competing. Pittsford Junior Varsity was also well represented with an equally dominant performance versus Fairport and demonstrated that they are one of the strongest and deepest swim teams in the state.

Pittsford triumphed at Shenendehowa this weekend beating 14 upstate NY swimming and diving teams. PJ Ransford had an outstanding meeting, winning the 200 and 500 Free, in addition to anchoring victorious 200 and 400 Free Relay teams. He set a school record in the 500 Free with an All-American Consideration time.

The meet started with Diving and the competition was fierce. Dylan Marin and Sam Randall were facing their toughest competition of the season and both scored well with state qualifying point totals. The event was won by Nick Rusek, Warwick, with 510 points. Marin was close behind in fourth with 496 and Randall was fifth with 436. Sean Riley (330, 15th), Michael Thiemel (214, 19th), Ben Goodfriend (149, 21st), Charlie Mack (131, 29th) and Dylan Makovek (83, 41st) all performed well and demonstrated the depth of the diving program this year, under Coach Duane Green and Mark McMann.

In the afternoon session PJ Ransford (1:43.09) and Matt Tanchick (1:44.88) showed that they were in early season form with a 1-2 finish in the 200 Free, both were state cut times. Trevor McCrobie (1:50, 8th) and Jesse Bennett (1:54, 14th) accrued points for the team. Shea Ransford demonstrated his versatility in the 200 IM with a state cut time of 2:00.51 in winning the race by nearly 2 seconds. Arthur Fan came in fourth with 2:03.18, Jack Thiemel was 2:06.05 and Albert Xiao in 2:19.46.

In the 50 Free Pittsford showed off its depth with 7 swimmers in the top 24: Will Dawson (22.86), Austin Ling (22.96), Timo Krapf (23.11), Max Johnson (24.09), Alex Abrams (24.68), Marc Colby (25.05) and Chris McPherson (25.17). There were another 11 swimmers in the top 80 with Cesar Neri (38th), Christian Realbuto (42nd), Sam Roberts (45th), Parker Neale (48th), Tim Kallman (59th), Will Beeley (60th), Alex Ruffino (61st), Ben Johnson (63rd), Alex McPherson (64th), Dalton Ankerman (72nd) and Holten Hughes (77th).

Brett Eslinger narowly lost the 100 Fly with a state cut time of 54.10, Nick Wilkinson from Glens Falls won in 53.67. Eighth grader Casey Ransford came in 6th with 57.58, Chris Rudmann and Vince Criscuolo also broke a minute in 58.92 and 59.27 respectively. in the 100 Free it was the turn of Austin Ling (7th), Timo Krapf (8th) and Roddy Hughes to earn the points to keep Pittsford ahead in the meet. Chris McPherson, Michael Locke, Chris Evans, Aiden Stanley, Liam Tanchick, Cesar Neri, Sam Roberts and Ryan Alaimo also broke a minute in the event.

500 Free is the longest event and PJ Ransford dominated the race in an All American consideration time of 4:33.28, Will Dawson broke 5 minutes in fifth at 4:55.53 with McCrobie and Bennett in 9th and 12th.

Shen and Pittsford went head to head in the 200 Free Relay finishing more than 4 seconds ahead of the rest of the competition. Pittsford opened a small lead in the first leg and held on going into the final leg. The Shen anchor leg was swam by Ryan Gordon in an incredible time of 20.69. But PJ Ransford was not going to give it up and with a time of 21.82 held on to win by 0.23. Both teams qualified with state cut times.

Shea Ransford came in 3rd in the 100 Back, with Albert Xiao 6th, Arthur Fan 7th and Roddy Hughes 12th. In the 100 Breast Matt Tanchick won in a state cut of 59.70 with Brett Eslinger second in 1:03 with Vince Criscuolo 10th, Jack Thiemel 12th, Koby Waterstram 15th, Nate Topham 19th and Cameron Ling 22nd.

The Invitation came to a close with the best race of the meet. Pittsford opened up a small lead in the first leg of the 400 Free, but Fairport stacked their next two legs, with Charlie Morales and David Howard opening up a three second lead. But Pittsford was not finished with PJ Ransford still to swim the anchor leg. The volume rose in the building as the swimmers entered the last 25 with Fairport up by only a body length. Ransford continued to push and reeled Fairport in, outtouching him with an anchor leg of 47.25 and a big victory. Both team qualified for the state meet next year.

Pittsford started their swimming and diving season with a fast start defeating Canandaigua (1-1) 103-51. Pittsford is seeking their 11th consecutive Sectional championship.Pittsford were ranked 2nd in NY state last year and look to continue their dominance in Section V. Pittsford started off the meet demonstrating their depth going 1-2-3 in the JV Medley Relay. Their first relay team with Chris Evans, Cameron Ling, Nathaniel Topham and Ryan Alaimo touched in 1:58.60, the second team was Holten Hughes, LeightonKessner, Sahaj Kumar and Parker Neale in 2:08.14, third was Erik Gross, Elliott Ding, Alex McPherson and Alex Ruffino in 2:15.93.

In the varsity race the team of Shea Ransford, Brett Eslinger, Matt Tanchick and PJ Ransford won in 1:41.33 with the team of Albert Xiao, Austin Ling, Vince Criscuolo and Chris McPherson in 3rd at 1:53.12. In the JV 200 Free it was an exciting race with Michael Locke (2:06.63) out-touching Liam Tanchick (2:06.64) and Tim Drake (2:16.71) capturing 3rd. Varsity followed with another 1-2-3, Will Dawson (1:49.36), Arthur Fan (1:51.05) and Trevor McCrobie (1:52.84). In the 200 IM Matt Tanchick set a pool record and a state cut time at 1:59.82. Shea Ransford came in second (2:04.86). In the 50 Free Canandaigua's Sean Carbary won with Brett Eslinger (23.07) and Austin Ling (23.08) very close behind him.

Pittsford diving continues to get stronger with 8 strong divers on the team. Sean Riley (142.30), Charlie Mack (93.25) and Blake Anderson represented JV. Dylan Marin (283.20) and Sam Randall (265.30) lead the Varsity divers and promise to dazzle the crowd with their twists and turns throughout the season. Ben Goodfriend (198.25) and Michael Thiemel (186.45) provided solid support and continue to build on last season's success. Dylan Marin broke the Pittsford school record that has stood for more than 20 years.

The next event was the Fly and Jack Thiemel (58.83) just out-touched Casey Ransford (59.14), with Chris Rudmann (1:01.70) close behind, Will Beeley finished in 1:10.90. The 100 Free was a close race with PJ Ransford (49.52) out sprinting two Canandaigua swimmers (Brion and Carbary) with Timo Krapf (52.13) and Roddy Hughes (54.25) close behind.

The 500 Free is the longest event and Pittsford dominated with 1-2-3 in both races. Connor Byington (5:40) led the JV race with Aiden Stanley (5:49) and Ben Johnson (5:58). Matt Tanchick (4:53) led the Varsity race with Shea Ransford (5:11) and Jesse Bennett (5:12). Pittsford swam exhibition for the remainder of the meet. There was a close race in the 200 Free relay with Canandaigua out-sprinting Pittsford 1:32.57 to 1:32.71. The meet wrapped up with Arthur Fan (56.13) winning the 100 Back and Brett Eslinger (1:02.26) winning the 100 Breast. The meet closed out with the 400 Free relay and the teams looking forward to the rest of the season. Pittsford will swim at home vs Greece on Thursday (12/13) before traveling to Shenendehowa at the weekend.

Pittsford hosted the 39th Annual Water Polo tournament for Diabetes on Saturday after Thanksgiving. Four teams entered the tournament: Fairport, Gates Chili, Hilton, and Pittsford.

The Red Raiders and Panthers entered the final game with identical 2-0 records. The game started with the underclassmen contesting a close quarter Pittsford opened the scoring with Chris Evans following a shot that hit the cross bar.

Fairport then tied it up 1-1, before Alex McPherson made it 2-1 following a good passing exchange with Casey Ransford.

In the second quarter the Red Raider upperclassmen quickly got into their rhythm and David Howard launched a shot that crashed in off the cross bar to tie it up 2-2. Pittsford upper class men rallied and passed it around, controlling possession before Vince Criscuolo scored, with his trademark backhand shot.

The Panthers continued to press and contest every ball, Shea Ransford scored to leave Pittsford 4-2 up at the half. The fans were raucous and there many alumni from both schools in the crowd cheering on their teams in the closely contested game.

The two goalkeepers, Nathaniel Topham and Sam Randall, knew they would be under pressure in the second half and they stopped a number of shots at critical moments in the game.

The second half opened with the two teams looking for openings to shoot. The Panthers hit the mark first with Jesse Bennett on a break away, Fairport came back quickly to make it 5-3 entering the final quarter.

As the upper class men jumped into the pool for the final quarter there was a cacophony of noise as the fans urged on their teams. The teams traded fouls and possessions as the plays became frenetic. Pittsford struck first with goals from PJ Ransford and Chris McPherson, but Fairport got a goal back to keep their hopes alive at 7-5.

Pittsford used quick counter attacks to stretch the Fairport defense and create open shots. Matt Tanchick and Chris McPherson both scored to extend the lead to 9-5. Fairport and Pittsford exchanged goals to close out the game 10-6.

At the end both teams shook hands knowing that they had extended a long run tradition and helped to donate $1,170, including $365 in team donations, to the American Diabetes Association specifically to help send diabetic children to summer camps. The tournament was first held in 1973 by Pittsford’s first swim coach, Fred Rockow.

Prior to the finale Hilton had beaten Gates-Chili in a great match to claim third place in the tournament. At the end of the tournament Fairport Raiders coach Ryan Callan remarked “this is something we always look forward to after Thanksgiving. It is for a good cause - Diabetes. It is a great start to the season and we enjoy it every year.”

Pittsford Panthers coach Mark Morris added “it was another well contested tournament. We only had seven days to practice this year, but it was still very competitive. This is the 39th year of the tournament.”

Prior to the finale Coach Morris thanked all of the teams, fans, players, volunteers and officials for a successful day. Match volunteer officials were from the Rochester Senior Men’s water polo team - Seth Sealfon, Dr. Stefan Lucas and Aram Salehi.

 Caroline McPherson and Linda Locke ran the concessions stand with a lot of parent and swimmer volunteers. Morris also thanked members of the Pittsford Girls and Boys Swimming and Diving Team for running the clock and keeping score.

Everyone is looking forward to the boys swimming and diving season starting with all of the teams practicing hard. Pittsford will swim their first meet on Tuesday at Canandaigua.

Team Captains: Chris Dawson, Morgan Marin and Josh Kapilivsky

2011-2012 Accomplishments:

Water Polo Tournament Champions 9-1 in Dual Meets

First Place at Bath Fab Four Invitational

1st Place Eastern States Invitational

Section 5, Class A Champions - 10th straight year #1 in NYS Rankings