The 2021 Bolles Boys’ Swimming and Diving team has been named Swimming World’s Boys’ National High School Champion, the ninth overall (public and independent schools combined) national title in the boys’ program history. The honor is the seventh for the Bolles boys’ team from Swimming World. Bolles has also now claimed 12 independent school national titles. Combined with the girls’ team, Bolles has won 18 overall national titles and 20 independent school national titles.
Swimming World combined the top times from throughout the nation swum during the 2021-22 high school season to form a mock heat sheet. Bolles tallied 148 points, with the next competitor, Carmel High School in Indiana, tallying 105. Bulldog swimmers earned the top times in the nation in two relays – the 200 free relay (Andres Dupont Cabrera ’22, William Heck ’23, Tucker Peterson ’22, Ethan Maloney ’22) and the 400 free relay (Seth Tolentino ’24, Carter Lancaster ’24, Dupont Cabrera, Kayden Lancaster ’23).
Other top national times from Bolles included the 200 medley relay in third (Carter Lancaster, Heck, Miguel Rojas Newman ’22, Peterson), Dupont Cabrera in the 100 free (6th) and 200 free (9th); Heck in the 100 breast (4th) and Carter Lancaster in the 200 IM (15th).
In the feature story on Bolles in the upcoming September 2022 Issue of Swimming World (Bolles also appears on the cover), Head Coach Peter Verhoef shared that it was depth and mutual respect that fueled his 2021 squad’s success.
“This group of guys on paper, it was our depth. We had a number of guys step up to help the team. A lot of them believed they could make an impact and that showed,” Verhoef said. “But culturally, when you look under that, this group was really good coming through COVID and coming out the other side knowing everyone has something to contribute. That respect is what is going to stand out about this team. They believed everyone in the locker room was important. They grew a lot to respect that contribution. It helped a lot of guys step up and have a bigger impact for the team.”
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