Orchard Park High School earned a lot of success in the pool throughout both the girls and boys seasons in 2011.

During the 2010-2011 school year, the boys team earned a first place finish at sectionals in the 200-yard medley relay (1:40.24).

Andrew Duszynski

Three Quakers finished among the top six in the 200-yard individual medley, including top finisher junior Andrew Duszynski (1:58.02). Spencer Bray finished fourth (2:04.11) and senior Mike Sutz finished sixth (2:06.42).

Duszynski and Sutz competed in the 100-yard butterfly earning fourth and ninth place, respectively. Bray finished sixth in the 100-yard backstroke (57.07).

Freshman Zach Healy finished ninth (50.13) at sectionals in the 100-yard freestyle event.

At the state meet, the medley relay of Duszynski, Alex Moore, Sutz and Bray finished 19th (1:39.65). Duszynski (1:44.72) and Bray (1:45.17) competed in the 200-yard freestyle event earning 15th place finishes among federation swimmers and 10th and 11th place among NYS public high school swimmers.

Duszynski earned the ninth fastest time in the 100-yard backstroke (52.77) among public high school swimmers and 17th among all swimmers. Bray swam in the 500-yard freestyle earning the 14th best time (4:48.4) among public swimmers and placing 22nd overall.

In the fall of 2011, Lady Quakers sophomore Andrea Ernst, eighth-grader Amanda Ernst, junior Grace Coyle and senior Anna McArdle earned a sixth-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay (1:56.76) in the sectional meet. The same group finished fourth (1:41.24) in the 200-yard freestyle relay at the sectional meet and went on to finish 9th in the state meet (1:39.86).

Andrea Ernst

Andrea Ernst finished third in the 200-yard freestyle (1:56.05) at the sectional meet and 10th at state meet (1:54.87). Ernst also competed in the 100-yard butterfly event earning a second-place finish (57.96) at the sectional meet and a ninth-place finish at the state meet (58.35).

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