Championship swimmers from all over the state of Colorado join together in one common place. That place is Regis Jesuit High School.

Since Regis Jesuit’s first state championship and national title in1992, the swim team has brought home twenty more state championships and three more national titles. As swim season has just started, swimmers are preparing to return the state championship banner back to Regis Jesuit.

Gavin Will, a freshman on Regis Jesuit’s varsity team, is excited for the swim season to begin saying, “I have heard a lot from upper class men that swim season is really fun and you get to create bonds.” Gavin says that he hopes to create bonds under the leadership of senior captains Trevor Bruckman, Jack Gunther, Nick Norie, and Tristan Thomas, who add a lot of excitement and volume to the team.

Also pumped up for swim season is sophomore Ty Coen. Ty says that he is excited for Saturday breakfast. Saturday breakfasts occur after practice when the swim team goes to a captain’s house. That house this year is Trevor Bruckman’s. When swimmers arrive at the house, everyone is allowed one plate of food. There is an arrangement of foods like fruit, bacon, sausage, and eggs. But the crowd favorite, Ty included, are the cheesy potatoes. Ty even says his favorite part of swim season is, “Breakfasts because of the cheesy potatoes.”

Ty also works hard when in the swimming pool. When asked if the 85% practice attendance requirement would be hard to make he replied, “I am not going to struggle making practice attendance.”

One of the most prepared people for the swim season is coach Nick Frasier-Smith. Coach Nick has been coaching at Regis Jesuit since 1989 and is a third year head coach. He showed his excitement for this year’s swim season when he said, “I am really excited for the team.” Coach Nick comes to every practice, morning and afternoon, as well as every meet to be there for his swimmers. He also demands that

they have respect for each other saying, “Onece they have the respect of each other, they are able to come together as a team.”

There are many swimmers on Regis Jesuit’s swim team that find a way to get to practice every day, swim fast, and find time to be great people. The commitment of Regis Jesuit’s swim team brings the swimmers closer together and teaches them that there is more to swimming than the individual.