PARRA NAMED DIVER OF THE MEET AS DOLPHINS PUT TOGETHER RECORD-SETTING PERFORMANCE AT NE-10 CHAMPIONSHIP

2/14/2025 10:00:00 PM

Worcester, MA - The College of Staten Island Swimming & Diving Team competed at the Northeast-10 Conference Championship this weekend in their final meet of the 2024-2025 season. The team broke numerous program records and collected several medals during a highly successful second appearance in the NE-10 Championship.

Thursday, February 13, 2025
The Dolphins wasted no time setting a new program record on the first day of the 2025 NE-10 Championship in the very first event of the meet on Thursday night. Competing in the 800-Yard Freestyle Relay final, Jessica Johnson broke the 200-Yard Free record as she opened the relay for the Dolphins with a time of 1:57.11. Her performance breaks a longstanding record set by Ewa Wojciechowskia in 2017. The CSI women placed seventh in the event as a team while the men took seventh. Lastly, in Thursday's preliminary Diving session Jordan Swanson and Jacqueline DeFranco posted scores of 322.90 and 318.85, placing second and fifth respectively.


Friday, February 14, 2025
The first A-finalist for the Dolphins on day two of this weekend's meet was David Fayngersh in the 200 IM. Fayngersh posted a time of 1:55.77, good for seventh place. Johnson became the second CSI A-finalist on the day when she competed in the 50-Yard Freestyle. Johnson placed eighth in the event, and in the process she broke the program record for the event with a time of 24.63. Vlad Siniagovskii narrowly missed reaching the A-Final in the 50 Free as well. However, he won the B-Final and posted a time of 21.25 that would have been for fifth in the A-final.

In the first of two relays, the CSI men narrowly missed surpassing a program record in the 200 Free Relay finishing .06 seconds behind the current record of 1:26.77. However, they did manage to set a new record in the 400 Yard Medley Relay as Siniagovskii, Fayngersh, Anthony Attenborough and Andi Bajollari combined to place fourth with a time of 3:28.58. The Dolphins would then go on to collect two medals in Diving. First Yubal Parra took the gold in 1-Meter Diving for the men with a score of 497.85, over 100 points ahead of his closest competitor. Finally, Jordan Swanson added another medal to her championship resume taking the silver in 3-Meter Diving with a score of 349.60.

Saturday, February 15, 2025
The Dolphins opened day three at the NE-10 Championship with an A-finalist in the 400 IM as William Kwan placed seventh with a time of 4:13.31. Julian Lopez also placed tenth overall after qualifying for the B-Final and posting a time of 4:13.05. Anthony Attenborough then earned the Dolphins another medal with a second-place finish in the 100 Fly. The senior finished less than two-tenths of a second off the first-place pace. Two Dolphins placed seventh in the A-Final of the 100 Breast, Jessica Johnson for the women and David Fayngersh for the men. Vlad Siniagovskii later earned CSI another medal in 100 Back with a time of 50.12.

Sunday, February 16, 2025
The Dolphins continued their impressive showing at this year's NE-10 Championship on Sunday with a new program record in a 200-Yard Medley Relay time trial.  Vlad Siniagovskii , David Fayngersh, Anthony Attenborough, and Julian Lopez combined to post a time of 1:33.78, about one second ahead of the previous record set in 2014.  Siniagovskii later appeared in the A-Final for the 200 Back and placed sixth with a time of 1:55.86. In the Women's 100 Free, Jessica Johnson placed seventh with a time of 53.50, another new program record. Attenborough would place eighth in the same event soon after with a time of 47.73. In the 200 Breast, Fayngersh took fifth in the A-Final with a time of 2:09.47 and William Kwan took ninth claiming the top spot in the B-Final. Nicholas Tartaglione also took the top spot in a B-Final in the 200 Fly, and both the CSI men and women placed 400 Free Relay squads in their respective A-Finals.

Lastly, the Dolphins claimed two more medals in Diving as Jordan Swanson and Yubal Parra each earned their second medal of the weekend. First, Swanson took the bronze in 1-Meter Diving with a score of 329.40. Parra then scored a massive win in the Men's 3-Meter Diving final with a score of 496.65. This put him nearly 200 points ahead of his next closest competitor and helped him earn Diver of the Meet honors to conclude his weekend.

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