Few teams can say they made school history and broke two records in one day. The boys swim team is one of the exceptions.

Affectionately called the “Dream Team” by Head Coach Monika Chiappetta, the boys are led by an experienced group of seniors, including Jake Barson, Tim McDonough, Alex Nikitin, Tony Sarussi, Ryan Smith and Joe Ure. Juniors Kuba Debkowski, Dave Myers and Jon Windhorst are also helping the team with his experience.

There are also several sophomores that stand out among the team, including Kamil Halaj and Filip Pancerz.

Freshmen Josh Dellorto, Nate Pardini, Jake Pors and Andrew Tavares are also proving themselves to be valuable members of the team. Dellorto broke the 500 freestyle record, which was previously held by Pancerz, last Saturday at the Wildstang Invitational by six seconds.

“It feels good to have my name up there as an individual event,” Dellorto said. “It made my day.”

Despite losing the record, Pancerz has nothing but support for his friend and teammate.

“It’s nice to see records get broken,” Pancerz said.

Chiappetta is very proud of having records broken so early, both in Dellorto’s RMHS career and in the season.

“It says something about our program that we have freshmen breaking records,” Chiappetta said. “And it’s only the second week of competing.”

Dellorto and Pancerz were also on the record-breaking relay team on Saturday, Dec. 13 along with Barson and Debkowski. The team broke the 400 relay record by over 10 seconds.

“Going into the meet, breaking that record was our main goal,” Barson said.

Being the lone freshman on the relay team is not a problem for Dellorto, who has been enjoying his first season with the Mustangs and working with the upperclassmen.

“It’s cool being on a team with so many seniors as a freshman,” Dellorto said. “The seniors are pretty fun. I like them.”

However, the team’s success on Saturday is not limited two broken records. They also won their Wildstang Invitational for the first time in the school’s history.

“It was an awesome feeling; I don’t think anyone was expecting to win it going in,” Barson said. “We knew that there were going to be a lot of good teams there, and it was amazing that we were able to keep up with them.”

Chiappetta believes that the team’s ability to work together helped contribute to their success.

“It was a relay meet,” Chiappetta said, “and with relays, it’s not just putting your best guys together; it’s everyone working together.” Having already broken two records, while only being three meets into their season, the team is excited and optimistic about the rest

of this year. “I think it makes them realize that they’re not fully ready yet

for those things,” Chiappetta said. “If they’re breaking records now, when they’re sore and tired, and not totally in shape, then when they’re tapered, in shape, and ready, they’re going to be on fire.”

Chiappetta feels that the team has the potential to re-do the record board this year and believes that they are close to breaking almost all of them.

“Of the 11 swimming events, 10 of the records should fall,” Chiappetta said.