Page 10 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2024 MVRCS boys swimming places 10th at MIAA D2 State Championship By Emily Brennan T he Mystic Valley Regional Charter School boys swim team recently concluded their season at the MIAA Division 2 State Championships. The Eagles faced great competition around the state and fi nished 10th overall with 100 points. Leading off the meet, the team of Dylan Phan, Thomas Sodeyama-Cardoso, Kevin Sodeyama-Cardoso and Lucas Freitas dropped almost a full second off their 200-medley relay best time to earn an 11th place fi nish at 1:45.0. Sophomore Jaden Anthony followed in the 200 Freestyle scoring while placing 15th at 1:50.48. Anthony also swam the 100 freestyle later in the day but fi nished out of the scoring with a time of 50.6. In the next event, the 200 Individual Medley, in which the swimmer swims two lengths of butterfl y, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle, Mystic Valley senior captain Jason Yan fi nished 10th in a personal best time at 2:04.05, just ahead of teammates and sophomores Kevin Sodeyama-Cardoso and Christian Antonucci fi nishing 11th and 12th , respectively in 2:04.44 and 2:05.62. It is rare to have three swimmers score in any event. Shown from left to right: Lucas Freitas, Christian Antonucci, Jason Yan, Kevin Sodeyama-Cardoso, Jaden Anthony and Thomas Sodeyama-Cardoso. Thomas and Kevin Sodeyama-Cardoso took home 9th and 13th place, respectively, scoring valuable points in the 500yard freestyle. Thomas fi nished just shy of a podium appearance with a time of 5:02.13. Kevin dropped almost 5 seconds from his lifetime best to fi nish 13th in 5:07.61. With an 11th tain Jason Yan, who added a 10th place fi nish to the Eagles’ score card with a time of 2:04.05. Mystic Valley’s 200 freestyle relay team of Anthony, Yan, Lucas Freitas and Antonucci turned in a solid 8th place performance place time of 2:04.44, Kevin Sodeyama-Cardoso slashed seconds off his 200 IM for another personal best. Sodeyama-Cardoso was followed by Christian Antonucci, who fi nished 12th in 2:05.62. The Eagles’ strongest swim of the event came from senior capand a podium appearance and medal in a time of 1:33.57. As all four are underclassmen, it points to an excellent future. After the podium appearance, sophomore Antonucci was back in the water for another fantastic swim and did not disappoint, dropping nearly two seconds from his previous best time and fi nishing 10th in the 100 breaststroke at 1:01.8. Antonucci’s time Shown from left to right: Christian Antonucci, Jason Yan, Jaden Anthony and Lucas Freitas. makes him the 3rd fastest in the event in Eagles history. In the fi nal event of the day, Antonucci teamed up with Yan, Anthony and Kevin Sodeyama-Cardoso to produce a sixth-place finish, the teams highest of the day, in the 400free relay with a time of 3:24.7. With the 2023-24 season in the rearview mirror, fi fth-year Head Coach Andrew DiGiacomo has high hopes for the 2024-25 season and looks to the future Could Everett’s Jonathan DiBiaso be coming back to Boston College? By Joe McConnell F ormer Everett High School (EHS) Super Bowl-winning quarterback Jonathan DiBiaso has been on the Vanderbilt University coaching staff since February 2021, where he has served as an off ensive analyst. Previously, he was a graduate assistant at Boston College for three years. While with the Eagles, DiBiaso assisted the off ensive staff in fi lm breakdown, practice prepJOHN MACKEY & ASSOCIATES ~ Attorneys at Law ~ * PERSONAL INJURY * REAL ESTATE * FAMILY LAW * PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY * LANDLORD/TENANT DISPUTES 14 Norwood Street Everett, MA 02149 Phone: (617) 387-4900 Fax: (617) 381-1755 WWW.JMACKEYLAW.COM aration and all game plan and scouting report materials. He also worked with the team’s offensive coordinators and quarterbacks. It’s rumored that the Everett native just might be returning to the Heights as the football team’s new quarterbacks coach, which will help fi ll out new head coach Bill O’Brien’s staff . According to BC’s Director of Football Communications Brendan Flynn, the announcement could be made soon. Flynn told The Advocate on Tuesday (Feb. 27) that he “hopes (the announcement) will go out this week.” Before his fi rst incarnation at Boston College, Jonathan was an assistant football coach at Catholic Memorial School in 2017, where his dad – the legendary John DiBiaso – is the school’s head coach. Prior to that, he was a part-time intern with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the 2015-2017 training camps. DiBiaso was a Dartmouth College quarterback from 2013-15 before transferring to Tufts to complete his undergraduate career. He earned a bachelor’s degree in child development there in 2018, before receiving his master’s in sports administration from Boston College in 2020. Jonathan was of course a standout quarterback at EHS – a position his dad played with profi ciency in the 1970s, when his grandfather was the Tide’s head coach – after leading two Huskie Pop Warner squads to the national championship game at Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Among his accomplishments on the Crimson Tide campus, the lefty signal caller was a twotime All-Scholastic. During his high school career, he threw for 103 touchdown passes, which set a new standard for excelof the program with great excitement and anticipation. “After coming in 3rd last year, and the number of seniors we lost to graduation, we came into this meet with expectations to set the stage for a young group of swimmers over the next couple of years,” said coach DiGiacomo. “Overall, it was a very good meet and as a team we will use this as a learning experience to continue to aim for a state championship in the coming years.” JONATHAN DIBIASO lence in the state. He also holds the single-season state record for passing touchdowns with 44 that he accomplished in 2011, his senior year. He broke his own record of 43 that he established as a junior. During his junior and senior campaigns (2010-2011), he helped guide those clubs to 25 straight wins and back-to-back Super Bowl titles. He was chosen the Massachusetts Gatorade Football Player of the Year after his senior season.
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