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Swimming and Diving - Boys Varsity
Teams & Schedules
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2024 - 2025Head Coach: Justin FernandezIHSA State Finalist
2018 4th Place, 2023 8th Place, 2024 4th PlaceIHSA Sectional Champions
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024
Metro Catholic Association Conference Champions
2011, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Conference Champions
1959, 1964, 1965
IHSA Individual State Champions
1968 50 Free - Steve Stasukitis
The Wolfpack boys swimming and diving program uses a combination of threshold training, active rest and VO2 max swimming in addition to drylands, weights and plyo-metrics to get ready for the season. In the past 17 years, both swimming and diving teams have had 95 state qualifiers for 474 events, 121 All-Americans, 366 sectional champions and 180 conference champions. The Wolfpack swim team has been named IHSA Team Academic Achievement winners for 17 consecutive years.
The Boys Swimming and Diving season runs from mid-November to late February and is a winter sport. It has two levels; Junior Varsity and Varsity.
Coach Justin Fernandez is building on his service to the Wolfpack. The head coach for Saint Ignatius College Prep Boys Swimming and Diving is taking on Girls Swimming and Diving, too. In the time Fernandez has been involved in Saint Ignatius Aquatics, he’s produced multiple MCAC Champions, IHSA Sectional Champs, IHSA State Finalists, and NISCA All-Americans.
Coach Fernandez, a native of Chicago, swam collegiately at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 2013-2017 and served as team captain.
Team Motto: Take care of yourself, take care of each other, and the rest will take care of itself.
Team Coaches
Team News
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Pack Place 3rd at Quad
The Pack faced off against the University of Chicago Laboratory School, Lane Tech College Prep, and Jones-Payton Coop in an epic quad meet at the University of Chicago’s premier Gerald Ratner Center. Ignatius placed 3rd overall with a score of 118 points. Sophomore Charlie Cali was fifth in the 200 freestyle. Junior Alistair Guth won both the 200 IM and 100 butterfly events with a new season best. Fellow Junior Carmine Fallara won the 50 freestyle and the 100 breaststroke events. Sophomore Christian Chora went a best time in the 100 freestyle to place sixth overall. Cali returned for a runner-up performance in the 500 freestyle with Sophomore Lincoln Routier scoring fifth. Relay team of Guth, Fallara, Cali, and Routier won the 200 freestyle relay; holding off a late charge by UChicago Lab School. Junior Owen Snow was eighth in the 100 backstroke. Relay team of Guth, Fallara, Routier, and Cali returned for a runner-up finish in the 400 freestyle relay, passing Lane Tech on the last 25 yards.Read More -
Pack Place 2nd in Season Opener
The Pack kicked off the 2024-2025 season with a strong runner-up finish at the 53rd annual Warrior Relays held at Deerfield High School. Sophomore Connor Gunderson started the competition with a second-place finish in the 1-meter diving event. The relay team of Junior Alistair Guth, Freshman Andrew Arreola, Freshman Danny Scott, and Junior Carmine Fallara secured second place in the 400 medley relay. Freshman Leo Fallara, Freshman Will Rauch, Sophomore Deven Emerson, and Sophomore Charlie Cali placed third in the 500 crescendo relay. Senior Captain Rohan Robinson, Sophomore Christian Chora, and Junior Owen Snow finished sixth in the 300 IM relay. In the 200 frosh medley relay, Cali, Arreola, Scott, and Emerson earned a runner-up finish. Carmine Fallara, Snow, Chora, and Robinson placed third in the 200 freestyle relay. Guth, Cali, and Snow followed with a third-place finish in the 300 backstroke relay. Rauch, Chora, Leo Fallara, and Emerson earned fifth in the frosh 200 freestyle relay. The team of Cali, Fallara, Scott, and Guth secured fourth in the 400 freestyle relay, setting up an exciting finish. In the final race, the Wolfpack placed second in the 8x25 freestyle relay, making a dramatic surge from 5th place midway through the competition to claim second overall! The Wolfpack will next compete at the All-Chicago Quad Meet on Wednesday at the University of Chicago's Ratner Center.Read More
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