RHODE ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- February 29, 2020
- Katherine Coleman Aquatics Center
- Full Team Scores
- Meet Info
- Results
FINAL TOP 5 TEAMS
- Bishop Hendricken High School 426
- Barrington High School 329
- (Tie 3rd) Portsmouth High School 168
- (Tie 3rd) Moses Brown School 168
- Cumberland High School 144
The Bishop Hendricken boys repeated as champions at the 2020 Rhode Island Boys State Championships, winning the meet by nearly 100 points. CJ Sheldon took down the State Record in the 50 free. His 21.17 was just a hundredth shy of his lifetime best. He had already set the mark once this season with a 21.30 in January. Sheldon swept the sprints, coming up just 4 tenths shy of the 100 free State Record in 46.69.
Freshman teammate Nick Andrews swept his individual races. In the 200 free, he dropped over a second to win the race in 1:45.91. Andrews used his back-half speed to take the edge over Nkhs’ Gresh Laing (4:49.42) in the 500 free, winning by hundredths in 4:49.34 as he held off a final surge from Laing. That was his first time under 4:50.
Cumberland’s Ian Horstkamp-Vinekar also swam to multiple titles. Horstkamp-Vinekar, an NJIT commit, won the 100 fly (50.55) and 100 back (52.09). South County’s Drew Jalbert took multiple individual titles with wins in the 200 IM (1:55.17) and 100 breast (59.27).
Additional Event Winners
- Boys 200 medley relay: Barrington, 1:37.30
- Boys 200 free relay: Bishop Hendricken, 1:28.88
- Boys 400 free relay: Bishop Hendricken, 3:14.67
