Coming into this season, Palmyra-Macedon boys swimming and diving head coach Jason Stevens did not have high team expectations, particularly after graduating seven seniors from last year’s squad.

“The expectation at the beginning of the year was that we were going to focus more on ourselves, individual goals versus what we’re going to do in comparison to other teams,” Stevens said.

Tri-captain Quinton Jones added, “We lost seven seniors who were contributors to the team, and that was big.

“It was like this year was going to be a recovery period, but we started to notice as the season went on that we were getting better and better as a team. We just had a lot of depth.”
Tri-captain Clem York said, “Everyone was improving at the same rate, which I think helped a lot.”

The team’s achievements of winning the regular season and league championships, however, surpassed everyone’s expectations.

It was a game that was played with a basketball and for most of the forty minutes it was used for the purpose of which it was designed. But at other moments it was used as a football, soccer ball and even a volleyball.

But the most important role it played here Wednesday was to bring 19 seniors from the Wayne County girls basketball league together for one final game.

The game wasn’t really about who won or lost, it was about friendship, fun and smiles. For some of the girls from Clyde-Savannah, North Rose-Wolcott, Lyons, Sodus, Williamson, Gananda and East Rochester it might have been the last game of organized basketball they ever played.

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