Corning’s Sierzant and Crisco share Star-Gazette/Chief swimming award

• The pair led the Corning Hawks to a second consecutive Section 4 Class A crew championship.

Corning’s JP Sierzant and Joey Crisco had been relay companions and particular person standouts for the Hawks in boys swimming & diving this season.

Those two are teamed up once more because the Elmira Star-Gazette/Corning Leader’s Co-Athletes of the Year for the 2025-26 boys swimming & diving season.

Their efforts helped the Hawks safe a second consecutive Section 4 Class A crew title amongst quite a few dual-meet wins.

Sierzant and Crisco put a robust ultimate contact on the season by serving to Corning’s 200-yard freestyle relay to ninth place total and eighth amongst public colleges on the New York State Public High School Athletic Association championships at Ithaca College.

Those two had been additionally a part of the Hawks’ 14th-place 200 medley relay on the state meet.

They shined from begin to end in the course of the season.

Crisco, a sophomore, received the 200-yard particular person medley and 100 breaststroke on the sectional meet, the place he was a part of Corning triumphs within the 200 freestyle relay and 400 freestyle relay.

He positioned seventeenth in each the 200 particular person medley (1:59.6) and 100 breaststroke (58.73) on the state meet.

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Along along with his relay efforts, Sierzant’s senior season included twenty sixth place within the 50 freestyle (21.93) and thirty fourth within the 100 freestyle (48.53) on the state championships.

He was a two-time particular person champion on the Section 4 Class A meet, taking the 50 freestyle (21.89) and 100 freestyle (48.62). Sierzant helped the Hawks win the sectional championship within the 200 freestyle relay.

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