Al Catano

Al Catano

  • Award
    Swimmer
  • Week Of
    12/8/2014
  • Sport
    Men's Swimming & Diving
  • School
    Clarkson University
  • Year
    Senior
  • Position
    Breaststroke/Individual Medley/Freestyle
  • Hometown
    Ronkonkoma, N.Y.
  • High School
    Connetquot
Clarkson University senior Al Catano was selected as the Liberty League Swimmer of the Year after winning three individual events and placing third in another. On Friday, he captured the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:56.80, winning by more than three seconds. On Saturday, he started the day with a third-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle (1:45.11), but he broke a pair of pool records later in the day in the 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard backstroke. In the 100-back he finished in first with a time of 51.91 seconds, topping a nine-year-old league meet mark and a 21-year-old pool record. His performance in the 200-back set another pool mark and was just a tenth of a second short of breaking the meet record as well. In the 100-back he was nearly three-quarters of a second faster than the rest of the field and he was 1.73 seconds faster than all other participants in the 200 backstroke.