These Syosset boys are off the deep end.
The North Shore swimming and diving team won an unfathomable 90 consecutive dual meets — spanning back to early 2015. They also splashed over Plainview Old-Bethpage’s 88-win streak from the 1970s.
“The win streak and our accomplishments are really impressive, but I think the friendships and the memories that come out of varsity are more important to me,” junior Max Yao told The Post.
“I feel like the team has just made me grow to become a better person,” he added after winning No. 90, which came over Garden City in early December.
The bond shared by Syosset is something tighter than their swim caps, as tradition runs deep within the storied program, according to senior captain Lucas Avni.
“We have some memorabilia that gets passed down from person to person to try and keep the team spirit alive,” he said.
Yao was given an heirloom swimsuit during his eighth-grade season, when he was named the varsity team’s rookie of the year, which quickly deposited him into the “family” tone among the guys.
The all-for-one mindset came in clutch during a neck-and-neck meet with Hewlett that year, when the streak could have dried up many years sooner, he recalled of coach Mike Cipollino’s historic bunch.
“The captain just gave us a hype-up speech, talking about how we can win this and that we have what it takes to win,” said Yao.
“It really helped us pull through in the end. … It was super exciting, I remember that really clearly.”
Moments like that served as all the motivation teammates like Avni needed to keep the streak afloat.
“I knew [my freshman year] that we wanted to have this going as long as possible,” he said.
“Every day, I just worked as hard as I could to keep it going for the people who started it before me.”
Now, Avni — he dearly holds onto the swim cap of a record-setting alum from the 1990s — has his sights set on the program’s future for when he’ll be away at college next year.
“Everyone wants to try and hit that 100 mark,” he said of next season’s goal. “I’d be thrilled to see it. In fact, if I’m free the day of that dual meet, I’m going to come back from college, if I can, to watch it.”
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