Every single one of the Pine Bush swimmers heading to this weekend’s New York State Federation boys’ swimming and diving championships on Friday and Saturday has been there before.

Two of those swimmers – Tomek Oakes and Bryce Sloley – will swim in the maximum four events, and Liam Blackwell and Jack Vuksanovich will compete individually for the first time.

“We have a lot more veterans with a lot more experience in it,” Oakes said. “We’re not going to be like, ‘Oh shoot, it’s a big meet.’ It’s a large meet, but we’re not going in there as shocked, but definitely looking at it from the standpoint that we’re all a lot faster than last year.”

The swimming preliminaries will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday at the Kelsey Patridge Bird Natatorium at Ithaca College. The diving championships will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Friday and will be competed in in its entirety.

Kaeden Fisher will make his second trip to the state meet, looking to improve on his 21st place finish. His qualifying score of 499.30 has him seeded 14th among the state’s divers.

Oakes will compete in both the 200-meter individual medley and the 100-yard freestyle. He posted his best finish last year in the when he finished 28th in the Federation. He enters this season seeded 22nd in the event.

Oakes enters the meet seeded 16th in the 200-yard individual medley after finishing 40th in the event last year. His best time of 1:55.20 is about 6 seconds better than his time at the state meet.

“I’m happy with my IM time,” Oakes said. “I thought I could have gone a little bit harder in my 100 free. States is definitely where I’ll be going all out and giving my best shots in my last year.”

Sloley only competed in one individual event last year: the 100-yard butterfly, where he finished 41st. He will be back in the event again this year, and he also will swim the 50-yard freestyle.

“It was really fun,” Sloley said. “I wasn’t used to it, but in the end, it was a really nice experience.”

He’s in better position than he was last year as his best time of 51.17 seconds in 100-yard butterfly has him in a three-way tie for the 13th seed. He has already swam 2 seconds faster than last year’s state meet.

He is seeded 30th in the 50-yard freestyle.

“I’m hoping to break 50 (seconds) in my 100 fly,” Sloley said. “I’m hoping to get another school record for the 200 free relay and maybe get a school record for the medley relay as well.”

Oakes and Sloley are swimming both relay events. They’ll be joined by Blackwell and Dominic Licardi in the medley relay, which enters the meet seeded 11th. Vuksanovich will join Licardi, Oakes and Sloley in the 200-yard freestyle relay, which is seeded 12th.

“I’m hoping we get top 10 in the medley and 200 free,” Oakes said. “We’ll see.”

Vuksanovich is seeded 53rd, tied with Newburgh’s Angelo Reade, in the 100-yard freestyle, and Blackwell is seeded 39th in the 100-yard backstroke.

“We’ve already been there last year for the experience,” Oakes said. “Now we have it where we’ll be able to compete now that we’ve had experience, there’s no more stress going into it. Now, we have a lot more individuals qualifying. So, it’s definitely going to help us put our name out there for this year.”