Athletes of the Week Dec. 7

Chris Handlin

Wrestling 195 last weekend at the Southern Slam in South Carolina, Handlin picked up a third-place finish and notched his 100th career win. “I’m coming down to 182 for the season,” he said. “I’m still a little fat, weighing 186. I want to make the most out of my senior year. My goal is to win conference and states. My favorite wrestling quote is: ‘Once you wrestle, everything else is easy.’ I know I’m going to miss high school. The wrestling experience has been awesome.” Chris is hoping to attend a military academy or possibly the Coast Guard Academy.

Kris Rushin

Cape’s junior point guard led an opening-night upset win at Smyrna on Nov. 30, bagging a game-high 21 points in a 53-51 comeback win against last year’s Henlopen Conference champions. Kris looks thicker and faster than last season, but said, “I never knew what I weighed – just never thought about it.” When Kris isn’t running the offense, he is running the floor and scoring most of his points on the front end of fast breaks and from the free throw line. “I’m thinking of running track in the spring. I’m pretty fast, and I believe I can take my game to another level,” Rushin said.

Josh Toback

The Cape swim boys opened the season at St. Andrew’s Dec. 4 and beat the Saints for the first time 91-79. Josh, a senior, swam the breast stroke on the winning 200 medley relay (151.9) in the opening event of the meet, then he came back on the final event, the 400 freestyle relay, swimming anchor to bring home the gold in 3:35. Josh also won two individual events – the 200 individual medley in 2:09.98 and the 100 butterfly in 59.3. “The fly is my best event,” Josh said. “I started swimming with the Y, and in the summer, I train six days a week at the Boys and Girls Club in Seaford.” Josh is looking at the University of Delaware or possibly the Coast Guard Academy.

Thomas Weeks

Thomas, a sophomore, is a 6-foot-2, 210-pound beast in the swimming pool. At St. Andrew’s Dec. 4, he swam the backstroke on the winning 200 medley relay and the third leg on the winning 400-meter freestyle relay, the last event of the meet. Smack dab in the middle of the meet, Thomas won the grueling 500 meters in 5:14, an event where he holds the school record of 5:08:74. He then came back and won the 100 backstroke in 1:04.55. “There’s only 15 minutes between those races, so I was a little tired,” said the affable Thomas, who loves to talk, just like his swimming siblings Molly and Jack.