All-American Long Islanders swimming to success — and into Ivy League

Source: New York Post

There’s something in the water on Long Island.   Lifelong friends and brainiac All-American distance swimmers Johnny Macko and Sasha Karafin are making a huge splash in the Bellmore-Merrick school district as super seniors who will dive headfirst into Ivy League pools next year.   “We’ve always just been on the pool deck together,” Brown University-bound Macko, who was recently named Mepham High School’s salutatorian with a 101.