WETHERSFIELD – Lee Schwartzman always thought about the bus ride home from Glastonbury.

It wasn’t a long ride back to Wethersfield, just over the Connecticut River bridge. But it seemed a lot longer every time his Wethersfield boys and girls swim teams returned after a loss, which happened a lot.

“That bus ride home just (stinks),” he said. “We’ve lost to other teams in my career, but we’ve also beaten those other teams.

“We’ve had close meets there, boys and girls – I was just like, ‘I want that bus ride home for you guys (to be good).’ Not where you’re just pretending to be happy because you swam well.”

This season, Wethersfield finally had a good bus ride home from Glastonbury. A few weeks ago, Schwartzman got his 300th career victory for boys and girls, with a win over the Manc

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