Education
Qupty attended high school at The Bolles School, in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was 2007 Times-Union All-First Coast Florida Swimmer of the Year, and graduated in 2008.
Qupty attended high school at The Bolles School, in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was 2007 Times-Union All-First Coast Florida Swimmer of the Year, and graduated in 2008.
His hometown is Jerusalem. He swims the breaststroke. He and Jewish-Israeli Olympian Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or were high school roommates and best friends.
Qupty started swimming at a Jerusalem Young Men’s Christian Association. He established records in the 200 m breaststroke in the Israeli national age group for ages 14, 15, 16, and 17.
At 17 years of age, Quipty was ranked # 1 in the United States in the 200 yard breaststroke. He missed most of the 2007-2008 swim season due to a shoulder injury.
They attended Bolles together, where they were roommates for two years, swim team teammates, and became best friends. I was looking at them through my tears.
Coming from our part of the world, you don"t see that." The younger Qupty observed that "people were amazed all the time" that he – a Palestinian – and a Jew could coexist, and Shapira Bar-Or said: "lieutenant shows how simple the situation is.
If I can live with a Palestinian guy, I"m sure in our country we can live with a couple millions of Palestinians and Israelis together."
In December 2010, while a junior at University of Missouri, he established the Mizzou Invitational meet record in the 200 y breaststroke(1:5956). In November 2011, he was training in hopes of qualifying to represent Israel at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.