In a year that
marked one of the most successful years in team history, the DCY Doorfin swim
team save their best efforts for the last meet – the YMCA State Championships
held at the Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer, WI. The team place 5th
out of the 24 teams in the combined score, girls placing 7th and the
boys placing 3rd in the meet. The team recorded 79% best times for
the meet in 172 total events. (151 individual and 21 relays). The 8-under
girls’ team stole the show, placing 1st in Wisconsin in total
points.
Highlights
included a spectacular performance in both the 100 medley relay (Cassie Rankin,
Sylvia Townsend, Julia Michalski, and Katie Norton) placing 2nd and State Champions in the 100 free
relay. Cassie Rankin had a spectacular
meet, crowned the State Champion in
the 25 free, 50 free, and 100 individual medley. Cassie was out- touched in the
100 free by less then a 1/10th of a second, just missing the full
sweep of 4 individual State Champion titles. Our team ended up with 6 State Records, 14 State Championship
titles, 11 – 2nd places, and 6 -3rd places in the meet.
State Champion Relays: 8 – under
girls 100 free relay, 13-14 boys 200 medley relay (Brock Aune, Trent Ehlers,
Spencer Klika, Max McHugh).
15-18 boys 200 medley relay and 15-18
boys 200 free relay (Macoy Neinas, Jared Klika, Ryan Scripp, Max McHugh) both
of these relays were set new state
records. The same boys were also State Champions in the 15-18 boys 400 free
relay.
Individual State Champions:
Cassie Rankin
(above)
Jared Klika,
15-18 boys 50 freestyle
Ryan Scripp,
100 freestyle- State Record
Max McHugh won
all of his individual events, setting 3 state records in 4 event; 13-14 boys
100 Breast-State Record, 200 Breast-State Record, 50 Freestyle-State Record and 200 Individual
Medley-State Champion. It was a tough weekend for Max, swimming 5 relays and 4
individual events-ending with 8 State Championship titles, 1-2nd
place.
We will be
taking 5 swimmers, Macoy Neinas, Ryan Ehlinger, Ryan Scripp, Jared Klika, and
Max McHugh, to the YMCA National Championships in Greensboro North Carolina
next week.
In one of the
most exciting events of the meet, Katie Kaminski also qualified for Nationals
in the 200 breaststroke, dropping 3 seconds in the race to make the time cut. We qualified 19 events for Nationals this
past weekend.
2nd Place Finishers:
Cassie Rankin,
8-under 100 free and 8-under girls 100
medley relay
Abigial
Schauske, 11-12 girls 100 butterfly
Katie Kaminski,
15-18 girls 200 breaststroke
Drew Rass, 9-10
100 breaststroke
Brokc Anue,
13-14 100 breaststroke and boys 13-14 200 medley relay
Jared Klika,
15-18 boys 100 butterfly
Jesper Johnson,
11-12 500 freestyle
Ryan Scripp,
15-18 boys 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly
3rd Place Finishers:
Brock Anue,
13-14 boys 200 breaststroke
Drew Rass, 9-10
boys 50 breast and 100 individual medley
Christiana
Brau, 9-10 girls 200 freestyle
Jared Klika,
15-18 boys 100 free
Ryan Scripp,
15-19 200 individual medley
Our 9-10 boys
also placed 4th in the 200 free and medley relays.
