...they are pretty good.
A couple of commentators on the blog have mentioned the prowess of Milton's incoming freshmen class. Yesterday's Milton Invite showed just how good they are.
Milton won its invitational 300-283 over Monona Grove Saturday in a meet that saw the two solid Division 2 programs go back-and-forth for the top spot throughout the meet. Milton came out on top in the end, and it can thank its freshmen for putting the team there.
Milton won the opening 200 medley relay, with freshman Katelyn Holmquist getting her relay off to an early lead on the backstroke leg, and fellow freshman Meagan Roberts providing a solid anchor leg to clinch the relay win. Twin sisters Katelyn and Abby Holmquist also swam legs on Milton's winning 200 free relay, while Abby Holmquist, Roberts, and freshman Katelyn Kirk comprised three-fourths of the team's 1st-place 400 free relay. The Holmquist sisters also contributed three wins in individual events -- Abby in the 200 and 100 frees (the 200 by nearly four seconds over multiple state qualifier Emily McClellan of Delavan-Darien), and Katelyn in the 100 back with an eye-popping time of 59.57. Roberts and Kirk provided top-four finishes in their individual events, as well.
Notable for Milton was that it won its invitational without a first-place in an individual event from star senior Jennah Haney. She twice finished second in what were the two most exciting and closest races of the meet -- to MG's Kelsey Millin in the 100 butterfly (where Haney swam a 59.33 to Millin's 59.13), and to D-D's McClellan in the 100 breaststroke in a match-up between two of the five swimmers who broke the state record last year in the race (Haney swam a 1:08.23 to McClellan's 1:08.10 -- very fast times for this stage of the season).
Milton had some big holes to fill after the graduations of state qualifiers Hailey Foss and Kaitlyn Kincaide. Looks like they are well on their way to filling them this year.
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Would you say they are comparable to that McFarland Boys Freshman Class last year? And you are correct, no doubt are they very good.
That's a pretty high standard -- McFarland qualified five freshmen in seven individual events this past year at D2 state, scoring by my count 68 points. Plus three of the freshmen -- Ryan O'Donnell, Jacob Mandli, and Collin Morgan -- contributed legs on winning relays, including the out-of-sight state record 400 free relay.
Other schools with impressive freshmen classes of late include the Hartland-Arrowhead and Muskego girls teams last year, each of whom qualified three freshmen for the D1 state meet
Having said that, Milton's freshmen put on an impressive show at their invite.
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