Give Shorewood and Whitefish Bay a lot of credit. The two Div. 2 powers in girls swimming aren't in the same conference, but they have a tradition of swimming against each other in an early-season dual meet. The two teams are expected to be among the top five or so squads this year competing for the D2 state title.
This week, they met again, and Shorewood eked out an 87-83 win, clinching the victory with a win in the meet-ending 400 free relay. Shorewood stars Claire Chamberlain and Elli Sellinger led the way, with four individual wins between them and helping Shorewood to wins in the 400 free and 200 medley relays. Ellen Stello provided the depth Shorewood has been looking for, with wins in the 100 fly and 500 free. WBay kept it close with its superior depth, and the team picked up wins from Maggie Smith in 50 free and Lauren Van Loon in the 200 free, along with its 200 free relay.
These two teams will be interesting to watch as the season progresses, and they are a study in contrasts. Shorewood has the kind of top-tier talent that goes a long way at the state meet, but WBay has the kind of depth that can qualify lots of individuals, and all three relays, for state. They both should be fun to watch. And kudos to those involved at each school for maintaining this compelling non-conference rivalry.
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Phil,
Any chance you can post or link to results for these meets?
Good question.
I get results from a variety of sources -- some just the agate published in either the Madison or Milwaukee papers (which is where the Shorewood/Whitefish Bay results came from). I'm pretty faithful about checking those papers every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday for results.
I also check the Fox Valley papers about once a week, and assorted others. Some papers (more precisely, their websites) do a pretty good job of covering their local swim team -- two that come to mind are the Door County Advocate, which does a very good job of covering the well-established Sturgeon Bay programs, and the Baraboo News Republic, which covers the Baraboo programs.
The Madison papers, of course
(and to some extent the Milwaukee paper),have really fallen off in their coverage of non-major prep sports, which was part of the impetus for starting this blog. Because of that, I've tried to mine a few sources in the area -- Monona Grove results (because I write about the girls and boys program for the local weekly paper) and some Madison East results (because I know the team's scorer.) A few programs (Madison Memorial) sometimes post their results on-line, and I occasionally get some results from other sources.
It's a long-winded answer, but as this blog is now a year old, I'd like to continue to find ways to make it the definitive site for news about Wisconsin high school swimming. A big part of that would be getting more results, and posting them on-line. I want to try to avoid becoming a web-type-setter, and continue to focus on writing about swim news and meets, but in the end doing both would make the site more definitive (which is kind of the goal). I'm working on ways to get the word out to coaches about their interest in submitting results.
In the end, if you have results, feel free to send them in!
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