The Small State Invite is this Saturday at Shorewood. Although several top D2 teams won't be there, it should provide a good preview of a number of D2 contenders and top teams as the season heads toward sectionals and the state meet in November. Among the teams at the meet: Sturgeon Bay/Sevatopol, Edgewood, Whitefish Bay, McFarland and the hosts.
Watch out for Shorewood swimming in comfortable surroundings. The team's terrific tandem of senior Elli Sellinger and junior Clare Chamberlain are having oustanding seasons. The team has also added some much-needed depth, notably freshman Ellen Stello, who has racked up several top-30 times this season, including a very solid 5:21.92 in the 500 free.
As Shorewood heads for sectional qualifying, it will be interesting to see how coach Robby McCabe arranges his relays (and whether the Small State meet gives a hint of how he'll do it). The Greyhounds may have enough depth to get three relays through to state. But stacking both Sellinger and Chamberlain on two relays makes those relays a threat to win; last year, the duo had the two-fastest splits in the D2 state meet 400 free relay (faster than Sauk Prairie's Abby Diehl and Monona Grove's Hayley Martin, who won the D2 sprint titles last year and anchored their teams' 400 free relays.)
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Another threat is clearly Milton. Any relay that gets both Holmquist twins and Haney will be very hard to beat. They may well spread things out at sectionals, to get all three relays in, then restack them for state.
I've checked twice (two different sources) and both have Milton listed as swimming at the invite at Janesville Craig this Saturday. Did they switch out and go to Small State instead? I'll correct it right away if they did; I didn't include them (and would have) because I saw them listed as swimming at Janesville.
Sorry, I meant a threat at state. They will not be at Shorewood this weekend. The have declined to submit times to WISCA, so they may sneak up on some people.
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