It's official -- SB/S wins with 201 points, ending DeForest's three-year run as state champs. Norskies finish 2nd with 186, , Whitefish Bay 3rd with 179.5, Shorewood 4th with 167, Milton 5th with 153, and Sauk in 6th with 141. Great meet; thanks for tuning in.
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That should do it; final results aren't in, but Sturgeon Bay should have their first-ever D2 title. They finished 6th overall in the 400 free, with DeForest 4th. Whitefish Bay gets another great anchor leg from senior Maggie Smith to pull out the win. Sauk Prairie 2nd, and Shorewood comes out of the first heat to grab third in the relay.
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DeForest has to win the 400 free relay, and SB/S finish 9th or lower, to overcome SB/S lead. It's SB/S at 175, with DeForest at 156. DeForest is seeded 2nd in the 400 free relay, SB/S 5th.
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Emily McClellan of Delevan-Darien, who's been terrific all season long, comes back and takes the 100 breaststroke in 1:04.97. Plymouth's Kate Criter led most of the race, only to finish 3rd. Wauk. Catholic Memorial's Anna Meinholz finishes 3rd, with Milton's Jennah Haney in 4th. 400 free relay coming up.
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Team scores thru the backstroke -- St. Bay -- 175; DeForest 144, Shorewood 135, Milton 134, Whitefish Bay 125.5, Sauk 107. St. Bay has no breaststrokers, while Milton has Jennah Haney contending for a title, and DeForest has Lindsey Verhulst. St. Bay/S looks to have the lead leading into the 400 free relay.
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Sauk Prairie junior Alison Meng continues her great night, with another win, this in the 100 back. She edges Milton's Katelyn Holmquist and Grafton's Sadie Nening. Defending champ Siri Smits of Berlin/Green Lake finishes 5th. Meng goes 57.19 in what was a very close race with the top three separated by less than three-tenths of a second.
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Sturgeon Bay/S just rips off a magnificant win in the 200 free relay -- 1:36.02, breaking the previous state record set last year by Monona Grove by nearly three seconds. This relay has been terrific all season, but what a race! And with pretty safe relay starts -- no real risk-taking by the SB/S swimmers. DeForest 2nd, Elkhorn 3rd, Edgewood 4th. SB/S, if they can get some decent results out of their backstrokers, may be headed for the state title. But DeForest is still there.
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Watching Kelsey Hojan-Clark swim is like watching a perfectly tuned athlete. She wins the 500 free, smashing the state record, in 4:50.19, nearly four seconds under the former state record. Casey Wolter for DeForest finishes 2nd, in 5:04.65, while Clare Chamberlain finishes 3rd. A magnificant night from Hojan-Clark -- two state records, taken from what is generally considered one of D2's all-time best swimmers, Jamie Belfor of Shorewood.
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The team race is close, but Sturgeon Bay/Sevastopol, which has been swimming well all night long, is now in first with 120 points, followed by Shorewood 100, DeForest 93, Whitefish Bay 87.5, Milton 84, Sauk 83, Grafton 81. SB/S has its big relays to come -- the 200 free relay and the 400 free relay. But watch Milton -- they have a lot of back-half points seeded in this meet.
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Elli Sellinger of Shorewood moved over to the 100 free this year, and it proved the right move for the senior. She wins the 100 free in 52.69; Savanna Townsend of SB/S 2nd, with Kelsey Kohlbeck of Sauk in 3rd and Sierra Townsend of SB/S -- who held the lead for much of the race swimming in lane 1 -- in 4th. Top-seeded Chelsea Statz of DeForest moves down to 5th.
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In a race with four swimmers under 58 seconds, Sauk's Alison Meng wins the 100 fly in 57.06. DeForest's Leah Winckler moves up two spots to finish 2nd, with MG's Kelsey Millin in 3rd, and Elkhorn's Terrin Seaver 4th.
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Two great races just concluded. Milton's Jennah Haney beats two-time defending champ Clare Chamberlain in the 200 IM, 2:04.83 to 2:04.98. The two were neck and neck virtually the entire race, with Chamberlain holding a slight edge off the turn for the final 50 free. But Haney came down the final 15 yards and just out-touched her rival from Shorewood. Delavan-Darien's Emily McClellan 3rd, 2:08.41.
The, freshman Savanna Townsend of SB/S just edged Whitefish Bay's Maggie Smith in the 50 free -- 23.86 to 23.89. It's the third year in a row that Smith has finished 2nd in the event. Alli Bellford of New Berlin Eisenhower 3rd, while Sauk's Kelsey Kohlbeck and SB/S's McKenzie Trelka moved out of the first heat to take top-6 finishes in the 50 free.
Team scores thru the 50: Milton -- 84; Grafton (with 33 diving points) 78; SB/S -- 71; Whitefish Bay -- 71; Shorewood -- 67; DeForest -- 62. All seem to be swimming well; DeForest is creeping up from its seeds, but so is SB/S and Milton.
Brookfield Academy's Kelsey Hojan-Clark with an amazing swim -- 1:49.13, breaks all-time record set by Shorewood's Jamie Belfor in 1996. Dominating win; Shorewood's Elli Sellinger 2nd in 1:55. DeForest's Wolter and Statz moved up in their seedings, finishing 3rd and 5th. An incredible swim by the junior from Brookfield Academy.
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Whitefish Bay off to a great start with a win the medley -- 1:48.47. St. Bay 2nd, Milton moves up from 8th seed to finish 3rd. Great anchor leg by Whitefish Bay's Maggie Smith. DeForest moved up as well, from 16th seed to finish 13th.
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Full results for all 16 divers, and team scores through the first event, are now up on the WIAA website.
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The first event -- the 200 medley relay -- might provide some hints as to how this very tight meet will go. All five of the highest-seeded teams in the meet -- Sturgeon Bay/Sevatopol, DeForest, Whitefish Bay, Milton and Shorewood -- all have relays in the medley. All but DeForest are in the second, faster heat.
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We're about 30 minutes away from the start of the swim meet; proving that swimmers are multi-dimensional, one of the senior captains of the Monona Grove girls swim team -- Abby Graf -- will sing the national anthem for tonight's swim meet.
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Senior Kristin Capcik of Milwaukee Lutheran caps a fine career with a win in the D2 diving competition. She edges Whitnall's Rachel Stave by about six points to win. Capcik was 2nd last year and 4th as a sophomore. Grafton's McElligot and Zarem go 3-4, and their 33 points is two more than Grafton was seeded to score in the dive portion of the meet. New Berlin West sophomore Katie Hausmann gets 5th, while Edgewood sophomore Sheridan Hearn gets the last spot on the podium with a 6th place finish.
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Dive meet is over; results soon. A pile of swimmers are waiting to get into the Nat locker rooms in the annual jam-up at the downstairs doors.
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As the swim meet progresses, feel free to ask questions and comments as to particular swimmers. I'll try to get to them as time allows. Send to comments (as opposed to the personal email address posted here) on this blog item. We'll track down results; the WIAA plans to post results as well on it website.
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Grafton divers Molly McElligot and Katelyn Zarem hold down the 3rd and 4th place spots as the final round of diving takes place.
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Capcik of Milwaukee Lutheran has taken the lead in diving, drawing a big cheer from the Milwaukee Lutheran fans here at the Nat. Stave of Whitnall is second. Three dives to go before the dive meet concludes.
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We're going to reformat; all new posts will be on the top of the post, instead of scrolling down to see new posts. Also, please induge mis-spellings, typos and whatnot -- the swim meet will be fast-paced, so a few errors may creep in. Divers are wrapping up; swimmers are making their way into the Nat, and a good crowd is already here -- with DeForest fans sitting in their traditional spot nearest the starting blocks.
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OK, we're blogging the state meet live. It's 2:50 p.m., and the D2 divers are underway. Whitnall freshman Rachel Stave is the top-seeded diver, with a sectional score of 429.75. In the random order of diving, she's 4th among the 16 divers. Kristin Capcik, a senior from Milwaukee Lutheran, is seeded second. She was runner-up last year, and the highest-placing finisher returning from last year's state dive meet.
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We're halfway through diving; Stave, Capcik and Edgewood's Sheridan Hearn are all among the top 5 as of right now.
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7 comments:
So cool Phil. I look forward to reading your posts! Are you going to do the same tomorrow for
D1?
As of right now, I'm timing on deck for D1. They were really short of timers a few weeks ago, and I volunteered. But if they have enough timers, I may try to to do this for D1.
I will at the D1 meet tomorrow so look forward to reading your take on the meet.
Almost feel like I am there. Is the crowd really into it?
Where are you sitting to make the updates?
Sorry -- accidently posted my response on the first blogging post, not this one. But it's a great atmosphere -- intense team race and some great races.
Thanks Phil!!
Thanks for keeping us updated. I am sure that the crowd went wild at the SB/S win. Perhaps with all the great times and the amount of records that have fallen again this year, we can give credit to the swimmers and forget the swimsuits. It appears, that the times have dropped significantly this year. Personally, I am happy to see all of the drops. The swimsuit drama last year really tainted the great swims all the racers had last year. Now we can give them the credit they deserve as well.
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