Once again, the D2 state meet looks like it's McFarland's to lose. The three-time defending state champs are seeded to score 310 points, nearly 100 points ahead of second-seeded Whitefish Bay.
Here's the top-1o teams seeded:
McFarland -- 310
Whitefish Bay -- 212
Madison Edgewood -- 200
Monona Grove -- 169
Shorewood -- 157
Cedarburg -- 135
Berlin/Green Lake -- 129
Waunakee -- 119
Plymouth -- 115
Fort Atkinson -- 104
Analysis: When you get 17 of 18 individual entries to state, and end up with the top seed in all three relays, you're bound to be the favorites. That's McFarland this year, in a near carbon-copy of last year, when the Spartans also had all three relays top-seeded and qualified 17 entries to state. Say what you will about the Spartans' dominance of recent years -- and there's a clear sense among other teams at wanting to see a changing of the guard on top -- this team knows how to swim extremely well this time of year. I'm not sure I've seen a team in recent years -- D1 or D2 -- that prepares itself better for the stretch run of the swim season than McFarland. Edgewood and Whitefish Bay look to be battling it out for second place, with Monona Grove and Shorewood leading a group of teams looking for a top-five finish. Among the top nine seeded times, all qualified three relays to state, so look for the medleys, 200 and 400 free relays to play a big part in sorting out the final order of teams in D2.
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After reading the chart, I think WFB should get credit for being the only team to qualify at least one person in each event.
McFarland has a swimmer in each event.
No one tops McFarland this year, although with the abundance of seniors they lose this year, that gap between them and the rest of D2 may become much smaller.
Thats 100% wrong. Both mcfarland and shorewood qualified a person in each event.
I believe the comment about Whitefish Bay is that they have a swimmer/relay in each event and also qualified a diver for state.
what other teams want to see the changing of the guard?
I think anytime a team wins three straight state championships, there's a sense among other teams that they'd like to see a changing of the guard.
In some ways, McFarland's recent run is all the more impressive because they clearly are the standard-bearer in D2, and thus you can argue they have the proverbial target on their back. And they keep rising to the challenge. It's probably a cliche, but there's an old saying that getting to the top is tough, and staying there is tougher.
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