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DCU takes 4th at Conference Championships

In the words of one of the boys today: “Coach do you have extra socks with you today? You’re going to need them when I blow your socks off!” And my socks were indeed blown off. We’ve had a tough January, filled with challenging practices and an intense meet schedule, and today was proof that our hard work has not been for nothing. We walked away with so, so many victories, both big and small. There are so many great things to take note of and I could not be prouder of the team that showed up at today’s meet. We had six podium finishes, including two relay podiums, nearly every member of the team brought in varsity points for us, and of our 18 individual events, 13 of them were season or personal best times. That speaks volumes of the work we’ve done this season. A week of taper and rest will help push us into the best spot possible for our showing at Neenah next weekend, and I’m looking forward to some fast swims and the potential for some bids to state.

Final scores:
1. Chilton- 91
2. Plymouth- 86
3. Two Rivers- 81
4. DCU- 73
5. Kiel- 52
6. Berlin- 36

The spread between first and fourth is only 18 points, roughly the point value of a single relay race. Those are pretty tight margins, especially given our status as a relatively young team. (Plymouth for comparison has six seniors this season.)

Notable swims and finishes:
-1st place varsity finish (Race Kasten, Jack Monfils, Colton Blackley, Logan Filar) in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:46.00 (a season best in the 200 medley relay); 1st place jv finish (Tre Wienke, Branden Neubauer, George Atwell, Eric Jimenez-Polster) in the 200 medley relay with a time of 2:02.91
-3rd place (Ezra Linnan, Neubauer, Wienke, Monfils) in the 200 free relay with a time of 1:41.48
-5th place finish in the 400 free relay (Kasten, Linnan, Atwell, Filar) with a time of 3:43.82

-Neubauer took 9th in the 200 free with a time of 2:10.56 (a season best) and Atwell took 10th with a time of 2:10.97
-Monfils placed 1st in the 200 IM with a time of 2:07.20 (a season best) and Blackley took 6th with a time of 2:22.58, both helping score points for us
-Kasten took 2nd and helped secure some points for us in the 50 free with a time of 23.46 (a season best), Wienke took 10th with a time of 27.29 (a season best), and Jimenez-Polster tied for 14th with a time of 29.78
-Filar took 4th in the 100 fly with a time of 1:00.25 (a season best) and Blackley took 6th with a time of 1:03.67 (a season best), both helping gain points
-Linnan took 7th (and gave us some points) in the 100 free with a time of 55.94 (a season best) and Jimenez-Polster took 13th with a time of 1:04.84
-Atwell took 6th in the 500 free with a huge time of 5:58.45 (a season best by 10 seconds) and Filar took 7th with a time of 6:16.74, both helping score us some points
-Kasten took 2nd in the 100 back with a time of 58.18 (a season best) and Linnan took 5th with a time of 1:04.87 (a season best), both adding to our points
-Monfils placed 1st in the 100 breast with a time of 1:03.50 (a season best), Neubauer took 5th with a 1:11.28 (a season best), and Wienke took 7th with a time of 1:13.94 (a season best), and all three brought in points for us

We’re heading into the official last week of season, and sectionals is next week Saturday at Neenah (our first shot at D-1 sectionals). I’m looking forward to some big swims next week.

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