Whitewater swim teams making a splash in young season

Tue, 12/11/2007 - 10:19am
By: The Citizen

The Whitewater swim team has made excellent showings at the three meets thus far with many swimmers already qualifying for the state meet in various events. Results are as follows:

The Wildcat Big Splash Invitational took place on Nov.17 involving 19 teams. The Wildcat men earned a second place trophy and the Wildcat girls finished in 9th place.

Men’s 200 free relay (Jordan Steen, Jaron Beckwith, Alex Menke and Peter Menke) clinched the state cut with time of 1:35.58 and took second.

Men’s 400 free relay (Steen, Beckwith, Alex Menke and Peter Menke) clinched the state cut with time of 3:31.72 and took third.

Individual results

Jaron Beckwith: 2nd in 200 free with state cut 1:52.78; 5th in 100 back 1:00.74

Peter Menke: 1st in 100 breast with state cut 1:05.53; 8th in 50 free at 24.36

Alex Menke: 2nd in 100 fly with 58.05; 4th in 200 IM with state cut 2:10.74

Ben Starkey: 6th in 100 fly 1:00.85

Jordan Steen:6th 100 free 54.49 6th in 200 IM at 2:19.23

Brandon Mason: 5th 100 free 54.30; 6th 200 free at 2:07.76

Kristen Bohrer: 5th in 100 breast with state cut 1:15.21; 6th 200 IM at 2:31.86

The Whitewater Wildcat Men earned an impressive first place finish and the Wildcat Women earned second at the Creekside Meet held on Nov. 20.

In the Men’s 200 Medley Relay, Wildcat men took first, second and third.

First with a state cut time of 1:50.31 was (Beckwith, Peter Menke, Alex Menke, Brandon Mason)

Second was (Alex Todd, Patrick Mason, Chad Lawrence, Kelly Menchinger)

Third was (Kyle Borcik, Vishnu Iyengar, Justin Dickinson, Josh Parker)

In the Women’s 200 Medley Relay, Wildcat women took first and second.

First was (Alex Fedorchak, Jauren Jennings, Carly Fogg, Grace Abshire)

Second was (Hailey Harden, Teresa Hill, Danielle Grieco, Nataleah Michael)

The Men’s 400 free relay Wildcat Men took 1, 2, 3 again!

First with state cut (Alex Menke, Peter Menke, Brandon Mason, Beckwith)

Second was (Todd, Toby King, Borcik, Patrick Mason)

Third was (Iyengar, Dickinson, Danny Forero, Kelly Menchinger)

In the Women’s 400 free relay, the Wildcat women took 1, 2, 3!

First was (Jessica Heimann, Tanya Feilke, Grace Abshire, Kristen Bohrer)

Second was (Zuri Coleman, alex Fedorchak, Carly Fogg, Hailey Harden)

Third was (Nataleah Michael, Maria DeCotis, Teresa Hill, Lauren Jennings)

The Men’s 200 free relay Wildcat Men took first and second.

First was (Todd, Patrick Mason, King, Brandon Mason)

2nd (Menchinger, Chad Lawrence, Forero, Borcik)
Women’s 200 free relay: Wildcat Women took first and second.

First was (Jessica Heimann, Tanya Feilke, Zuri Coleman, Kristen Bohrer)

Second was (Danielle Grieco, Maria DeCotis, Nataleah Michael, Teresa Hill)

Individual Men
Alex Menke: 1st 200 Free; 1st 500 free with state cut at 5:02.50

Chad Lawrence: 2nd 200 free; 2nd 100 fly

Kelly Menchinger: 3rd 200 free

Jaron Beckwith: 1st 200 IM with a state cut at 2:11.53; 1st 100 fly

Toby King: 2nd 200 IM; 2nd 100 back

Danny Forero: 3rd 200 IM; 3rd 100 back

Peter Menke: 1st 50 free; 2nd 100 free

Josh Parker: 3rd 50 free; 3rd 100 breast

Vishnu Iyengar: 1st 100 breast; 4th 50 free

Kyle Borcik: 3rd 100 fly

Brandon Mason: 1st 100 free

Patrick Mason: 3rd 100 free

Alex Todd: 1st 100 back

Justin Dickinson: 2nd 100 breast

Individual Girls

Kristen Bohrer: 1st 200 free; 1st 100 fly

Grace Abshire: 2nd 200 free; 2nd 100 fly

Maria DeCotis: 3rd 200 free; 3rd 50 free

Hailey Harden: 1st 200 IM; 1st 100 back

Zuri Coleman: 2nd 200 IM; 3rd 100 breast

Alex Fedirchak: 3rd 200 IM; 100 back

Tanya Feilke: 1st 50 free; 2nd 100 free

Carly Fogg: 2nd 50 free; 1st 500 free

Lauren Jennings: 4th 50 free; 2nd 500 free

Danielle Grieco: 3rd 100 fly

Nataleah Michael: 3rd 100 free

Jessica Heimann: 1st 100 free; 1st 100 breast

Teresa Hill: 2nd 100 breast

At an Invitational Meet Dec. 8, 32 teams participated and the Wildcat Men finished third; Wildcat Women finished 11th ; combined in at fifth.

The Men’s 200 free relay finished second with state cut time of 1:38.76 (Steen, Alex Todd, Ben Starkey, Brandon Mason)

The Women’s 200 free relay finished seventh (Zuri Coleman, Megan Bidleman, Tanya Feilke, Jessica Heimann)

The Men’s 400 free relay took second and seventh. The second place finish had a state cut time of 3:43.96 (Steen, Starkey, Todd, Brandon Mason).

Seventh was (RJ Coleman, Toby King, Chad Lawrence, Patrick Loeffler)

Individual

Brandon Mason: 5th 100 free; 1st 50 free

Alex Todd: 7th 100 free; 8th 200 IM

Patrick Leoffler: 6th in 200 free; 8th 500 free

Jordan Steen: 3rd 100 back; 7th 50 free

Ben Starkey: 1st 200 IM 2:19.62; 1st 100 fly 57.98

Carly Fogg: 7th 200 free

Jessica Heimann: 7th 100 back

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