Swimming Continues Strong Run with Senior Meet Sweep of Bethel

The Valpo males’s and girls’s swimming groups made their Senior Meet on the Valparaiso Aquatic Center Friday night a profitable one, celebrating their giant senior class previous to incomes a twin meet sweep of Bethel. The Beacon males prevailed by a 209-47 closing, whereas the ladies earned a 194-68 victory. The victories proceed probably the most profitable season in current historical past for this system, because the women and men have every received 5 twin meets this yr.
 
Celebrating the Seniors

• Prior to hopping into the pool Friday, the Beacons acknowledged 16 seniors — six on the ladies’s aspect and 10 on the lads’s aspect.
• Roxanne Adams (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico) ranks among the many top-10 in program historical past in a pair of particular person occasions. She competed individually on Friday within the 100 breast and the 200 breast.
• Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) sits within the top-10 all-time at Valpo in 4 particular person occasions. Friday noticed her sweep the 100 fly (59.16) and 200 fly (2:07.89), whereas additionally contributing to the profitable 200 medley relay.
• Natalie Eaton (Tulsa, Okla./Jenks) seems 3 times on this system’s top-10 charts individually. She took high honors Friday in each the 100 breast (1:07.84) and 200 breast (2:26.50), whereas additionally becoming a member of the profitable 200 medley relay.
• Fiona Merritt (Tucson, Ariz./Canyon del Oro) competed individually on Friday within the 1000 free and the five hundred free.
• Emma Wise (Beaver Falls, Pa./Blackhawk) swam three particular person occasions Friday night — the 100 breast, 200 breast and 200 IM.
• Morgan Purser (Georgetown, Ind./North Harrison) was honored for her work as a senior supervisor Friday as nicely. Purser is serving in that position this season after beforehand swimming two seasons for the Beacons.
• Owen Cullinan (Cumming, Ga./South Forsyth) took to the water for particular person swims within the 200 free and the 50 free Friday.
• Ricky Helmboldt (Tucson, Ariz./Arizona Connections Academy) ranks among the many top-10 in program historical past in three particular person occasions. He swam the 1000 free, 200 breast and 200 IM Friday.
• Cole Kennedy (Bradenton, Fla./Braden River) took second place within the 1000 free Friday night, whereas additionally competing within the 500 free and the 200 IM.
• Eli Liebmann (Belleville, Ill./Belleville West) sits in this system’s all-time top-10 within the 200 breast. He took high honors in that occasion Friday (2:11.91), whereas additionally swimming the 100 breast.
• Timothy Mai (St. Johns, Fla./Creekside) ranks among the many program’s all-time greatest in 5 particular person occasions and was a part of the record-holding 400 medley relay squad. On Friday, Mai was a part of the profitable 200 medley relay workforce and likewise competed individually within the 200 IM.
• Matthew Mantz (Spokane, Wash./Mead) seems in Valpo’s top-10 charts in a pair of particular person occasions. He swam individually Friday within the 200 fly and the five hundred free.
• Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) holds the college document within the 200 fly and sits within the top-10 in 5 extra particular person occasions, whereas he was additionally a part of record-setting quartets within the 400 free relay, 800 free relay and 400 medley relay. Martin swept all three of his particular person occasions Friday, profitable the 200 free (1:43.02), 500 free (4:51.83) and the 200 IM (1:58.12), and was a part of the first-place 200 medley relay workforce.
• Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) holds 4 particular person faculty information — the 50 again, 100 IM, 200 IM and 400 IM — and ranks second in each the 100 again and 200 again, and was additionally a part of the record-setting 400 medley relay. Friday noticed Oostman declare first place within the 100 breast (59.22), second place within the 200 again and lead off the profitable 400 free relay.
• Luke Snider (Germantown, Tenn./Memphis University School) holds this system document within the 100 fly and ranks contained in the top-10 in six different particular person occasions, whereas additionally contributing to the record-setting 400 medley relay. Snider had a pair of second-place particular person showings Friday within the 100 breast and the 100 fly earlier than capping his closing house meet by swimming as a part of the profitable 400 free relay workforce.
• Sean Toolis (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln-Way East) competed individually Friday within the 50 free.

 
How It Happened

• While the seniors positively shone on Friday, the victories had been an all-around workforce effort, because the Beacons claimed 25 of the 28 occasions.
• The meet acquired off to a powerful begin, as Valpo’s 200 medley relay squad of Audrey Morgan (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook), Eaton, Benoit and Una Dizdarevic (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park) moved as much as sixth place in program historical past within the occasion with their profitable time of 1:47.59.
• Morgan’s opening 50 again leg of 27.14 moved her up right into a tie for third all-time at Valpo in that occasion, whereas Sophie Schoch (Medina, Ohio/Medina) posted a gap leg of 27.58 on one other of the Beacons’ relays to enhance upon her seventh-best time in program historical past.
• Benoit and Eaton had been joined by Morgan and Schoch in claiming two particular person occasions apiece. Morgan took high honors within the 200 free (1:53.81) and the five hundred free (5:08.51), whereas Schoch captured the 100 again (58.82) and the 200 again (2:08.16).
• Dizdarevic received the shortest race of the meet, claiming the 50 free with a time of 24.64, whereas Ally Unruh (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap) captured the longest race, touching the wall in 10:42.48 within the 1000 free.
• While the swims did not lead to occasion wins, two different Beacons posted top-10 particular person swims in program historical past Friday. Elaina Rezabek (Pingree Grove, Ill./Hampshire) lined the 1000 free in 10:48.83, a PR by practically 30 seconds and shifting her into ninth in program historical past within the occasion. Majo Suarez de la Fuente (Mexico City, Mexico/ITESM Preparatoria Tec Campus Santa Fe [Bethel]) moved as much as seventh place on Valpo’s 200 IM chart together with her time of two:13.29.
• The girls closed Friday’s motion because the quarter of Dizdarevic, Schoch, Bri Keese (Brighton, Colo./Brighton) and Morgan moved into eighth place in program historical past within the 400 free relay with their profitable time of three:36.09.
• The males acquired off to a profitable begin with their 200 medley relay, as Caleb Smesko (Green, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit) and Ben Mettler (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) acquired issues began earlier than Mai and Martin introduced the profitable relay house with a time of 1:34.43.
• While three of the lads’s seniors mixed for 5 particular person occasion wins, 4 freshmen mixed for six particular person victories as nicely. Smesko swept the again occasions, touching the wall in 52.38 within the 100 again and 1:57.08 within the 200 again.
• Gabriel Corkran (Avondale Estates, Ga./Druid Hills) showcased his versatility by claiming the 100 free (47.78) and the 100 fly (52.30).
• Mettler got here house first within the 50 free with a time of 21.70, whereas Logan Walliker (Washington, Ill./Washington) took high honors within the 200 fly with a time of 1:57.09.
• The closing house occasion of the season for the Beacons featured the quartet of Oostman, Snider, Corkran and Will Schenk (Tulsa, Okla./Holland Hall) profitable the 400 free relay in 3:12.88.

 
Next Up
Valpo heads to Crawfordsville, Ind. subsequent Saturday, Jan. 24, as the lads face Wabash and Illinois Wesleyan in a double twin, whereas the ladies tackle Illinois Wesleyan in a twin meet. The first occasion is slated to start out at midday CT.