Moon and Hein Named National All-Americans for 3rd Straight Day National Champs

Moon and Hein Named National All-Americans for 3^rd Straight Day at National Championships

        Caitlynn Moon and Daniel Hein remained perfect by achieving National All-American status in their third straight individual event of the meet on Day 3 of the YMCA National Championships in Greensboro, NC.  Caitlynn earned this honor by lowering her personal best time and previous team record by 2.9 seconds.  She placed 4^th in this event.  Daniel placed 7^th in the 200 yard Backstroke.  His time was 2 seconds faster than his previous best time, and he also set a new team record.

        Hein set two more team records on the day in relay events.  He started the day by joined Ryan Schultz, Dylan Powers and Jack Fergus to break the old record by 1 second in the 200 yard Medley Relay.  His morning ended with Powers, Fergus and Jacob Bjork lowering the 800 Freestyle Relay record by 1.6 seconds.  Daniel’s 200 yard Freestyle time leading off the relay was a new team record.  Thus, he set 4 new team records on the day.  The women’s relay team of Athena Ye, Jensen Keck, Sarah Fergus and Ashley Stark broke DCST’s previous team record in the 200 yard Medley by an impressive 2.5 seconds.

        Other highlights on the day included Jack Fergus going 3 seconds under his lifetime best time in the 200 yard Backstroke.  DCST was equally impressive in the Women’s 200 Backstroke with Kylie Olson (1 second time drop), Sarah Hein (0.5 second time drop) and Sarah Fergus (0.2 second time drop) going below their previous best times.  In the 100 yard Breaststroke, Ryan Schultz (0.6 seconds time drop) and Jensen Keck (0.02 seconds time drop) also excelled.  Jensen’s time was a new DCST Team Record.

        With one day left in the meet, DCST currently has achieved 26 personal best times out of 40 total swims for a 65% improvement rate.  The team has also set 22 new team records.

Day 3 (April 3) – DCST National Results

Women’s 200 yard Medley Relay

        Athena Ye, Jensen Keck, Sarah Fergus, Ashley Stark – 1:48.30 (T-30^th) – New DCST Team Record

Men’s 200 yard Medley Relay

        Daniel Hein, Ryan Schultz, Dylan Powers, Jack Fergus – 1:35.05 (18^th) – New DCST Team Record

Women’s 500 yard Freestyle

        Caitlynn Moon
                Prelims – 4:49.97 (2^nd)
                Finals – 4:47.49 (4^th) – National All-American, New DCST Team Record

Women’s 100 yard Breaststroke

        Jensen Keck - DQ

Men’s 100 yard Breaststroke

        Ryan Schultz – 58.57 (41^st)
        Jacob Bjork – 59.59 (63^rd)

Women’s 200 yard Backstroke

        Athena Ye – 2:07.60 (T-98^th)
        Kylie Olson – 2:07.61 (100^th)
        Sarah Hein – 2:07.67 (101^st)
        Sarah Fergus – 2:08.42 (114^th)

Men’s 200 yard Backstroke

        Daniel Hein
                Prelims – 1:49.37^th (8^th)
                Finals – 1:48.78 (7^th) – National All-American, New DCST Team Record
        Jack Fergus
                Prelims – 1:51.17 (18^th)
                Finals – 1:49.67 (17^th)

Men’s 800 yard Freestyle Relay

        Daniel Hein, Dylan Powers, Jacob, Bjork, Jack Fergus – 7:00.32 (27^th) - New DCST Team Record; Daniel’s time of 1:43.33 to lead off the relay was new DCST team record.

Time Trials

100 yard Breaststroke
        Jensen Keck – 1:05.85 – New DCST Team Record