DCST Swimmer Edith Reynolds Qualifies for Special Olympics Summer Games On Thursday, March 3, DCST swimmer Edith Reynolds competed at the Illinois Special Olympics District A swim meet in Naperville at Neuqua Valley High School. She finished first in both of her events, the 400 yard Freestyle and the 100 yard IM. In the 400 yard Freestyle, she was 1 minute and 5 seconds under her seed time, and she was 10 seconds under seed time in the 100 yard IM. Based on her performances, she has qualified in both...

DCST Swimmer Athena Ye Selected for USA Swimming Diversity Select Camp Each spring, USA Swimming invites 48 athletes from underrepresented populations to participate in a three-day camp program which includes pool training, motivational and education sessions and team-building activities. Selection is based on times swum at USA Swimming sanctioned events. This year one of these athletes will be DCST’s Athena Ye. The purpose of the camp is to instill a vision of success and inspire athletes from ethnically under-represented populations to become leaders in the sport of swimming. The goals...

DCST Swimmer Jacob Bjork Signs with Washington University (Missouri) DCST Senior, Jacob Bjork, has signed to swim with Washington University (Missouri). The Bears are a division III school who compete in the University Athletic Association Conference. Washington’s men finished 2nd this year in their Conference Championship meet. Jacob will be added to the long list of former DCST swimmers swimming at the collegiate level. He is the 56th DCST swimmer to swim at the collegiate level in the last 22 years. Currently, DCST has 18 alumni currently swimming in college...

DCST Finishes 2nd at Northwest District Championships DCST finished 2nd at the Northwest District in combined scoring, the girls division, and the boys division behind Sage (McHenry). For the weekend, DCST had an excellent meet with 357 season best times out of 542 swims for an outstanding 56% improvement rate. More importantly, DCST picked up 26 new State Times. In the Junior District events, 9 swims were under the District Qualifying Time for the first time in the swimmer’s career. Some highlights for the weekend were: DCST Won 2 of...

Ten DCST Swimmers Compete at IHSA Sectional Meets (5 Qualify for State Meet) Ten DCST High School Girls swam for two different high school teams at the IHSA Sectional Meets at two different Sectional Meets. Five of these swimmers qualified for the IHSA State meet. DeKalb / Sycamore Co-op– All nine boys on the DeKalb / Sycamore Sectional team are DCST swimmers (Jacob Bjork, Austin Bockman, Nathan Braun, Daniel Hein, Riley Lohse, Dylan Rasmussen, Bradley Ruetten, Tyler Schultz and Tyler Theis). As a team, they finished 3rd at the St....

DCST has 104 Career Best Times at DCST Open DCST finished off a very productive weekend by achieving 104 career best times at the DCST Open. DCST had a total of 174 swims, so the team’s improvement rate was an astonishing 60%. DCST had 10 swims in which a swimmer swam a new event legally for the first time. DCST also had 4 swims which achieved the District Qualifying, 12 swims which achieved the State Qualifying time, and 6 swims which achieved an Age Group Qualifying time for the first...

DCST Finishes Winter Season at 10 - 2 By winning its last meet of the season, DCST will finish the 2015 – 2016 Winter Season with a 10 – 2 dual meet record. On Saturday, February 27, DCST scored 889 points to outscore Rock River – Rockford (391 points), Belvidere (224 points) and Streator (53 points). As a team, DCST continued to swim well at the end of the season with 162 career best times out of a total of 346 swims for a 47% improvement rate. DCST had 13...

DCST Takes Tri-Meet DCST improved to 7 – 2 on the season beating both Fox Valley (Plano, IL) and Hastings Lake (Lindenhurst, IL) in a tri-meet on Saturday, February 20. As a team, DCST swam okay with 138 career best times out of a total of 296 swims for a 47% improvement rate. DCST had 17 swims in which a swimmer swam a new event legally for the first time. DCST also had 14 swims which achieved the District Qualifying and 7 swim which achieved the State Qualifying time for...

DCST Splits at Sage Tri-Meet DCST is now 5 – 2 on the season after finishing behind Sage and ahead of Joliet at a tri meet hosted by Sage on February 6. As a team, DCST swam okay with 81 career best times out of a total of 188 swims for an 43% improvement rate. DCST had 7 swims in which a swimmer swam a new event legally for the first time. DCST also had 2 swims which achieved the District Qualifying and 4 swim which achieved the State Qualifying...

DCST has 418 Career Best Times at Winter Classic Meet At the DCST Winter Classic meet, DCST had 418 individual career best times out of a total of 831 individual swims for a good improvement rate of 50%. This included DCST swimmers swimming a new event legally for the first time in their career 44 times. DCST won the meet by 2,069 points over second place Elgin. DCST also bolstered its chances for an outstanding YMCA Championship season with 55 swims which achieved a YMCA qualifying time standard for the...