DCST Takes a Bite out of the Sharks DCST improved to 4 – 1 on the season by defeating the visiting Leaning Tower (Niles) Sharks by a score of 603 – 241. As a team, DCST swam extremely well with 185 career best times out of a total of 326 swims for a 57% improvement rate. DCST had an impressive 32 swims in which a swimmer swam a new event legally for the first time. DCST also had 21 swims which achieved the District Qualifying and 5 swim which achieved...

DCST Finishes 5th at David Wolf (Belvidere) Invite On Sunday, January 10th, the Kishwaukee YMCA / DeKalb County Swim Team finished 5th at the David Wolf Invite hosted by Belvidere. As a team, DCST was a little off by only achieving 32 career best times out of 112 individual swims for a 29% improvement rate. Congratulations to the following 8 swimmers who had at least two best individual times at the meet: David Beaty, Acelin Bruhl, Aidan Bruhl, Lilian Bruhl, Danny Cork, Adia Dean, Kaitlyn Goff and Domenic Schlueter. After...

DCST Takes 4th at Academy Invitational DCST finished 4th at the Academy Invitational. DCST had 69 career best times out of a total of 225 individual swims for a subpar improvement rate of 31%. The 8 swimmers listed below had a great meet with a better than 50% improvement rate in their individual swims. Serena Goelitz (4 out of 4) – 100% Domenic Schlueter (4 out of 4) – 100% Bella De La Cruz (3 out for 3) – 100% Riley Wiegartz (2 out of 2) – 100% Noah Johnson...

USA Swimming Recognizes DCST as a 2016 Bronze Medal Club USA Swimming has released the results of their 2016 Club Excellence Program, and DCST was named a Bronze Medal winner. The USA Swimming Club Excellence Program is a program that recognizes USA Swimming clubs for their commitment to excellence in performance. This program strives to meet the following objectives: Promote the development of strong, well-rounded age group and senior swimming programs that produce elite 18 & under athletes; Provide recognition and resources to motivate and assist member clubs to strive...

DCST Finishes Second at Barb Wire Classic DCST finished second at the Barb Wire Classic behind first place Sage (McHenry, IL) by 1,422.5 points. DCST scored 3,713 points compared to Sage’s 5,135.5 points. Over the weekend, DCST had 315 new lifetime career best times out of a total of 596 individual swims for an impressive improvement percentage of 53%. The following 69 swimmers had an excellent weekend by having an individual improvement percentage over 50%: Cody Carlson (6 out of 6) – 100% Mason Dukes (6 out of 6) –...

DCST Places 4th at Woodstock Splashtastic DCST placed 4th at the Woodstock USA Meet held on December 4 – 6 finishing behind Sage (McHenry), Woodstock and Elgin. For the meet, DCST swam okay with 139 career best swims out of a total of 302 swims for a 46% improvement percentage. Individually, the 20 swimmers listed below had a great meet with better than 50% improvement percentage for the meet. Alex Schlueter (6 out of 6) – 100% Matteo Graham (3 out of 3) – 100% Kevin Sullivan (2 out of...

Thirteen DCST Swimmers Compete at IHSA Sectional Meets (5 Qualify for State Meet) Thirteen DCST High School Girls swam for four different high school teams at the IHSA Sectional Meets at three different Sectional Meets. Five of these swimmers qualified for the IHSA State meet. Listed below are these swimmers. Byron – Serena Goelitz and Megan Hale represented Byron High School. As a team, Byron finished 4th at the Byron Sectional Meet. DeKalb / Sycamore Co-op– Nine girls on the DeKalb / Sycamore Sectional team are DCST swimmers (Camryn Anderson,...

DCST Wins Pilgrim Plunge DCST easily won the first ever Pilgrim Plunge by 5,162 points over second place Rockford. Over the weekend, DCST had 305 new lifetime career best times out of a total of 657 individual swims for an okay improvement percentage of 46%. DCST had 61 first time swims which were legal in a new event for the swimmer. DCST had 53 swims which were faster than the District Qualifying Time for the first time this season. DCST had 28 swims which were faster than the State Qualifying...

DCST Finishes 3rd at Early Bird Invite DCST finished in 3rd place at the Early Bird Invite hosted by the YMCA of Rock River Valley (Rockford). As a team, DCST was off with only 26 career best times out of a total of 75 individual swims for a 35% improvement rate. DCST had 4 swims which achieved the State Qualifying time for the first time. A total of 8 swimmers had a great meet with at least two career best times. These swimmers were: Nathan Braun, Savion Mack, Emily Raetzke,...

Piranhas take a Bite out of DCST On November 7, DCST lost its first meet of the season falling 709 – 188 to the Sage (Crystal Lake) Piranhas (MCY). DCST is now 3 – 1 on the season. As a team, DCST swam okay with 83 career best times out of a total of 180 swims for a 46% improvement rate. Twenty-five swimmers had a great meet with at least two career best times. These swimmers were: Jack Blaise, Lillian Bruhl, Cody Carlson, Danny Cork, Sophia Cork, Lou Dukes, Mason...