DCST Wins 9th Straight Northwest District Championship DCST won its 9th straight Northwest District combined scoring championship by 2,151.5 points over second place Sage (McHenry). In the boys division, DCST won its 10th straight title by a score of 2,807 to 1,295.5 over Sage (McHenry). While in the girls division, DCST’s 640 point margin of victory over Sage (McHenry) was good for its 8th straight girls’ title. For the weekend, DCST had an excellent meet with 482 season best times out of 801 swims for an outstanding 60% improvement rate....

After Day 1, DCST is the Lead Dog at District Championship After the first day of competition at the Northwest District Championship Meet, DCST leads in all three scoring divisions (Girls, Boys and Combined). Furthermore, DCST leads in the team scoring in 8 of the 10 age groups. It was very good for DCST with 255 season best individual times out of 419 individual swims for an outstanding improvement rate of 61%. Team Scores after Day 1 (Top 5 of 10) Place Girls Points 1 DCST 1,402.0 2 Sage (McHenry)...

DCST Welcomes Back High School Boy Swimmers (Six Qualify for IHSA State Meet) DCST would like to welcome back many of our high school aged boy swimmers who have been swimming with their high school teams. The boys just finished a very successful high school season. Overall, DCST had 15 boys represent 4 different high schools at 3 different sectional meets. Six DCST swimmers qualified for the IHSA State Meet. Listed below are these swimmers with some highlights. Aurora (Marmion) - Jack Fergus represented Aurora (Marmion). As a team, Marmion...

DCST has 118 Career Best Times at DCST Open The DCST Open proved to be a very beneficial meet for DCST. As a team, DCST had 118 career best times out of 196 swims for an outstanding 60% improvement rate. More importantly, DCST picked up 3 new District Times, 12 new State Times, and 2 new National Times. Moreover, nine swimmers swam a new event legally for the first time in their careers. DCST’s next meet will be the Northwest Jr. District and District Championships on March 8 and 9...

DCST Finishes Regular Season with an 11 – 1 Record The Kishwaukee YMCA / DeKalb County Swim Team (DCST) finished their 2013 – 2014 winter regular season with an 11 – 1 dual meet record by defeating Rockford, Belvidere and Streator. As a team, DCST had 184 personal lifetime best times out of a total of 380 swims for a good improvement rate 0f 48%. DCST also had 21 individual swims which were first time District qualifying times, and 20 individual swims which were first time Area qualifying times. Furthermore,...

Hein makes history at state swim meet Published: Saturday, March 1, 2014 9:09 p.m. CST • Updated: Sunday, March 2, 2014 11:29 p.m. CST Caption (Rena Naltsas for the Daily Chronicle) By KEVIN DRULEY - [email protected] EVANSTON – Daniel Hein repeated the word "history" several times after steering the DeKalb-Sycamore co-op boys swimming and diving team to a banner showing at Saturday's IHSA state finals. That must mean he's fond of the subject at school, right? "No, I just think it's awesome to be the first to do something," Hein...

DeKalb-Sycamore's Hein finds redemption at state, qualifies for finals in three events Published: Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 11:28 p.m. CST • Updated: Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 11:49 p.m. CST Caption (Sandy Bressner - [email protected]) By DAILY CHRONICLE STAFF [email protected] DeKalb-Sycamore sophomore Daniel Hein found a little redemption in Friday’s boys swimming and diving state meet preliminaries. After failing to qualify for the finals as a freshman, Hein made it through in both of his individual events and one team relay at Evanston High School. Hein, who will be seeded fifth...

DeKalb-Sycamore co-op boys swimming relay team looking to continue momentum for team Published: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 9:51 p.m. CST • Updated: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 10:05 p.m. CST Caption (Monica Maschak – [email protected]) By ROSS JACOBSON- [email protected] The start of every meet has yielded the same result for the DeKalb-Sycamore boys co-op swim team. The 200-yard medley relay team of Daniel Hein, Holden Mackey, Dylan Powers and Ryan Schultz has always led off with a win. “I think starting off the meet with that relay, and the strength we...

DeKalb-Sycamore swim team records record-setting day at sectionals Published: Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 11:40 p.m. CST By ROSS JACOBSON - [email protected] DeKalb-Sycamore boys swim coach Leah Eames had trouble keeping track of everything that happened at the St. Charles North Sectional meet on Saturday. With several varsity records broken and four individuals and two relays moving on to the state meet, it was hard to blame her. The co-op had the most productive sectional meet in Eames' coaching career, taking third overall as a team behind St. Charles East and...

Co-op relay team saving some for state Published: Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 5:30 a.m. CST Caption By ROSS JACOBSON rjacobson @shawmedia.com DeKALB – Only a few weeks into this year’s swim season, Ryan Schultz and his medley relay teammates could sense that the relay could be something special. In one of their first invitationals, the DeKalb-Sycamore swimming co-op almost equaled its season-best time from last year when Schultz, Dylan Powers, Daniel Hein and Marc Dubrick – who now is running cross country and track at Missouri – qualified for the...