DCST Rocks Woodstock USA Meet DCST won the Woodstock USA Meet held on December 6 – 8 by 111 points over second place Sage (McHenry). For the meet, DCST had a very impressive 146 individual career best swims out of a total of 261 swims for a 56% improvement percentage. Individually, the 31 swimmers listed below had a great meet with better than 50% improvement percentage for the meet. Kylee Heck (6 for 6) – 100% Aleida Wilkins (6 for 6) – 100% Jared VanderSchee (5 for 5) – 100%...

Sixteen DCST Swimmers Compete at IHSA Sectional Meets (7 Qualify for State Meet) Sixteen DCST High School Girls swam for nine different high school teams last weekend at the IHSA Sectional Meets at three different Sectional Meets. Seven of these swimmers qualified for the IHSA State meet. Listed below are these swimmers. Burlington Central – Ashley Stark represented Burlington Central High School. Ashley swam with DCST as their high school does not official have a high school team; therefore, the team was not allowed to score points at the St....

DeKalb/Sycamore sophomores team up for trip to state finals Published: Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 5:30 a.m. CST Caption (Monica Maschak – [email protected]) By ROSS JACOBSON rjacobson @shawmedia.com DeKALB – The few seconds between touching the wall and seeing the time felt like an eternity to Bailey Flemming. The DeKalb/Sycamore co-op sophomore had finished the last leg of the 200-yard medley relay in third place Saturday in the St. Charles East Sectional, just missing out on the last state qualifying spot given to the top two finishers. But if the relay’s...

DCST Takes 4th at Pleasant Prairie USA Meet DCST finished in 4th place finish at the Pleasant Prairie USA Meet. DCST finished behind Southwest Aquatics (Muskego, WI), Fox Valley (Naperville, IL) and the host team, Pleasant Prairie. For the meet, DCST had a very impressive 262 individual career best swims out of a total of 476 swims for a 55% improvement percentage. Individually, the 31 swimmers listed below had a great meet with better than 50% improvement percentage for the meet. Noah Dean (10 for 10) – 100% Bradley Ruetten...

Freshman swimmer fills in for sister at sectionals Published: Friday, Nov. 15, 2013 5:30 a.m. CST Caption (Monica Maschak – [email protected]) By ROSS JACOBSON – rjacobson @shawmedia.com DeKALB – For the last three years Colette LeBlanc had been hearing stories about the DeKalb/Sycamore co-op swim team. Her older sister, Sam, now a senior at DeKalb, would come home and talk about the team, training and out-of-practice bonding that happens with her fellow swimmers. "We spend so much time together that it's impossible that we wouldn't become really close friends," Sam...

DCST Swimmer Ryan Schultz Signs with Wright State University DCST swimmer, Ryan Schultz, has made his college commitment by signing with Wright State University. The Raiders are a division I school who compete in the Horizon League. Last year, Wright State finished 5th at their conference championships. Jack Fergus also signed with Wright State University, this past weekend. Ryan will be added to the long list of former DCST swimmers swimming at the collegiate level. Currently, DCST has 18 alumni swimming in college or will be swimming in college in...

DCST Swimmer Jack Fergus Signs with Wright State University DCST swimmer, Jack Fergus, has made his college commitment by signing with Wright State University. The Raiders are a division I school who compete in the Horizon League. Last year, Wright State finished 5th at their conference championships. Jack will be added to the long list of former DCST swimmers swimming at the collegiate level. Currently, DCST has 17 alumni swimming in college or will be swimming in college in the upcoming year. These swimmers are: Alef, Grant (Jr) Saint Louis...

DCST Gets Split at Rockford Triangular Meet At a triangular meet at the Rock River Valley (Rockford) YMCA, DCST had to settle for a split. DCST lost to the host team in a close meet, but easily finished ahead of Freeport. Rock River had 581 points to DCST’s 556 and Freeport’s 94 points. DCST is now 4 – 1 on the season. As a team, DCST swam okay with 109 career best times out of a total of 193 swims for a 56% improvement rate. Moreover, 23 of these swims...

DCST Swimmer Caitlynn Moon Signs with Texas A&M University DCST swimmer, Caitlynn Moon, has made her college commitment by signing with Texas A&M University. The Aggies are a division I school who compete in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Last year, Texas A&M finished second at the SEC Conference Championship, and they placed 4th at the NCAA Championship Meet. Caitlynn will add to the long list of former DCST swimmers swimming at the collegiate level. Currently, DCST has 16 alumni swimming in college or will be swimming in college this fall....

DCST Wins Early Bird Invite DCST won the Early Bird Invite hosted by the YMCA of Rock River Valley (Rockford). DCST finished ahead of second place Sage (McHenry County) by 151 points (407 – 256). As a team, DCST swam just okay with 39 career best times out of a total of 95 swims for a 41% improvement rate. DCST had 1 swim which achieved the District Qualifying and 5 swims which achieved the Area Qualifying time for the first time. A total of 12 swimmers had a great meet...