DCST Finishes Regular Season with a 9 – 3 Record The Kishwaukee YMCA / DeKalb County Swim Team (DCST) finished their 2012 – 2013 winter regular season with a 9 – 3 dual meet record by defeating Rockford, Belvidere and Streator. As a team, DCST had 167 personal lifetime best times out of a total of 325 swims for a very good 51% improvement rate. DCST also had 11 individual swims which were first time District qualifying times, and 11 individual swims which were first time Area qualifying times. Furthermore,...

DeKalb-Sycamore teammates to square off at state swim meet By ANTHONY ZILIS - [email protected] Created: Friday, February 22, 2013 5:30 a.m. CST Comments (0) Tweet Text Size: Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa DeKalb-Sycamore co-op swimmer Ryan Schultz competes in the 100 breaststroke during the St. Charles East Sectional on Saturday in St. Charles. Schultz finished third to qualify for this weekend’s state finals at New Trier in Winnetka. (Rob Winner – [email protected]) DeKalb-Sycamore swimmers Jacob Bjork and Ryan Schultz were playfully competitive all season, grinding through workouts next to each...

Hein wins sectional title, DeKalb relay advances to state By ANTHONY ZILIS - [email protected] Created: Sunday, February 17, 2013 5:30 a.m. CST Updated: Sunday, February 17, 2013 11:48 a.m. CST Comments (0) Tweet Text Size: Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Rob Winner ‚Äì [email protected] DeKalb-Sycamore co-op swimmer Ryan Schultz competes in the 100 breaststroke during the St. Charles East Sectional on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Schultz finished third with a time of 1:. ( ()) SAINT CHARLES – Freshman Daniel Hein didn't think there was any way he could top...

DeKalb-Sycamore co-op hopes to take large contingent to state By ROSS JACOBSON - [email protected] Created: Saturday, February 16, 2013 5:30 a.m. CST Comments (0) Tweet Text Size: Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa DeKalb-Sycamore co-op swimmer Marc Dubrick watches for the clock to come around during practice Feb. 7. Dubrick and his teammates will compete in the St. Charles East Sectional today (Kyle Bursaw – [email protected]) DeKalb-Sycamore co-op boys swimming coach Leah Eames knew at the beginning of the season she was going to have fun making the lineup each week....

DCST has 596 Career Best Times at Winter Classic Meet At the DCST Winter Classic meet, DCST had 596 individual career best times out of a total of 1018 individual swims for an improvement rate of 59%. This included DCST swimmers swimming a new event legally for the first time in their career 124 times. DCST won the meet by 4,024.5 points over second place Elgin. DCST also bolstered its chances for an outstanding YMCA Championship season with 44 swims which achieved a YMCA qualifying time standard for the first...

DCST Drops Two at Oak Park DCST fell to 6 – 3 on the season in dual meets when it lost to both Oak Park and Leaning Tower (Niles, IL). As a team, DCST swam a little better than the previous weekend, but was still a little off. DCST had 63 career best times out of a total of 141 swims for a 45% improvement rate. Five of these swims were a new event legally swum by a DCST swimmer for the first time in their career. Twenty five swimmers...

DCST struggled a little at the Joliet USA Meet. With only 139 career best times out of a total of 373 individual swims, DCST had a dismal 37% improvement rate. This was by far DCST’s lowest rate of the season. On the positive side, DCST had 16 swimmers who had a better than 50% improvement rate in their individual swims. Note – This meet was not scored. Rachel Maxwell (4 out of 4) – 100% Ethan Heinrich (2 out of 2) – 100% Ana Flavia Michelini (7 out of 8)...

Hello everyone, I was very excited for this meet more than you all know. It is very nostalgic because I too used to swim at this meet, and it was one of my favorites! We did an amazing job, getting 3 of the high point awards AND we placed SECOND overall. Some notable achievements… Big Dogs: Grayson Sullivan and Norah Shearer! High Point Awards: We decided to give our TEAM high point plaques to our highest point swimmer in each age group that won… 8&under girls: Stella Anderson 9/10 girls:...

DCST Wins Quad Meet DCST moved to 6 – 1 on the dual meet season with wins over Ottawa, Fox Valley (Plano) and Hastings Lake (Antioch). As a team, DCST an excellent meet with 228 career best times out of a total of 357 swims for a 64% improvement rate. Moreover, 29 of these swims were a new event legally swum by a DCST swimmer for the first time in their career. DCST also had 21 swims which achieved the District Qualifying, and 9 swims which achieved the Area Qualifying...

DCST Takes 4th at Academy Invitational DCST finished 4th at the Academy Invitational with only 43 swimmers. DCST had 170 career best times out of a total of 333 individual swims for a solid 51% improvement rate. The 22 swimmers listed below had a better than 50% improvement rate in their individual swims. Joanna Burnham (6 out of 6) – 100% Grace Johnson (6 out of 6) – 100% Joe Luetkehans (5 out of 5) – 100% Abby Oberg (4 out of 4) – 100% Andrew Tatum (4 out of...