DCST has 87 Career Best Times at DCST Open The DCST Open proved to be a very beneficial meet for DCST. As a team, DCST had 87 career best times out of 155 swims for a 56% improvement rate. More importantly, DCST picked up 4 new District Times, 6 new Area Times, and 5 new National Times. DCST’s next meet will be the Northwest Jr. District and District Championships on March 4 and 5 at DCST. The line-ups for this meet will be posted by Tuesday.

DCST Finishes Regular Season with a 12 – 1 Record The Kishwaukee YMCA / DeKalb County Swim Team (DCST) finished their 2011 – 2012 winter regular season with a 12 – 1 dual meet record by defeating Rockford, Belvidere and Streator. As a team, DCST had 150 personal lifetime best times out of a total of 350 swims for a 43% improvement rate. DCST also had 21 individual swims which were first time District qualifying times, and 12 individual swims which were first time Area qualifying times. DCST also qualified...

Ishimaru, Schultz miss their cuts By KEVIN DRULEY - [email protected] Created: Saturday, February 25, 2012 5:30 a.m. CST Comments (0) Tweet Text Size: Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa DeKalb-Sycamore co-op swimer Ryan Schultz competes in the 100-yard breaststroke during the preliminaries of the boys state meet Friday at Evanston Township High School. (Sandy Bressner - [email protected]) Buy Daily Chronicle Photos » EVANSTON – Postseason veteran Kei Ishimaru gladly adheres to the regulations of the IHSA boys swimming state meet, but the DeKalb-Sycamore co-op senior also has some rules of his...

Ishimaru head strong this time around By ANTHONY ZILIS - [email protected] Created: Friday, February 24, 2012 5:30 a.m. CST Comments (0) Tweet Text Size: Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa The questions would flood into DeKalb-Sycamore co-op swimmer Kei Ishimaru’s head before races during his sophomore and junior years. Was he good enough? Did he train hard enough? “The past few years I’ve definitely had some problems trying to focus myself, trying to prepare myself mentally,” said Ishimaru, who qualified for this weekend’s state meet in 200-meter individual medley and the...

Pair of Barbs headed to state By RYAN WOOD - [email protected] Created: Sunday, February 19, 2012 12:29 a.m. CST Comments (0) Text Size: Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa DeKalb's Ryan Schultz competes in the 200-yard individual medley during Saturday's IHSA sectional at St. Charles North High School. (JEFF KRAGE – For the Daily Chronicle) Buy Daily Chronicle Photos » St. CHARLES – The darn clock wouldn't stop. Ryan Schultz slammed into the wall after the final length of his 100 breaststroke, and he knew it was close. He knew barely...

Schultz out from behind Gordon's shadow By JOHN SAHLY - [email protected] Created: Saturday, February 18, 2012 5:30 a.m. CST Comments (0) Text Size: Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa DeKALB – By almost all accounts, DeKalb swimmer Ryan Schultz had a memorable freshman season last year. He improved throughout the season, and DeKalb-Sycamore co-op coach Leah Eames said that by the end of the year, he approached the state cut mark in the 100-yard breaststroke. But swimming the same stroke as last year’s Daily Chronicle Swimmer of the Year, Michael Gordon,...

DCST has 553 Career Best Times at Winter Classic Meet At the DCST Winter Classic meet, DCST had 553 individual career best times out of a total of 976 individual swims for an improvement rate of 57%. This included DCST swimmers swimming a new event legally for the first time in their career 112 times. DCST won the meet by 3,512.5 points over second place Elgin. DCST also bolstered its chances for an outstanding YMCA Championship season with 30 swims which achieved a YMCA qualifying time standard for the first...

DCST Improves Dual Meet Record to 9 – 1 DCST improved to 9 – 1 on the season with wins over visiting Leaning Tower (Niles, IL) and Oak Park. As a team, DCST had a good meet with 179 career best times out of a total of 319 swims for a 56% improvement rate. Furthermore, DCST had 23 swims which were first time legal swims in a new event for the swimmer. DCST also had 18 swims which achieved the District Qualifying, 12 swims which achieved the Area Qualifying time,...

DCST’s Jets Cooled at Joliet USA Meet After two very impressive weekends, DCST was a little flat at the Joliet JETS USA Meet in Oswego. DCST had a rather low 33% improvement rate for the weekend with only 110 lifetime best times out of 335 total swims. In team scoring, DCST finished 3rd out of the 12 teams in the meet. The swimmers listed below lead DCST with more than 50% of their individual swims being best times. Erin Fidler (4 out of 4) – 100% Joanna Burnham (5 out...

DCST Wins Quadrangular Meet DCST easily defeated visiting Ottawa, Fox Valley and Elgin in quadrangular meet. DCST finished 1,200.5 points over second place Ottawa. DCST’s meet record has now improved to 7 – 1 on the season. As a team, DCST swam great with 212 career best times out of a total of 328 swims for a 65% improvement rate. Furthermore, DCST had 34 swims which were first time legal swims in breaststroke, butterfly or IM. DCST also had 20 swims which achieved the District Qualifying, 12 swims which achieved...