Ready for an encore By JOHN SAHLY - [email protected] Comments (No comments posted) | Add Comments DeKalb-Sycamore co-op swimmer Michael Gordon swims the breaststroke during practice Thursday at DeKalb High School. In addition to swimming in the 200-yard freestyle and 200 medley relays, Gordon will be competing in the 200 IM today in the state meet at New Trier High School in Winnetka. (Kyle Bursaw – [email protected]) Buy Daily Chronicle Photos » DeKALB – When Sam Seneczko touched the wall in Saturday’s St. Charles North Sectional at the end of...

Boys swimming | State preview: Kaneland's Grant Alef going solo BOYS SWIMMING February 24, 2011|By Mike Helfgot | Special to the Tribune Kaneland High School does not have a swimming pool. "There's a pond," Grant Alef deadpanned, referencing an oft-quoted "Caddyshack" line. "There really is. It's not good, though. Too cold." No pool means no team. Fortunately for Alef, it doesn't mean no season. A top club swimmer and multiple YMCA national champion who has been in pools — and occasionally ponds — year-round since he was 5 years old,...

DCST Races with Olympians at Missouri Grand Prix Three DCST swimmers got to experience racing some of the elite swimmers in the world at the Missouri Grand Prix. The meet include the following swimmers: Olympic gold medalists Rebecca Soni (Plainsboro, N.J.), Dara Torres (Parkland, Fla.) and Ricky Berens (Charlotte, N.C.), along with other Olympians Matt Grevers (Lake Forest, Ill.), Kara Lynn Joyce (Ann Arbor, Mich,), Amanda Weir (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Mark Gangloff (Akron, Ohio), Mike Alexandrov (Champaign, Ill.), Kathleen Hersey (Atlanta, Ga.) and Chloe Sutton (Mission Viejo, Calif.). National Teamers Nick...

Ishimaru steps up at sectional By TAMMY SWANSON - [email protected] Comments (1 comments) The DeKalb-Sycamore co-op boys swimming team made its presence known at the St. Charles North Sectional on Saturday, finishing fourth with 165 points. In the 200-yard medley relay, the team of Michael Gordon, Kei Ishimaru, Josh Page and Sam Seneczko came in second place and qualified for next weekend's state meet with a time of 1:37.85. In the 200 individual medley, Michael Gordon came in second place and qualified for state with a 1:56.73. Ishimaru took third...

Marmion just misses sectional title When looked at from any angle, there really wasn't anything wrong with Marmion's performance at Saturday's St. Charles East boys swimming sectional. Despite not having any diving entries, the Cadets only finished second by 1 point to Wheaton Warrenville South. Marmion takes a solid contingent of 3 relays and 6 individual entries to next week's state meet at Evanston. But the Cadets could also point to a string of cases where a terrific time drop brought a swimmer just to the brink of qualification and...

Throne goes to the winner By JOHN SAHLY - [email protected] Comments (No comments posted) Brothers Josh (front) and Cory Page swim laps at the DeKalb High School pool on Wednesday. The two members of the DeKalb-Sycamore co-op boys swimming team will compete for a title today at the St. Charles North Sectional, and they also are scheduled to face off in the 50-yard freestyle. (Kyle Bursaw – [email protected]) Buy Daily Chronicle Photos » For more high school sports coverage, visit DC Preps DeKALB – Josh Page has been sick for...

DeDina, Haseman qualify for state With his purple cap bobbing up and down in the water, it wasn’t too hard to miss Hampshire’s lone swimmer in Saturday’s IHSA St. Charles North sectional as he competed in the 100-yard breaststroke. It was even harder to miss Josh DeDina when he stepped onto the Lane 4 starting block after that race, a representation of his fourth-place finish in the heats that qualify swimmers for next week’s state meet at New Trier. DeDina’s time in the race was 1:01.28, good enough to send...

Sectional effort thrills St. Charles North When teams get to the state swim meet, where seating is limited, they all try to stake out their favored places on the pool-deck bleachers. St. Charles North, for example, likes to stand on the right side of the deck, when facing the scoreboard. And the North Stars are going to need to make sure they have a little extra space on those bleachers next weekend to accommodate the massive number of qualifiers the team garnered at Saturday’s St. Charles North sectional. The North...

DCST Swims to Winter Classic Title The Kishwaukee YMCA / DeKalb County Swim Team (DCST) won their Winter Classic meet by 2,912.5 points over second place Elgin. More impressively was the fact that DCST had 422 career best individual swims out of a total of 785 individual swims for a 54% improvement rate. Moreover, DCST swimmers swam a new event legally for the first time in their career 87 times over the weekend. However, the most important statistic was how much DCST’s results bolstered its chances for an outstanding YMCA...

Oak Park Tops DCST On Saturday, February 5, Oak Park (TOPS) defeated DCST by a score of 255 - 191. The score was fairly close considering TOPS had 181 swimmers entered in the meet compared to DCST’s 38. The loss was DCST’s first loss of the season, and our record is now 5 – 1 in dual meets. DCST swam alright with 38 career best times out of a total of 99 swims for a 38% improvement rate. DCST also had 2 swims which achieved the District Qualifying time and...