DCST National Results (Day 3) On Day 3 at the YMCA National Championships, DCST had a decent day. Out of DCST’s 10 individual swims, 6 were lifetime best times. This brings the week’s total to 17 career best times out of 23 swims. Emily Launer’s 800 Freestyle was the highest finish on the day for DCST. She took home a 5 th place finish in this event and earned herself National All-American honors. DCST’s other All-Americans on the day were Grant Alef, Kei Ishimaru, Michael Gordon and Chad Thompson who...

DCST National Results (Day 2) Day 2 of the YMCA National Championships was a phenomenal day for DCST. Out of DCST’s 11 individual swims, 10 were lifetime best times; and both of DCST’s relay made finals with some huge time drops. The Men’s 200 Medley Relay team of Grant Alef, Michael Gordon, Kei Isihmaru and Chad Thompson dropped over 6 seconds in prelims and another second in finals to finish 5 th. The Girl’s 200 Medley Relay (Emily Launer, Valerie Jones, Katie Hallenbeck and Casey Jepsen) dropped over 4 seconds...

DCST National Results (Day 1) Day 1 of the National Championships only consisted of one event, the 1500 Freestyle; but this event was a great one for DCST. In an extremely exciting race, Emily Launer had an outstanding swim while earning a 2 nd place finish. She had a 16.5 second time drop from her previous best time which was also the previous DCST Team Record. On the men’s side, Grant Alef earned an impressive 8 th place finish. For their efforts, both Emily and Grant earned National All-American honors....

DCST Wins 10th Consecutive Conference Title The Kishwaukee YMCA / DeKalb County Swim Team (DCST) won their 10th consecutive NCISC “A” Conference title on Saturday, July 17 at Woodstock. DCST’s 1,990.5 points easily outscored second place Geneva by 673.5 points. Some of the highlights for the meet were as follows: · DCST won 6 out of 10 Age Group High Point Awards: 9 – 10 year old Boys, 11 – 12 year old Girls, 11 – 12 year old Boys, 13 – 14 year old Boys, 15 years old and...

DCST Earns 2nd Place at Hinsdale USS Meet On the weekend of Friday, July 9 – Sunday, July 11, DCST place second at the Hinsdale USS meet. Even with an impressive point total, DCST did not have an impressive showing with only a 36% improvement rate for career best times (128 best times out of a total of 354 individual swims). The following swimmers did have a great meet with better than a 50% improvement rate for career best times: Sarah Hein (9 for 9 – 100%) Sadie Burton (6...

DCST Downs Dolphins On Thursday, July 8, DCST defeated the visiting Woodstock Dolphins by a score of 441 to 252. This was the last dual meet of the summer season for DCST which went 4 – 2. As a team, DCST swam had a pretty good meet with 97 career best times out of a total of 225 swims for a 43% improvement rate. The following 35 swimmers did have a great meet with at least two career best times: Ty Ament, Marcus Bobo, Sadie Burton, Tyler Conklin, Tyler Crown,...

DCST Loses 2nd Straight On Thursday, July 1, DCST fell to 3 – 2 on the summer season with a 412 – 237 thumping at McHenry. Just like the meet two nights prior, DCST had a low swimmer turnout with only 38 swimmer entered in the meet compared to McHenry’s 79. To make matter worse, DCST only had 29 career best times out of a total of 97 individual swims for a 30% improvement rate. The following 10 swimmers did have a great meet with at least two career best...

Cary Barracudas take a Bite out of DCST On Tuesday, June 29, a heavily outmanned DCST team went to Cary and lost for the first time this summer season by a score of 391 – 302. Cary had 145 swimmers entered in the meet compared to DCST’s 40. DCST is now 3 – 1 on the summer season. As a team, DCST only had 32 career best times out of a total of 107 swims for a 30% improvement rate. The following 9 swimmers did have a great meet with...

DCST Takes Fifth at INDY USS Meet The Kishwaukee YMCA / DeKalb County Swim Team (DCST) finished fifth at the INDY USS Meet on June 25 – 27 in Indianapolis, IN. DCST only had 28 swimmers in the meet which made them the 11th largest team of the out of the 22 teams entered; thus a 5th place finish was not too bad. As a team, DCST had 111 lifetime best times out of 239 swims for an improvement rate of 46%. Listed below are swimmers who an improvement rate...

DCST Exterminates the River Rats On Tuesday, June 22, DCST went to 3 – 0 on the summer season with a 438 – 274 victory over the visiting Geneva River Rats. As a team, DCST swam a little better than they did a week prior at Rockford. For the meet, DCST had 92 career best times out of a total of 227 swims for a 41% improvement rate. The following 32 swimmers did have a great meet with at least two career best times: Ty Ament, Dillon Anderson, Adriana Aumann...