USA Swimming recognizes DCST as a 2010 Bronze Medal Club USA Swimming has released the results of their 2010 Club Excellence Program, and DCST was named a Bronze Medal winner. The USA Swimming Club Excellence Program is a program that recognizes USA Swimming clubs for their commitment to excellence in performance. Clubs were selected as Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal clubs according to the following parameters: Gold Level: The top 16 point-scoring clubs eligible for the Gold level. Silver Level: The remaining clubs ranked through #100 and/or not achieving Gold...

Sectional goes well for DeKalb swimmers By ERIC VAN DRIL - [email protected] Comments (No comments posted) | Add Comments E-mail this story Print this story Comments Share ST. CHARLES – Heading into Saturday afternoon’s boys swimming sectional, head coach Leah Eames and the DeKalb/Sycamore boys swimming team had one goal: Qualify as many people as possible for next weekend’s state meet. The team did that, sending Michael Gordon, Chad Thompson and Kei Ishimaru to next weekend's state meet in individual events. Thompson finished fifth in the 200 freestyle, while Ishimaru...

Barbs have sights set on state By JON STYF - [email protected] Comments (No comments posted) | Add Comments E-mail this story Print this story Comments Share DeKALB – A bad start, or a bad flip turn, is all it would take. That could make a season end today, abruptly. That's the danger of sectional season as the DeKalb/Sycamore boys swimming team heads to the St. Charles East Sectional this morning. The Barbs have three state qualifiers returning and a team of nine swimmers looking to make a mark in a...

DCST Competes at Missouri Grand Prix DCST sent 5 swimmers to the Missouri Grand Prix at the University of Missouri. This meet was full of some the best swimmers in the world. There were swimmers from numerous foreign countries including Canada, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico and Tunisia. There were also swimmers from numerous colleges including Arizona State, California, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Missouri State, SMU, Tennessee, Texas and USC. The most competitive event of the meet was probable the Men’s 200 meter Breaststroke event which included the...

DCST Wins Winter Classic The Kishwaukee YMCA / DeKalb County Swim Team won their Winter Classic Meet with 4,228.5 points which was 1,658 points better than second place Dundee. Just as impressive as their margin of victory was the 366 individual life time best times DCST achieved at the meet. Out of these 366 improved times, 42 were swimmers who achieved a new YMCA qualifying time for the first time this year (22 District Times and 20 Area Times). With so many great swims, the coaching staff had a difficult...

DCST Tops Oak Park DCST topped Oak Park by a score of 550 – 133. On the day, DCST had 138 lifetime best times out of a total of 286 swims for an improvement percentage of 48%. DCST is now 10 – 1 on the season. DCST had 48 swimmers who had at least two career best times on the day. These swimmers were: Ty Ament, Kendra Aumann Weyenberg, Tyler Berger, Jacob Bjork, Jeanette Brann, Sadie Burton, Alexi Cluff, Michael Cutsinger, Phillip Cutsinger, Brett DeConinck, Abby DeDina, Josh DeDina, Stephan...

DCST Has Impressive Performance at Joliet USS Meet The Kishwaukee YMCA / DeKalb County Swim Team (DCST) had an impressive performance at the Joliet USS Meet held in Oswego. For the meet, DCST 252 individual lifetime best performances out of a total of 445 swim for a 57% improvement rating. Note – This meet was not scored. The swimmers listed below had a better than 50% individual time improvement percentage: Shane Fergus (10 for 10 – 100%) Alex Miller (10 for 10 – 100%) Erin Fidler (8 for 8 –...

Sharks Devour DCST A severely outmanned DCST lost its first meet of the season to Leaning Tower. DCST only had 41 swimmers participate in the meet compared to Leaning Tower’s 133 swimmers. This huge swimmer advantage showed up in Leaning Tower’s 420.5 – 259.5 scoring advantage. On the positive side, the swimmers who did attend the meet performed extremely well. Eighteen of DCST’s 41 swimmers had at least two career best times out of three total swims. These swimmers were: Dillon Anderson, Austin Bockman, Sadie Burton, Josh DeDina, Mikaila DiCostanzo,...

DCST Senior Swimmers Make College Commitments DCST senior swimmers Chad Thompson and Casey Jepsen have committed to swim for Xavier and Truman State University respectively. Thompson will be joining former DCST swimmer, David Gordon, who graduated in 2009 at Xavier. Xavier is a member of the Atlantic 10 conference as is located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Truman State University is located in Kirksville, Missouri. The Truman women’s swim team has won 7 NCAA Division II National Titles since 2001. Below is an article from the DeKalb Chronicle about Thompson’s commitment to...

DCST Looks Good in Winning Quad Meet After looking good for their team pictures on Saturday, DCST’s swimmers also looked very good in the pool. As a team, DCST had 153 lifetime best individual swims out of 292 swims, a 52% improvement rate. These time improvements were also good for 11 new District and 1 new Area qualifying times. DCST had 37 swimmers who had a perfect day by achieving a lifetime best time in all of their individual events. These swimmers were: Adriana Aumann Weyenberg, Kendra Aumann Weyenberg, Paige...