DCST Finishes 2nd at David Wolf Invite DCST started the New Year with a sluggish performance at the David Wolf Invite. On the day, DCST only had 63 lifetime best times out of 167 individual swims (38% improvement). DCST swimmers achieved 3 District and 1 Area qualifying times for the first time this season. While the times were a little disappointing, DCST did do extremely well in the standings. DCST finished second only to the host Belvidere team, who had 92 swimmers in the meet compared to DCST’s 63. Another...

No break for Knight TAMMY SWANSON - [email protected] Kaneland junior Grant Alef competes in the 100-yard backstroke and the 500 freestyle. Last year at the state meet, Alef took 14th place in the 100 backstroke with a time of 52.57. He came in 15th place in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:39.36. (Rob Winner – [email protected]) Grant Alef will spend most of his Christmas break in a pool at the Kishwaukee YMCA in DeKalb. Why would this week be any different? This Kaneland junior is a member of...

Listed below is an article from the DeKalb Chronicle about DCST swimmer Ashley Kim's family looking for a wheelchair accessible home. Family looks for accessible property for girl By DANA HERRA [email protected] Comments (3 comments) | Add Comments E-mail this story Print this story Comments Share GENOA – If all goes well, Ashley Kim should be ready to come home from the hospital by February. The problem is, home for the Genoa-Kingston seventh-grader is a second-floor apartment completely inaccessible to her wheelchair. Ashley, 12, suffered a spinal cord injury in...

DCST Dominates Barb Wire Classic DCST had a dominating performance in winning the Barb Wire Classic by 1,993.5 points over second place Ottawa. DCST scored 3,612 points compared to Ottawa’s 1,618.5. On the day, DCST had 158 new lifetime career best times for an improvement percentage of 45%. 101 out of our 121 swimmers had at least one lifetime best time. The following 22 swimmers had a perfect day by earning all individual best times on the day: Tyler Berger, Jacob Bjork, Michael Carlson, Benjamin Changnon, Melissa Cherry, Amanda Cook,...

DCST Swimmers Excel during Girls High School Season DCST would like to welcome back many of our high school aged girl swimmers who will be swimming in their first meet of the season for DCST in the Barb Wire Classic this Saturday. These girls just finished a very successful girl’s high school season. On our website under the tab “DCST News,” there are numerous links to newspaper articles about their seasons. Listed below are some of the highlights of the sectional and state swimmers from DCST. DeKalb / Sycamore Co-op...

DCST team towels can be ordered by emailing Kelly Thompson at [email protected] or call her at 815-758-3379 to place an order. The towels are either black or red and will include a name which will be embroidered on it. The towels cost only $27 each and are very large in size. These would make a great Christmas gift. A portion of the proceeds will go toward scholarships for our national swimmers to represent DCST in future national meets. If you have questions, please contact Kelly.

DCST Wins Woodstock Splashtastic DCST won the Woodstock Splashtastic with 5,143.5 points which easily outscored the second place host Woodstock Dolphins by 1,682.5 points. DCST also finished first in both the girls and boys divisions. In individual scoring, DCST had 16 swimmers place in the top 3 in their respective age groups. These swimmers were: Athena Ye (1st 8 & Under Girls), Abby Pardridge (2nd 8 & Under Girls), Nolan Fergus (1st 8 & Under Boys), Tyler Crown (2nd 8 & Under Boys), Cole Moon (2nd 9 – 10 Boys),...

If you click on the link below, it will take you to the Xavier Swimming Website. If you then click on the video below "All Access" on the right hand side of the page, it will run a video of DCST Alumni and Coach David Gordon. http://www.goxavier.com/sports/c-swim/xavi-c-swim-body.html

A cut above the rest By JON STYF - [email protected] Comments (No comments posted) Sycamore senior Casey Jepsen, the 2009 Daily Chronicle Girls Swimmer of the Year, did not qualify for the finals in the 100- or 200-meter freestyle events at the state meet last weekend but she is pleased with her times. “ I never in a million years thought I would go that fast,” she said. (Beck Diefenbach – [email protected]) E-mail this story Print this story Comments Share Casey Jepsen isn't used to having time off. So this...

DCST Takes 2nd at Kenosha USS Meet DCST had a very impressive second place finish at Kenosha. DCST finished only behind the host Kenosha team. Not too bad when you consider Kenosha had 36 more swimmers than DCST in the meet. Overall, DCST had the seventh highest total of swimmers entered in the meet out of the 22 teams who participated. In the boy’s division, DCST finished first; and in the girl’s division DCST finished fifth. For the meet, DCST had a very impressive 225 individual career best swims or...