Grace Waller now has a care page. The website has the latest information on Grace and her treatments. The web address is www.carepages.com/carepages/GraceWaller. You will be asked to register for the website. Registraton is free. Grace had surgery on Thursday to place her port a cath. On Friday, she began her first chemo treatment. She should be discharged from the hospital today. Based on the information on the care page, Grace handled her first treatment extremely well.

DCST had an excellent meet in winning the 2008 Barb Wire Classic by a whopping 2,409 points. DCST scored 4,052 points compared to second place Belvidere which had 1,643. Listed below are some statistics on DCST’s performance at the meet. · DCST had 199 career best swims out of a total of 366 swim or 54% · Swimmers with three career best times on the day: Autumn Baker, Marc Dubrick, Alyssa Ferrigan, Erin Fidler, Bailey Flemming, Logan Johnson, Tori Johnson, Sophie Jones, Analisa Joyner, Kaila Joyner, Brianna Kramer, Ryan Lindsey,...

On Thursday, December 11, Grace Waller will have her port a cath placed (in the OR) at Rush Hospital in Chicago; and then on Friday morning, she will begin her chemo treatments. Grace will be receiving chemo treatments for somewhere between 29 – 40 weeks. After 10 weeks, the doctors will know if the tumor is responding or not. If it is responding well, then she will have 29 – 30 weeks of treatments. If the tumor is not responding well, then she could have up to 40 weeks of...

At the Badger Aquatic Club USS Meet in Madison, DCST once again had a small (33 swimmers) but talented group. DCST finished third overall behind Badger Aquatics (186 swimmers) and Verona Aquatic Club (95 swimmers). In fact, size wise DCST was only the 7th biggest team in the 16 team meet. Despite the impressive finish in the scoring column, DCST did not have one its better meets. As team, DCST had 64 personal best swims out of a total of 243 (26%). The coaching staff is looking for a big...

On Monday, DCST swimmer Grace Waller, was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, in her knee. Grace is a member of our National Team Practice group, and she is 16 years old. On Friday, after a day of tests and body scans, she received the best possible news under the circumstances. The doctors at Rush Hospital in Chicago were excited to tell Grace the cancer was localized to the knee, and it has not spread into any other part of her body. Furthermore, they were also encouraged by...

Moving to the sound: Waller’s pre-race music kept her concentration level high By JAMES NOKES - [email protected] Comments (No comments posted.) | Add Comments E-mail this story Print this story Comments Subscribe Share DeKALB – The synthesizers usher in a pulsating electronic beat. And Emily Waller’s earphones usher in a wall of sound that builds into a frenzied pace before suddenly stopping and building back up again. The pre-swim techno music gets the DeKalb senior ready for each heat. This year it was “Sandstormý by Darude that played over and...

Kenosha USS Meet Results With only 34 swimmers attending the Kenosha USS Meet, DCST represented itself extremely well. The team finished fourth overall which is outstanding considering that the three teams which finished ahead of us had 136, 74 and 59 swimmers in the meet respectively. DCST was only the 9 th largest team in the meet. For the entire weekend, DCST had 141 career best swims out of a total of 232 swims or a 61 percent success rate. Listed below are the DCST swimmers who had better than...

DeKalb co-op moves on at state swim meet Comments (1 comment(s)) | Add Comments E-mail this story Print this story Comments Subscribe Share ANDREW MITCHELL - Daily Chronicle EVANSTON – In the midst of stiff competition, each member of the DeKalb co-op swimming team managed to advance to Day 2 of the girls swimming State meet. On both the 200 and 400-yard freestyle relays, DeKalb placed in the top 12, placing as high as ninth place in the 400 with 3:33.07, a mere four hundreths of a second behind Waubonsie...

6 DCST Swimmers Qualify for IHSA State Championships There were 15 DCST swimmers who represented their high schools at the IHSA Sectional Championships last Saturday. The entire DeKalb / Sycamore Co-op sectional roster included DCST Swimmers. These swimmers were: Alex Dewitt, Tara Gidazewski, Casey Jepsen, Molly Olson, Kim Pearcy, Nicole Pearcy, Carly Primrose, Kate Taylor, Emily Waller and Grace Waller. As a team, they finished fourth at the St. Charles Sectional. DCST swimmer Emily Launer represented her high school, Rosary, at the Naperville Sectional. Rosary won their sectional meet. DCST...

One goal remains: Taylor, Jepsen looking for relay titles for DeKalb By James Nokes - Daily Chronicle Comments (No comments posted.) | Add Comments Kate Taylor, a senior at DeKalb High School, practices her freestyle swim at DeKalb High School. Taylor is a part of the 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams, which advanced to Saturday's IHSA State Swim Meet. Rob Winner - [email protected] E-mail this story Print this story Comments Subscribe Share DeKALB – Call them living legends. They’ve rewritten the school record books and they still have on...