Making Waves

Isaak Aune and Cole Rass.

DCY Featured Swimmers: Our featured swimmers for this week are Isaak Aune and Cole Rass from Southern Door Elementary School. Both swimmers have qualified for the State Championships this weekend.

Aune will swim four individual events – the maximum events allowed in the meet – and one relay. Rass qualified for the two relays for the eight-under swimmers. Rass had just missed his 25-yard freestyle event by less than 1/10th of a second, proving what exacting goals these young athletes are working so intensely to accomplish.

Our young swimmers are the strength of the team this year, with several swimmers in the top four in multiple events at State.

Notes from Coach Mike McHugh: We had one of the best meets of the year at sectionals this past weekend at the YMCA at Pabst Farms, qualifying several events for the upcoming State meet. DCY won the sectional easily, tallying more than 70 best times.

DCY celebrated the season with the annual Sectional dinner on Saturday night while in Oconomowoc. More than 140 swimmers and their families were in attendance. The support by the parents and extended family is certainly a positive factor in our incredibly successful season.

DCY has 46 swimmers total who have officially qualified for the State meet, the most in team history. We also have a record-breaking 21 relays that have qualified, as well. With the 46 swimmers, DCY has a total of 151 individual events that qualified at the State meet, averaging three events per swimmer.

All of these statistics are astounding, considering we are small team competing at the state level. With more than 20 teams attending this meet, DCY will have the third most individual events in the meet. With this presence, the DCY swim team has the opportunity to place higher as a team than any year in our team’s history.

Swim Term: lap counter – large, plastic cards printed with numbers. In distance freestyle events (500 yards or longer) these cards are held underwater at the end opposite the starting blocks to help the swimmer keep track of where they are in the race. The counters show odd numbers, with the last panel covered by a bright orange square. When the swimmer is making the final turn into the last lap of the race, the person holding their counter will display the bright orange card, instead of a number.

Upcoming Meets

• 2015 Wisconsin YMCA State Meet, Brown Deer, March 20-22

• 2015 YMCA Short Course National Championship, Greensboro, NC, March 30-April 3

For more information visit the DCY website, teamunify.com/Home.jsp?team=widcy.