The University of Minnesota Gophers went to corn country to swim against the Iowa Hawkeyes. The Gopher Men lead their series 44-39 but have dominated lately, putting their streak of nine straight wins in a row over Iowa on the line. The Women Gophers dominated Iowa last year and looked to repeat that outcome.
The Gopher Women came out strong going 1-3-4 in the 400Medley Relay. Abbey Staats swam the Anchor on the “C” Relay swimming a blistering 23.69 50FR.
In the 1000 Free, The Gopher Women went 1-2-3-5 and the Men went 1-2-4-5.
The 200 Free had Winonan Matt Papenfuss splashing for the first time of the evening in 1:43.44 scoring for the Gophers.
After some mixed results in the 100 Back, the 100 Breast saw the Gopher Women swim 1-2-3 and the Gopher Men 1-3-4-5.
The 200 Fly was a continuation with the Gopher Women swimming 1-2-3-5 and the Men 1-2-4.
The 50 Free saw the Gopher Women produce a 2-3-4-5 finish with 5th being Winona Abbey Staats in a time of 24.39. The Gopher Men went 1-2.
The Gopher Women dominated the 1 Meter Diving, going 1-2 and winning by 50+ points.
The 100 Free saw Abbey Staats bring home a 3rd place finish in 52.96 bracketed by her teammates taking 2-3-4-5. The Men’s 100 Free had Matt Papenfuss swim 7th in a time of 47.50.
The 500 Free had the Gopher Women start to swim Exhibition. Real time had them bring home 1-2-3 but they only got points for first. The Gopher men brought home 1-2-3-4.
Same for the 100 Fly the Gopher Women would have touched in 1-2-3.
The Gopher Women ran away with the 3 Meter Diving going 1-2 and outscoring the Iowa divers by 180 and 90 points respectively.
The 400 Fr Relay saw Abbey Staats swimming with the “A” Gopher Relay in the second spot. She swam a 52.42 leg and helped bring home a 2nd place. The Gopher Men’s event had Matt Papenfuss swimming with the Gopher “A” Relay the the 3rd position. He touched his leg in at 46.59 and they finished 3rd behind Iowa and the Gopher “B” Relay.
Finals Scores
1. University of Minnesota, Twin 176 2. University of Iowa, 118
1. University of Minnesota, Twin 184 2. University of Iowa, 114
Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
The coming Weekend for Winona Swimmers
The Winona SHS Winhawks are in the throws of their end-of-season taper, working toward making their statement at the Section 1AA Swimming Championships.
In the mean time, all the other squads with Winona ties are busy.
The University of Minnesota Men & Women will be lapping the Iowa Hawkeyes in Iowa City Friday night. Both Matt Papenfuss and Abbey Staats should be making the trip and I will report on how they and the Gophers do south of the border.
Also Friday night the Minnesota State University - Mankato Mavericks will swim at home against their rivals right up the road in St. Peter, Gustavus Adolphus. Mary Bastian will be looking to help her Mavericks get into the win column for the first time this season.
Saturday sees the Winona YMCA Winfins travel to Austin for the annual Pumpkin Relays. Usually the first meet of the season, the Winfins have their National Virtual meet under their belts so they should swim well in Austin.
The SMU Cardinals will travel to St. Paul and swim against the Pipers of Hamline. Both the schools squads, men & women are close in size so it should be a good competition. As soon as I see results I will let you know how Winonans John Fox and Aaron Hayes do, as well as our adopted Winonan Tom Walsh.
Also on Saturday UW-LaCrosse will drive past us to swim in Northfield at the Cows, Colleges, & Contentment Classic with Carlton and St. Olaf.
Sunday the Winona Wizards will be traveling to Farmington for the Tigershark Thanksgiving Classic. Shannon Wolner will be directing some Wizards while they compete with 650 other USA swimmers in the second open ABC meet of the season which appears to be a very popular weekend.
I will try to post all the results as they become available.
In the mean time, all the other squads with Winona ties are busy.
The University of Minnesota Men & Women will be lapping the Iowa Hawkeyes in Iowa City Friday night. Both Matt Papenfuss and Abbey Staats should be making the trip and I will report on how they and the Gophers do south of the border.
Also Friday night the Minnesota State University - Mankato Mavericks will swim at home against their rivals right up the road in St. Peter, Gustavus Adolphus. Mary Bastian will be looking to help her Mavericks get into the win column for the first time this season.
Saturday sees the Winona YMCA Winfins travel to Austin for the annual Pumpkin Relays. Usually the first meet of the season, the Winfins have their National Virtual meet under their belts so they should swim well in Austin.
The SMU Cardinals will travel to St. Paul and swim against the Pipers of Hamline. Both the schools squads, men & women are close in size so it should be a good competition. As soon as I see results I will let you know how Winonans John Fox and Aaron Hayes do, as well as our adopted Winonan Tom Walsh.
Also on Saturday UW-LaCrosse will drive past us to swim in Northfield at the Cows, Colleges, & Contentment Classic with Carlton and St. Olaf.
Sunday the Winona Wizards will be traveling to Farmington for the Tigershark Thanksgiving Classic. Shannon Wolner will be directing some Wizards while they compete with 650 other USA swimmers in the second open ABC meet of the season which appears to be a very popular weekend.
I will try to post all the results as they become available.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Winhawks mirror their dual meet season at Big 9 Conference Meet.
The Winona Winhawk Girls’ Swimming Team went into the Big 9 meet having defeated, Rochester Mayo, Austin & Albert Lea, and fallen to Owatonna, Faribault, Rochester JM & Rochester Century. At the completion of the Big 9 Meet, the landscape looked similar, only now the Winhawks could add Mankato East & West to the defeated column. Winona finished 5th behind those same teams that caused them difficulty in the dual meet season. Of course Rochester JM beat up on everybody and the Faribault Falcons beat up on everyone but JM, so the Winhawks had their sights set on Owatonna, which was their closest dual meet of the season. The two teams finished 50 points apart in the end, which in Championship scoring isn’t much of a difference. Not knowing who was tapered and who will be swimming what events, the Section 1AA meet will be a great contest to watch.
The Winhawks came ready to swim and dive and appeared to have put trick or treating on the back burner and out of their minds. In spite of still working hard and only in the early throws of tapering, there were some excellent swims, some seasonal and individual bests and gusty performances.
The Diving prelims and semi-finals were held in the AM. Coach JJ had to get Crystal Franswa and Janelle Mueller up early to head to Albert Lea HS on their own. Warm-ups were at 9 and diving started at 10AM. There were 35 divers competing which made for a long warm-up and a lot of time to watch the others and contemplate. Being a championship meet, divers need to have an eleven dive list, 5 required dives and 6 optional dives. Winhawk 8th grader Janell Mueller looked a little nervous on her first dive, a Forward dive pike position, rushing it a little bit and caused the judges some issues on how to judge it. After that she settled down nicely. Her next three dives all scored 20+ points. She got good height on her Forward 1 1/2ss pike and a very pretty Back dive layout that scored her 3.5 up to 5’s. She ended up just missing the cut to semi-finals by a few points and will take some added experience into Sections. Winhawk 9th Grader Crystal Franswa was pretty consistent through out her competition. Her opening dive, a Front 1 ½ ss pike went for 4.5’s to 5.5’s and got her going well. Her final dive of the prelims, a Front 2ss in pike position scored only 3.0 – 4.5’s but the higher 2.2 degree of difficulty scored her 25.30 points and made a good transition into the semi-finals. She got a great lead-off in the Semi’s with a beautiful Back Dive layout that scored 4.5 to 6.0’s. Next she threw a newer dive for her, a Forward 1 ½ SS with 1 twist (I only recall one other diver trying it on Saturday). A little loose, the judges were widely dispersed in scores from 1.5 to 4.0, but that higher DD of 2.2 scored her 22 points, well worth the risk of throwing it. She finished the semi’s with a pretty Reverse Dive Layout scoring 4.0 – 5.5’s for a 183.95 subtotal and 11th place going into the Finals in the afternoon. Diving has an unpredictable element to it for the coaches and the divers, as to where you stand. Some divers save their best dives for last, so they know psychologically the best is yet to come. Others throw their “bread & butter” dives early to get high in the standings early and try to ride the wave into the finals to make sure they get there. So the divers themselves rarely know what is to come in the finals, only that they have to focus on what they are doing, and let the chips fall where they may. Crystal saved her “good stuff” for the Finals leading off with a Forward 1ss with 2 twists, a DD of 2.3 that netted her 28.60 points. She followed up with a beautiful Inward 1 ½ ss tuck that went for 5.5 – 6.5’s and 37.4 points. She wrapped up Finals with a Back 1ss with 2 ½ twists, DD of 2.7. The Degrees of Difficulty range from 1.0 – 3.1, so the DD of 2.7 is about as hard a dive as there is on 1 meter board. She scored 3.0 – 4.0 for the dive but that high DD got her 27.00 points. Her final 3 dives lifted her up two spots to finish 9th and a promising outlook for Sections!
On a personal note, I really wish there was a way we could get the diving boards back to the HS so swimming & diving competitions reunite. The competition is worth the effort it would take.
The swimming got underway at 2PM and it was an exciting atmosphere. After months of duals meets against each other and a partially attended Section True Team, they were all together at once. The stands were packed to overflowing with attendants urging everyone to squeeze closer and closer together. Everyone, teams and parents were ready for a good meet.
The 200Medley Relay hasn’t been a strong point for the Winhawks all season but they gave it their all. The “B” relay of JR. Erin Bernardy, FR. Grace Ell, 8th Gr. McKenna Marg and JR. Taylor Johnson couldn’t score points (only one relay is allowed in Champ meets, the other swims exhibition) but they swam a good 2:10.93 that moved them a few places higher in the standings. The “A” Relay of JR Samantha Quandahl, 8th Gr Reese Galewski, FR Alexandra Zuelke and SR. Co-Captain Aimee Peterson all had good swims and it was necessary. Obviously the electricity of the meet had everyone inspired. The Winhawks were in a dead heat all the way through both Samantha’s and Reese’s BK and FL legs, Alexandra swam her best split of the season to open up a lead and Aimee swam her best freestyle split in 6 weeks allowing the Winhawks to maintain their 8th place seed and 0.3 seconds out of 7th. The Rochester JM team shattered the pool record by just over 2 seconds. This was the first indication this would be a hard fought day in the pool.
The 200FR led off with 8th Gr. Gabby Kleinow digging deep and pulling ahead in the last 25 yards to win the first heat, bettering her seed time by nearly 3 seconds. Haley O’Neil swam a gutsy race. Seeded sixth in her heat, she took the lead at the 100 and held it through the 150 mark falling back to touch 2nd in a season best 2:11.23. SO Olivia Staats swam a 2:10.64 for 15th place overall. The winning swimmer from JM again shattered the pool record by 3.5 seconds, a common theme for the rest of the day.
The 200IM started out with a season’s best swim from JR Mallory Porter, cutting over 4 seconds off her seed time. Fr Alexandra Zuelke’s swim produced the first referee issue. Everyone on the deck and in the stands saw Alex touch 2nd in her heat but her time on the Daktronics system scoreboard showed differently. After Coach Burt protested, the Scorer’s table had to defer to the Officials’ order of finish and subsequently the back-up times to correctly log her finish as 2:26.13 in 9th place only 0.3 seconds out of the medals.
The 50FR was one of the high points of the meet for the Winhawks. Being such a “quick” event and without having tapered yet, JR Taylor Johnson and SR Aimee Peterson swam their seed times and finished in 20th and 13th place respectively. JR Bridget Bawek swam her best time of the season to move up and medal in 5th place. SO MacKenzie Brosnahan, being the awesome utility swimmer that she is, swam the 50 for only the second time this season but set a new personal best at 24.95 moving up to 5th fastest ever as a Winhawk and good for a Big 9 2nd place medal.
The 100BF Saw JR Erin Bernardy swim a personal best 1:16.77, bettering her seed time by over 3 seconds and moving up over 9 spots in the final standings. One of the team leaders, JR. Samantha Quandahl swam a season best 1:04.00 moving up from 10th seed into the medals at 7th place.
The 100FR saw SR Co-Captain Aimee Peterson, who has been busy swimming the 500FR all season, swim a season best 59.02 and JR Bridget Bawek swam her fastest time in almost 2 months to bot score poins for the Winhawks. SO MacKenzie Brosnahan swam her second fastest 100 of the season, at 55.38 to medal again in 3rd place.
The 500FR delivered one of the most exciting races of the day. It is an event of the future for the Winhawks. All season long some of the utility Winhawk swimmers like Aimee Peterson, Samantha Quandahl and MacKenzie Brosnahan have plugged in to swim when needed. Here at Big 9 they were needed to swim elsewhere leaving the underclasswomen to fend for themselves. Winhawk 7th grader McKenzie Porter, one of only a half dozen 7th graders to compete at Big 9, rose to the challenge. Coach Burt instructed her to go out with and STAY with the 9th grader in the lane next to her, telling her exactly what he wanted her to do to accomplish it. An interesting side factor to the equation was that even though the swimmer was from Austin, McKenzie and the swimmer had befriended each other last summer during a weeks stay at the YMCA’s Camp Olsen. Although there was earlier pre-meet discussion and catch-up, there was no such interaction as they waited behind the blocks. Both knew what their mission was, to beat the other. McKenzie was so jazzed up to get going that she nearly jumped and almost false started. The Referee stood the swimmers up and after remaining motionless on the second try, sent them. McKenzie stayed right with the older “fellow camper”, causing what appeared to be some panic on the Austin swimmer’s part and a push early on that McKenzie matched. At the midway point, lap 11, McKenzie pulled ahead putting another scare into the 9th grader from Austin and the two went head to head for the remainder. The Austin swimmer could not let the younger upstart show her up and dug deep to pull out a victory in the last 25 yards with McKenzie touching a few seconds back in 6:18.29. McKenzie moved up 6 spots from her seed to 25th place in the final standings, improving her personal best by almost 5 seconds and earning a LOT of respect.
The 200 Free Relay, unlike the Medley, has been a high point for the Winhawks this season winning every dual meet contest but one. JR. Bridget Bawek, 8th Gr Haley O’Neil, SR. Co-Caption Aimee Peterson and SO MacKenzie Brosnahan swam a season best 144.92 to touch 2nd in their heat and take 3rd overall. A driven Owatonna relay had won the previous heat with a 2 ½ second time drop that took 2nd overall setting up a BIG show down for Sections. This performance also moved these girls up one notch to being the 5th fastest in Winhawk history, a half second behind the team of Jenny Bentley, Olson, Sarah Daniels and Becky Sutton way back in 1990.
The 100BK was an event of surprises and acknowledging hard work for the Winhawks. The event saw the first heat containing Winhawk JR Erika Jonsrud who was swimming the event for the first time. You wouldn’t have guessed it by her performance, executing her turns like a veteran and winning the heat and ultimately moving up 6 spots in the standings from her seed time to 26th place! Winhawk SO Olivia Staats came next, winning her heat in a personal best 1:07.74 and also moving up four spots to finish 14th overall. The last Winhawk to cash in on her hard work was JR Samantha Quandahl who swam a personal best 1:06.55 dropping 6 spots to finish in 10th place overall.
The 100BR saw Winhawk JR Taylor Johnson continue to get better and better. She swam a personal best for the fourth time this year, touching in 1:15.68 good for 10th place overall. The final heat featured Winhawk FR Alexandra Zuelke seeded 5th and medaling in that same spot. She swam a 1:13.39 just off her season’s best implying good things to come at Sections.
The 400 Free Relay has also been a strong point for the Winhawks winning every dual meet contest but one as well. Seeded third in the final heat, the Winhawks team led by JR. Bridget Bawek, SO Olivia Staats, SO MacKenzie Brosnahan and FR Alexandra Zuelke (who swam her fastest FR relay split ever at 56.95) edged out Faribault to medal 2nd overall.
Winhawk Big 9 - All Conference Selections:
Junior Bridget Bawek
Junior Samantha Quandahl
Sophomore MacKenzie Brosnahan
Freshman Alexandra Zuelke
Honorable Mention Big 9:
Senior Co-Captain Aimee Peterson
Final Standings
1st Rochester John Marshall 527 pts
2nd Faribault 299 pts
3rd Rochester Century 265 pts
4th Owatonna 251 pts
5th Winona 207 pts
6th Rochester Mayo 179 pts
7th tie Albert Lea & Austin 138 pts
9th Mankato West 128 pts
10th Mankato East 67 pts
A SPECIAL thanks to Jan Brosnahan for keeping all the swimmer and relay season statistics which make this blog so much more information filled on season performances.
The Winhawks came ready to swim and dive and appeared to have put trick or treating on the back burner and out of their minds. In spite of still working hard and only in the early throws of tapering, there were some excellent swims, some seasonal and individual bests and gusty performances.
The Diving prelims and semi-finals were held in the AM. Coach JJ had to get Crystal Franswa and Janelle Mueller up early to head to Albert Lea HS on their own. Warm-ups were at 9 and diving started at 10AM. There were 35 divers competing which made for a long warm-up and a lot of time to watch the others and contemplate. Being a championship meet, divers need to have an eleven dive list, 5 required dives and 6 optional dives. Winhawk 8th grader Janell Mueller looked a little nervous on her first dive, a Forward dive pike position, rushing it a little bit and caused the judges some issues on how to judge it. After that she settled down nicely. Her next three dives all scored 20+ points. She got good height on her Forward 1 1/2ss pike and a very pretty Back dive layout that scored her 3.5 up to 5’s. She ended up just missing the cut to semi-finals by a few points and will take some added experience into Sections. Winhawk 9th Grader Crystal Franswa was pretty consistent through out her competition. Her opening dive, a Front 1 ½ ss pike went for 4.5’s to 5.5’s and got her going well. Her final dive of the prelims, a Front 2ss in pike position scored only 3.0 – 4.5’s but the higher 2.2 degree of difficulty scored her 25.30 points and made a good transition into the semi-finals. She got a great lead-off in the Semi’s with a beautiful Back Dive layout that scored 4.5 to 6.0’s. Next she threw a newer dive for her, a Forward 1 ½ SS with 1 twist (I only recall one other diver trying it on Saturday). A little loose, the judges were widely dispersed in scores from 1.5 to 4.0, but that higher DD of 2.2 scored her 22 points, well worth the risk of throwing it. She finished the semi’s with a pretty Reverse Dive Layout scoring 4.0 – 5.5’s for a 183.95 subtotal and 11th place going into the Finals in the afternoon. Diving has an unpredictable element to it for the coaches and the divers, as to where you stand. Some divers save their best dives for last, so they know psychologically the best is yet to come. Others throw their “bread & butter” dives early to get high in the standings early and try to ride the wave into the finals to make sure they get there. So the divers themselves rarely know what is to come in the finals, only that they have to focus on what they are doing, and let the chips fall where they may. Crystal saved her “good stuff” for the Finals leading off with a Forward 1ss with 2 twists, a DD of 2.3 that netted her 28.60 points. She followed up with a beautiful Inward 1 ½ ss tuck that went for 5.5 – 6.5’s and 37.4 points. She wrapped up Finals with a Back 1ss with 2 ½ twists, DD of 2.7. The Degrees of Difficulty range from 1.0 – 3.1, so the DD of 2.7 is about as hard a dive as there is on 1 meter board. She scored 3.0 – 4.0 for the dive but that high DD got her 27.00 points. Her final 3 dives lifted her up two spots to finish 9th and a promising outlook for Sections!
On a personal note, I really wish there was a way we could get the diving boards back to the HS so swimming & diving competitions reunite. The competition is worth the effort it would take.
The swimming got underway at 2PM and it was an exciting atmosphere. After months of duals meets against each other and a partially attended Section True Team, they were all together at once. The stands were packed to overflowing with attendants urging everyone to squeeze closer and closer together. Everyone, teams and parents were ready for a good meet.
The 200Medley Relay hasn’t been a strong point for the Winhawks all season but they gave it their all. The “B” relay of JR. Erin Bernardy, FR. Grace Ell, 8th Gr. McKenna Marg and JR. Taylor Johnson couldn’t score points (only one relay is allowed in Champ meets, the other swims exhibition) but they swam a good 2:10.93 that moved them a few places higher in the standings. The “A” Relay of JR Samantha Quandahl, 8th Gr Reese Galewski, FR Alexandra Zuelke and SR. Co-Captain Aimee Peterson all had good swims and it was necessary. Obviously the electricity of the meet had everyone inspired. The Winhawks were in a dead heat all the way through both Samantha’s and Reese’s BK and FL legs, Alexandra swam her best split of the season to open up a lead and Aimee swam her best freestyle split in 6 weeks allowing the Winhawks to maintain their 8th place seed and 0.3 seconds out of 7th. The Rochester JM team shattered the pool record by just over 2 seconds. This was the first indication this would be a hard fought day in the pool.
The 200FR led off with 8th Gr. Gabby Kleinow digging deep and pulling ahead in the last 25 yards to win the first heat, bettering her seed time by nearly 3 seconds. Haley O’Neil swam a gutsy race. Seeded sixth in her heat, she took the lead at the 100 and held it through the 150 mark falling back to touch 2nd in a season best 2:11.23. SO Olivia Staats swam a 2:10.64 for 15th place overall. The winning swimmer from JM again shattered the pool record by 3.5 seconds, a common theme for the rest of the day.
The 200IM started out with a season’s best swim from JR Mallory Porter, cutting over 4 seconds off her seed time. Fr Alexandra Zuelke’s swim produced the first referee issue. Everyone on the deck and in the stands saw Alex touch 2nd in her heat but her time on the Daktronics system scoreboard showed differently. After Coach Burt protested, the Scorer’s table had to defer to the Officials’ order of finish and subsequently the back-up times to correctly log her finish as 2:26.13 in 9th place only 0.3 seconds out of the medals.
The 50FR was one of the high points of the meet for the Winhawks. Being such a “quick” event and without having tapered yet, JR Taylor Johnson and SR Aimee Peterson swam their seed times and finished in 20th and 13th place respectively. JR Bridget Bawek swam her best time of the season to move up and medal in 5th place. SO MacKenzie Brosnahan, being the awesome utility swimmer that she is, swam the 50 for only the second time this season but set a new personal best at 24.95 moving up to 5th fastest ever as a Winhawk and good for a Big 9 2nd place medal.
The 100BF Saw JR Erin Bernardy swim a personal best 1:16.77, bettering her seed time by over 3 seconds and moving up over 9 spots in the final standings. One of the team leaders, JR. Samantha Quandahl swam a season best 1:04.00 moving up from 10th seed into the medals at 7th place.
The 100FR saw SR Co-Captain Aimee Peterson, who has been busy swimming the 500FR all season, swim a season best 59.02 and JR Bridget Bawek swam her fastest time in almost 2 months to bot score poins for the Winhawks. SO MacKenzie Brosnahan swam her second fastest 100 of the season, at 55.38 to medal again in 3rd place.
The 500FR delivered one of the most exciting races of the day. It is an event of the future for the Winhawks. All season long some of the utility Winhawk swimmers like Aimee Peterson, Samantha Quandahl and MacKenzie Brosnahan have plugged in to swim when needed. Here at Big 9 they were needed to swim elsewhere leaving the underclasswomen to fend for themselves. Winhawk 7th grader McKenzie Porter, one of only a half dozen 7th graders to compete at Big 9, rose to the challenge. Coach Burt instructed her to go out with and STAY with the 9th grader in the lane next to her, telling her exactly what he wanted her to do to accomplish it. An interesting side factor to the equation was that even though the swimmer was from Austin, McKenzie and the swimmer had befriended each other last summer during a weeks stay at the YMCA’s Camp Olsen. Although there was earlier pre-meet discussion and catch-up, there was no such interaction as they waited behind the blocks. Both knew what their mission was, to beat the other. McKenzie was so jazzed up to get going that she nearly jumped and almost false started. The Referee stood the swimmers up and after remaining motionless on the second try, sent them. McKenzie stayed right with the older “fellow camper”, causing what appeared to be some panic on the Austin swimmer’s part and a push early on that McKenzie matched. At the midway point, lap 11, McKenzie pulled ahead putting another scare into the 9th grader from Austin and the two went head to head for the remainder. The Austin swimmer could not let the younger upstart show her up and dug deep to pull out a victory in the last 25 yards with McKenzie touching a few seconds back in 6:18.29. McKenzie moved up 6 spots from her seed to 25th place in the final standings, improving her personal best by almost 5 seconds and earning a LOT of respect.
The 200 Free Relay, unlike the Medley, has been a high point for the Winhawks this season winning every dual meet contest but one. JR. Bridget Bawek, 8th Gr Haley O’Neil, SR. Co-Caption Aimee Peterson and SO MacKenzie Brosnahan swam a season best 144.92 to touch 2nd in their heat and take 3rd overall. A driven Owatonna relay had won the previous heat with a 2 ½ second time drop that took 2nd overall setting up a BIG show down for Sections. This performance also moved these girls up one notch to being the 5th fastest in Winhawk history, a half second behind the team of Jenny Bentley, Olson, Sarah Daniels and Becky Sutton way back in 1990.
The 100BK was an event of surprises and acknowledging hard work for the Winhawks. The event saw the first heat containing Winhawk JR Erika Jonsrud who was swimming the event for the first time. You wouldn’t have guessed it by her performance, executing her turns like a veteran and winning the heat and ultimately moving up 6 spots in the standings from her seed time to 26th place! Winhawk SO Olivia Staats came next, winning her heat in a personal best 1:07.74 and also moving up four spots to finish 14th overall. The last Winhawk to cash in on her hard work was JR Samantha Quandahl who swam a personal best 1:06.55 dropping 6 spots to finish in 10th place overall.
The 100BR saw Winhawk JR Taylor Johnson continue to get better and better. She swam a personal best for the fourth time this year, touching in 1:15.68 good for 10th place overall. The final heat featured Winhawk FR Alexandra Zuelke seeded 5th and medaling in that same spot. She swam a 1:13.39 just off her season’s best implying good things to come at Sections.
The 400 Free Relay has also been a strong point for the Winhawks winning every dual meet contest but one as well. Seeded third in the final heat, the Winhawks team led by JR. Bridget Bawek, SO Olivia Staats, SO MacKenzie Brosnahan and FR Alexandra Zuelke (who swam her fastest FR relay split ever at 56.95) edged out Faribault to medal 2nd overall.
Winhawk Big 9 - All Conference Selections:
Junior Bridget Bawek
Junior Samantha Quandahl
Sophomore MacKenzie Brosnahan
Freshman Alexandra Zuelke
Honorable Mention Big 9:
Senior Co-Captain Aimee Peterson
Final Standings
1st Rochester John Marshall 527 pts
2nd Faribault 299 pts
3rd Rochester Century 265 pts
4th Owatonna 251 pts
5th Winona 207 pts
6th Rochester Mayo 179 pts
7th tie Albert Lea & Austin 138 pts
9th Mankato West 128 pts
10th Mankato East 67 pts
A SPECIAL thanks to Jan Brosnahan for keeping all the swimmer and relay season statistics which make this blog so much more information filled on season performances.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Minnesota Gophers Rout Wisconsin Badgers in the pool
The University of Minnesota men’s swimming and diving opened its 2009-10 season with a strong performance tonight against the University of Wisconsin, defeating the Badgers 198-101 in Madison, Wis. The Golden Gophers won all but one event, amassing 15 total wins.
Prior to the meet the Gophers had a lot on the line as they had some great streaks going: (from the Gopher web site)
GOPHER MINNY-NOTES
• Minnesota leads the series 50-41
• Minnesota has won 21 straight against Wisconsin
• Minnesota faces Wisconsin twice this season for the first time since the 1993-94 season
• Minnesota has won its last 11 Big Ten opening meets
• The Gophers have won its last four road openers
So on opening night they did not want to disappoint.
They won all the relays and Winona Matt Papenfuss was a member of the winning 400 FR Relay
Matt was 3rd in the 200 freestyle:
3 Papenfuss, Matt SO Minnesota 1:44.31
25.02 51.88 (26.86) 1:18.51 (26.63) 1:44.31 (25.80)
6th in the 100FR:
6 Papenfuss, Matt SO Minnesota 47.53
23.09 47.53 (24.44)
He swam exhibition in the 100FL
-- Papenfuss, Matt SO Minnesota X52.86
24.83 52.86 (28.03)
and his 400FR Relay win
1 Minnesota 'A' 3:03.23
1) Richards, Michael JR 2) Carlson, Curt JR
3) Baseheart, Kevin JR 4) Papenfuss, Matt SO
22.02 46.29 (46.29) 1:07.62 (21.33) 1:31.00 (44.71)
1:52.89 (21.89) 2:17.09 (46.09) 2:39.13 (22.04) 3:03.23 (46.14)
Minnesota Women dominate Wisconsin Badgers in the pool, win 179 2. to 121. Wisconsin won the two relays and 5 individual events but Minnesota had a deeper line-up winning 9 individual events which included 1-2 in the 1000FR, 1-2-3-4 in the 200FR and winning both 1 and 3 meter diving.
Winonan Abbey Staats was also in action and swam very well!
She placed 6th in the 50FR:
6 Staats, Abigail FR Minnesota 24.32
5th in the 100FR:
5 Staats, Abigail FR Minnesota 52.87
25.72 52.87 (27.15)
She also swam in the 2nd place 400Fr Relay:
2 Minnesota 'A' 3:28.99
1) Davies, Marissa SO 2) Eggers, Alison JR
3) Staats, Abigail FR 4) Braun, Megan JR
25.37 52.38 (52.38) 1:16.86 (24.48) 1:44.13 (51.75)
2:09.50 (25.37) 2:36.96 (52.83) 3:01.81 (24.85) 3:28.99 (52.03)
Prior to the meet the Gophers had a lot on the line as they had some great streaks going: (from the Gopher web site)
GOPHER MINNY-NOTES
• Minnesota leads the series 50-41
• Minnesota has won 21 straight against Wisconsin
• Minnesota faces Wisconsin twice this season for the first time since the 1993-94 season
• Minnesota has won its last 11 Big Ten opening meets
• The Gophers have won its last four road openers
So on opening night they did not want to disappoint.
They won all the relays and Winona Matt Papenfuss was a member of the winning 400 FR Relay
Matt was 3rd in the 200 freestyle:
3 Papenfuss, Matt SO Minnesota 1:44.31
25.02 51.88 (26.86) 1:18.51 (26.63) 1:44.31 (25.80)
6th in the 100FR:
6 Papenfuss, Matt SO Minnesota 47.53
23.09 47.53 (24.44)
He swam exhibition in the 100FL
-- Papenfuss, Matt SO Minnesota X52.86
24.83 52.86 (28.03)
and his 400FR Relay win
1 Minnesota 'A' 3:03.23
1) Richards, Michael JR 2) Carlson, Curt JR
3) Baseheart, Kevin JR 4) Papenfuss, Matt SO
22.02 46.29 (46.29) 1:07.62 (21.33) 1:31.00 (44.71)
1:52.89 (21.89) 2:17.09 (46.09) 2:39.13 (22.04) 3:03.23 (46.14)
Minnesota Women dominate Wisconsin Badgers in the pool, win 179 2. to 121. Wisconsin won the two relays and 5 individual events but Minnesota had a deeper line-up winning 9 individual events which included 1-2 in the 1000FR, 1-2-3-4 in the 200FR and winning both 1 and 3 meter diving.
Winonan Abbey Staats was also in action and swam very well!
She placed 6th in the 50FR:
6 Staats, Abigail FR Minnesota 24.32
5th in the 100FR:
5 Staats, Abigail FR Minnesota 52.87
25.72 52.87 (27.15)
She also swam in the 2nd place 400Fr Relay:
2 Minnesota 'A' 3:28.99
1) Davies, Marissa SO 2) Eggers, Alison JR
3) Staats, Abigail FR 4) Braun, Megan JR
25.37 52.38 (52.38) 1:16.86 (24.48) 1:44.13 (51.75)
2:09.50 (25.37) 2:36.96 (52.83) 3:01.81 (24.85) 3:28.99 (52.03)
Winhawk Varsity heads to Big 9
The Winona Winhawk Girl's Swimming Team heads to Albert Lea Saturday to contest the Big 9 Championship.
Swimming is an odd team sport. Unlike many other sports, the dual season meet part of the season doesn't mean a lot, for a number of reasons.
1) Regardless of your dual meet record, your team gets to swim in the Conference meet.
2) Team results in Conference have little effect on Sections.
3) Sections Championships are everything. They determine whether you get to swim at state. You either place high enough in an event’s finishing results or by swimming the required time standard.
As such, Conference is a stepping stone, and a different one for different teams and swimmers.
Swimmers taper at the end of the season. A taper is "the reduction of workload during a period immediately prior to a major competition." During the first three weeks of a taper (according to studies) changes that occurred were "increases in power, neuromuscular efficiency, anaerobic contribution of the swim, fast twitch muscle recruitment, and mechanical efficiency."
For different swimmers, their major competition may be Conference, it may be Sections, and it may be State. Why is explained by the opportunities to swim in the post season. There are limits on the number of entries allowed in meets. In duals it is based on the number of lanes in the pool. For championship meets, teams are limited to four individual entries per event and one per relay. With a large squad, they may not be able to swim everyone at Sections, so for some of their swimmers, their last meet would be Conference. As such they would be tapered or rested, probably even shaved (Shaving down has been a long-time companion of the taper. Shaving down for a swim meet is for gaining an advantage of a few tenths of a second. Just what does shaving body hair do? Shaving results in faster swims independent of training. The advantages of shaving are related to a decrease in drag to be overcome by a swimmer. The final result is that less power application in the pull pattern is required to overcome that drag.). Yes, I believe some of the girls have not shaved their legs for a month or two.
So some swimmers will be tapered for Conference. Possibly skewing the results of who really is faster.
Also, our conference has both Class A and Class AA teams as members. So at Sections and State they are held to different standards, yet at Conference they are all swimming to one standard, best time.
Conference is a fun meet, there are rivalries, they are the same swimmers that they raced against earlier in the season in dual meets, and maybe mostly, it is about bragging rights.
And what swimmer doesn't like that!
Swimming is an odd team sport. Unlike many other sports, the dual season meet part of the season doesn't mean a lot, for a number of reasons.
1) Regardless of your dual meet record, your team gets to swim in the Conference meet.
2) Team results in Conference have little effect on Sections.
3) Sections Championships are everything. They determine whether you get to swim at state. You either place high enough in an event’s finishing results or by swimming the required time standard.
As such, Conference is a stepping stone, and a different one for different teams and swimmers.
Swimmers taper at the end of the season. A taper is "the reduction of workload during a period immediately prior to a major competition." During the first three weeks of a taper (according to studies) changes that occurred were "increases in power, neuromuscular efficiency, anaerobic contribution of the swim, fast twitch muscle recruitment, and mechanical efficiency."
For different swimmers, their major competition may be Conference, it may be Sections, and it may be State. Why is explained by the opportunities to swim in the post season. There are limits on the number of entries allowed in meets. In duals it is based on the number of lanes in the pool. For championship meets, teams are limited to four individual entries per event and one per relay. With a large squad, they may not be able to swim everyone at Sections, so for some of their swimmers, their last meet would be Conference. As such they would be tapered or rested, probably even shaved (Shaving down has been a long-time companion of the taper. Shaving down for a swim meet is for gaining an advantage of a few tenths of a second. Just what does shaving body hair do? Shaving results in faster swims independent of training. The advantages of shaving are related to a decrease in drag to be overcome by a swimmer. The final result is that less power application in the pull pattern is required to overcome that drag.). Yes, I believe some of the girls have not shaved their legs for a month or two.
So some swimmers will be tapered for Conference. Possibly skewing the results of who really is faster.
Also, our conference has both Class A and Class AA teams as members. So at Sections and State they are held to different standards, yet at Conference they are all swimming to one standard, best time.
Conference is a fun meet, there are rivalries, they are the same swimmers that they raced against earlier in the season in dual meets, and maybe mostly, it is about bragging rights.
And what swimmer doesn't like that!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Winona JV Does well at Big 9.
The Winona Winhawks Girls' Swimming Team took their JV swimmers to Owatonna to strut their stuff and they did just that. Typically overshadowed by the varsity events in the dual meets, this was the JV swimmers chance to shine.
When I get the official results I will be able to elaborate on the relays, the contestants and their splits.
Notable performances included:
8th gr. Razil Campbell and FR Sami Johnson went into the 200IM seeded 5 & 6 respectively. They were in lanes 3 & 4, started side-by-side and stayed that way through out the entire race. They pushed each other to where they both shaved 4+ seconds off their seed times. Razil ended up touching out Sami but more importantly they moved up to finish 3-4 in the event.
In the 50FR the Winhawks had their highest contingent of swimmers, as did most of the teams. Winhawk SO Katie Taylor swam neck and neck with a Faribault swimmer the entire way and managed to touch her out shaving nearly 3 seconds off her seed time. Elizabeth Stretcher and 7th gr Sarah Hunsicker both improved on the seed times in the next heat. 8th grader Morgan Crowson had a big race in the 8th heat. Bettering her seed time by 1.3 second that deep in the event meant she moved up 7 places in the final standings. In eth second to last heat, SR. Denni Cisewski, FR Ashlen Haines, & FR Emily Krause were seeded 7th, 9th& 10th respectively. They finished 1-2-3 in their heat and Denni & Ashlen moved up to 4th & 5th place overall.
In Diving Megan Seely finished 5th overall with a four dive program that included a Forward 1ss ½ tw that went for 3’s and a 3.5, an Inward dive pike that scored 3.5 and 4’s, a well performed Inward 1ss tuck that went for straight 5’s, and a Forward 1 ½ ss tuck that netted 4.5’s and a 5.
In the 100FL FR Sami Johnson swam her seed time and picked up a solid second place.
The 100 FR saw SO Katie Taylor, 7th Gr Sarah Hunsicker and Elizabeth Strecher all in the initial heat together and ALL saw significant drops from their seed times! FR Samantha Berg cut 5+ seconds off her seed time and moved up a full 4 places in the standings. SO Kayla Berg was the 19th seed swimming in the 5th heat. She dropped 3 full seconds and moved from 19th to 6th overall!
In the 200Fr Relay the Winona C relay was seeded 16th. The other two were seeded 1st & 5th. In the end, they finished 3-4-5, with the ”C” relay moving up 11 spots!
The 100BK had FR Emily Krause seeded 4th and swimming her seed time to bring home a 3rd place!
The 100BR had Greer Kosidowski and Razil Campbell seeded 2nd & 5th respectively and that is exactly how they finished.
All in all it was a very exciting and enjoyable meet. When I get more details and scores I will pass them on.
When I get the official results I will be able to elaborate on the relays, the contestants and their splits.
Notable performances included:
8th gr. Razil Campbell and FR Sami Johnson went into the 200IM seeded 5 & 6 respectively. They were in lanes 3 & 4, started side-by-side and stayed that way through out the entire race. They pushed each other to where they both shaved 4+ seconds off their seed times. Razil ended up touching out Sami but more importantly they moved up to finish 3-4 in the event.
In the 50FR the Winhawks had their highest contingent of swimmers, as did most of the teams. Winhawk SO Katie Taylor swam neck and neck with a Faribault swimmer the entire way and managed to touch her out shaving nearly 3 seconds off her seed time. Elizabeth Stretcher and 7th gr Sarah Hunsicker both improved on the seed times in the next heat. 8th grader Morgan Crowson had a big race in the 8th heat. Bettering her seed time by 1.3 second that deep in the event meant she moved up 7 places in the final standings. In eth second to last heat, SR. Denni Cisewski, FR Ashlen Haines, & FR Emily Krause were seeded 7th, 9th& 10th respectively. They finished 1-2-3 in their heat and Denni & Ashlen moved up to 4th & 5th place overall.
In Diving Megan Seely finished 5th overall with a four dive program that included a Forward 1ss ½ tw that went for 3’s and a 3.5, an Inward dive pike that scored 3.5 and 4’s, a well performed Inward 1ss tuck that went for straight 5’s, and a Forward 1 ½ ss tuck that netted 4.5’s and a 5.
In the 100FL FR Sami Johnson swam her seed time and picked up a solid second place.
The 100 FR saw SO Katie Taylor, 7th Gr Sarah Hunsicker and Elizabeth Strecher all in the initial heat together and ALL saw significant drops from their seed times! FR Samantha Berg cut 5+ seconds off her seed time and moved up a full 4 places in the standings. SO Kayla Berg was the 19th seed swimming in the 5th heat. She dropped 3 full seconds and moved from 19th to 6th overall!
In the 200Fr Relay the Winona C relay was seeded 16th. The other two were seeded 1st & 5th. In the end, they finished 3-4-5, with the ”C” relay moving up 11 spots!
The 100BK had FR Emily Krause seeded 4th and swimming her seed time to bring home a 3rd place!
The 100BR had Greer Kosidowski and Razil Campbell seeded 2nd & 5th respectively and that is exactly how they finished.
All in all it was a very exciting and enjoyable meet. When I get more details and scores I will pass them on.
Tonight the Winona Winhawk Swimmers with compete at the Big 9 Conference JV Meet
The Winhawk JV’ers travel to Owatonna to swim at the Middle School Pool.. The Winhawk JV’ers have been highly competitive all season long, undefeated according to my records. Perhaps because the Winhawls' opponents keep throwing everything they can at the Varsity, but even the Big 9 heaveyweight Rochester JM Rockets did not have the numbers to keep up to the Winhawk JV'ers resulting in a 93-33 victory. They are a strong group of swimmers looking to move up to Varsity in the upcoming seasons.
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