2009 Jump Into Summer Twin A Meet at the U of M

Last Weekend was the wrap-up of the Spring Swim Meet Season. Being an "A" only meet, Ryan Whalen went to represent the Wizards in 7 events.

It was a tough meet, a number of the University of Minnesota swimmers were competing like Curt Carlson, Kevin Baseheart, Nico Zebley and our own Matt Papenfuss, who while wearing Maroon & Gold I am sure was a Wizard in spirit as well.

Ryan's results from this tough field were good. He is after all a sprinter, and he showed well against some major competition.


Event # 46 Male 100 Free 57.39L 24th place
Event # 50 Male 200 Back 2:32.63L 23rd place
Event # 54 Male 100 Fly 1:04.52L 23rd place
Event # 62 Male 100 Breast 1:15.51L 18th place
Event #102 Male 200 Free 2:11.88L 32nd place
Event #106 Male 100 Back 1:07.25L 13th place
Event #114 Male 50 Free 25.82L 8th place

The 8th in his specialty was up against the likes of Matt, AND :

1 Richards, Michael 19 MINN-MN 23.28 23.60 9
2 Carlson, Curt 20 MINN-MN 23.61 24.01 7
3 Miller, Steve 21 MINN-MN 24.42 24.39 6
4 Meeks, Devon 17 Tigersharks-MN 25.16 24.65 5
5 Baseheart, Kevin 20 UN-MI-MN 24.68 24.70 4
6 Papenfuss, Matt 19 MINN-MN 25.31 24.84 3
7 Johnson, Drew 17 Foxjet-MN 25.18 25.15 2
8 Whalen, Ryan 17 UN-WN-MN 27.50 25.82 1

So 4 of the first 8 places were swimmers for the U of MN. Way to show'em Ryan.

Matt's results for all his events were:

Boys 15 & Over 400 LC Meter Freestyle
4 Papenfuss, Matt 19 MINN-MN 4:21.76 4:21.13 5 29.97 32.89 33.22 33.59 33.22 33.29 33.47 31.48

Boys 50 LC Meter Freestyle
6 Papenfuss, Matt 19 MINN-MN 25.31 24.84 3

Boys 100 LC Meter Freestyle
7 Papenfuss, Matt 19 MINN-MN 55.92 54.86 2 26.45 28.41

Boys 200 LC Meter Freestyle
8 Papenfuss, Matt 19 MINN-MN 2:06.67 2:01.26 1 28.23 30.81 31.59 30.63

Boys 100 LC Meter Butterfly
7 Papenfuss, Matt 19 MINN-MN 1:02.53 1:00.57 2
28.13 32.44

Matt will be spending the summer in the Twin Cities working out with his U of M team mates. Perhaps we will bump into him during the course of the summer.