Winhawks finish 10th at Albert Lea Tiger Relays

2010 ALBERT LEA TIGER RELAYS

The Winona Winhawk Boys Swimming & Diving Team competed in the 2010 Albert Lea Tiger Relays on Saturday. It was a great first meet opportunity for a squad filled with first time swimmers. Aided by the weather cancellation of the prior Thursday, the Winhawks got to work together in an all-relay format to get the jitters out of their systems and work on some starts and exchanges.

There were some great surprises mixed in amongst the results. I have not yet got splits, but specifically, the Winhawk 200 Medley relay finishing in the middle of the results, 7^th out of 13 teams, is a huge confidence builder. The team of Junior Avery Prodzinski Cotter Freshman Dretske, Sr. Co-Captain Louie La Porta and Junior Alex Kline will be a great lead out for many of the dual meets to come.


Not a surprise but more of an affirmation, the Winona Diving Corp moved up from last year’s standings. They were 4^th last year and the group of Sr. Co-Captain Justin Bublitz, Sr. Stan Petkov and Cotter Junior Daniel Karnack improved on that to have the best result of the Winhawks for the day ay 2^nd place! I hope the Winhawk swimmers appreciate their diving brethren as their diving points this season are going to come in quite handy.


Another outstanding result is the 300 Medley Relay. The team of Cotter Freshman Cal Dretske, First year Winhawk Freshman Hodd Gorman, and Sr. Co-Captain Louie La Porta finish an accomplished 7^th right in the middle of the pack as well.

The 200 Freestyle Relay of Juniors Alex Kline, Avery Prondzinski, and Joey Kleinow joined Sr. Co-Captain Louie La Porta for a respectable 8^th place finish.

The last standout result was the always avoided butterfly event. Last year’s Winhawk team had only two individuals, the graduated Winhawk Matt Bagshaw and now injured Cotter Freshman Roger Brosnahan swim the fly all season. Saturday the Winhawks strung together 8^th Grader Kyle Schneider, with Cotter Freshmen Hodd Gorman and Aaron Whyte. All newcomers to the Winhawks this season, they finished a very respectable 9^th place in the 300 Butterfly race.


Following are the results and Winhawk places and times.

Team scores:

1.      Lakeville North                     170

2.      Lakeville South                    162

3.      Rochester Century              153.5

4.      Mankato West                       138

5.      Northfield                              117

6.      Mankato East                        113

7.      Owatonna                             111.5

8.      Rochester John Marshall   103

9.      Faribault                                  91

10. Winona                                    87

11. Rochester Mayo                     86

12. Austin                                      71

13. Albert Lea                                55

WSHS finishers
200 medley relay: 7^th Winona, (Prondzinski, Dretske, La Porta, Kline), 1:52.85;

Diving: 2^nd Winona (Bublitz, Petkov, Karnick) 490.2,

600 relay: 13^th Winona (Kleinow, Borsari, Mueller); 7:47.2

300 medley relay: 7^th Winona (Dretske, Gorman, La Porta), 3:19.13;

200 freestyle relay: 8^th Winona (Kline, Prondzinski, Kleinow, La Porta), 1:41.01;

300 butterfly relay: 9^th Winona (Schneider, Gorman, Whyte), 3:54.02;

850 crescendo relay: 13^th Winona (Kosidowski, Borsari, Johnson, Gorman), 9:58.34;

300 backstroke relay: 10^th Winona (Prondzinski, Whyte, Borsari), 3:33.00;

300 breast stroke: 10^th Winona (Dretske, Johnson, M. Borsari), 3:58.60;

400 freestyle relay: 13^th Winona (Kline, Kleinow, Schneider, Mueller), 4:19.23.

Next up, the Winhawks have their debut home opener against the Panthers of Rochester Century Tuesday, 6PM at the WSHS Pool.