Beloit may of only finished 7th at the Middleton Sectional, but they were the Team everyone was watching. The Tide swam up to their expectations Saturday as the 200 Medley Relay and Christian Daniels qualified for the WIAA State Meet at the UW-Madison Natatorium next week.
Beloit crushed all of its seed times swimming 100% lifetime bests and placing swimmers in every event they swam in. Swimming in the Big 8 Conference and the Middleton Sectional every year brings the best out of Beloit in the Championship Season. There is no tougher swimming any where week in and week out, including Northern Illinois.
The Tide showed it strength in the skill events, entering no one in the 50 Free and only one swimmer in the 100 free. All four entries in the 200 IM scored points for the Tide, scoring 29 points. Two sophomore school records were set in the 100 Breast and 400 Free Relay.
Beloit Results:
200 Medley Relay:
4th Place 1:42.24 (seed time 1:48.34); Christian Daniels Back 26.67, Caleb Schober Breast 28.16, Cody Schober Fly 25.07, Alec Shu Free 22.34.
15th State Qualifier, 6th fastest time in school history.
200 Free:
12th place 1:53.64 (Seed 1:59.45); Chance Murray
200 I.M.:
5th place 2:01.50 (seed 2:08) Christian Daniels
21st state qualifier 4th fastest time in school history. 10th Place 2:13.67(seed 2:20) Jose Cardenas,
12th place 2:15.19 (seed 2:25) Nick White,
14th place 2:23.78 (seed 2:31) Tyler Dirksen.
100 Fly:
16th place 59.20 (seed 1:01.9) Cody Schober
100 Free:
12th place 50.60 (seed 53.24) Alec Shu
500 Free:
16th place 5:12.42 (seed 5:25.9) Chance Murray 8th Fastest swim in school history.
200 Free Relay:
6th Place 1:33.23 (seed 1:38.80) Alec Shu 22.98(10 fastest 50 in school history), Joe Garestson 24.00, Caleb Schober 23.71, Christian Daniels 22.54. 7th fastest time in school history finished 25 time in state missed cut by .03.
100 Back:
10th Place 58.63 (seed 1:00.7) Jose Cardenas
100 Breast:
2nd Place 1:02.75 (seed 1:06.2) Christian Daniels
3rd Fastest time school history,
16th State Qualifier. 10th place 1:03.99 (seed 1:08.2) Caleb Schober
8th fastest in school history, New Sophomore School Record. Missed cut by .3 finished 28th
400 Free Relay:
10th place 3:40.01(seed 3:49.9) Morgan Poepping 55.42, Joe Garestson 54.61, Jose Cardenas 55.86, Chance Murray 54.12.
New Sophomore School Record
Non Scoring, but outstanding swims (all lifetime BESTS):
100 Fly: Joe Garetson 1:03.54, Londell Bland 1:06.54, Kevin Nguyen 1:07.57
500 Free: Morgan Poepping 5:36.46, Justin Stanton 5:40.04
100 Back: Nick White 1:04.13, Christian Schober 1:04.73
Go TIDE!!