The Whitewater High School girls’ varsity swim team heads into sectionals on the wings of a fourth place finish, including 14 swimmers earning medals and 16 best times recorded, in Saturday’s conference meet.
Medal winners at the Nov. 2 meet at WHS include: 2nd place, 200 Medley Relay – Debra Krebs, Callie Hebert, Sara Foucault and Kassie Yeazel; 2nd place, 200 IM – Sara Foucault; 2nd place, 50 Freestyle – Kassie Yeazel; 2nd place, 100 Butterfly – Sara Foucault; 4th place, 100 Freestyle – Kassie Yeazel; 6th place, 100 Breaststroke – Anna Yeazel; 1st place, 100 Breaststroke – Callie Hebert; 2nd place, 400 Freestyle Relay – Kassie Yeazel, Sydney Zimdars, Callie Hebert and Sara Foucault.
In addition, the top 16 swimmers scored points for the team, accomplished by the following swimmers who swam medal-winning races: Sydney Zimdars, 10th – 200 Freestyle; Olimpia Soto, 14th – 200 Freestyle; Madeline Kuhl 15th – 200 Freestyle; Sydney Hackney, 12th – 200 IM; Debra Krebs, 9th – 100 Butterfly; Olimpia Soto, 14th – 100 Freestyle; Madeline Kuhl, 11th – 500 Freestyle; Debra Krebs, 10th – 100 Backstroke; Sydney Hackney, 13th – 100 Backstroke.
Several swimmers posted best times including: Olimpia Soto (2), Anna Yeazel, Sara Foucault (2), Kassie Yeazel (2), Jacquelyn Caldwell (2), Madeline Kuhl, Sydney Hackney, Debra Krebs and Cristina Rodriguez along with the 200 Freestyle relay team of Debra Krebs, Anna Yeazel, Sydney Hackney and Sydney Zimdars; the 200 Freestyle Relay team of Cristina Rodriguez, Jacquelyn Caldwell, Sarah Schiltz and Madeline Kuhl; and the 400 Freestyle Relay team of Olimpia Soto, Sarah Schiltz, Anna Yeazel and Madeline Kuhl.
“We had some really great swims at the this meet. Olimpia Soto rocked both her races going four seconds faster in the 200 Freestyle to win her heat. She also went two and a half seconds faster in the 100 Freestyle to win her heat,” head coach Gina Foucault said.
Soto wasn’t the only swimmer the coach talked about.
“Teammate Cristina Rodriguez broke 30 seconds in the 50 Freestyle going 29:33, a long time goal of hers in her final race of the season. Yvanna Strait did a great job coming in last minute to swim the 100 Breaststroke and Sarah Schiltz also swam well when added last minute into the 200 IM. Sara Foucault had an interesting meet taking 2nd in the 100 Butterfly that her entire heat had to re-swim because of a lane malfunction. She ended up bettering her time and broke her own school record in the event with a 1:01.55,” Foucault said.
“Callie Hebert won her third Breaststroke title in a very close race. Callie Hebert and Sydney Zimdars both dug deep to swim two relays and an individual event after becoming injured and sick this past week,” she added.
Posting Top 10 times this past week were Sara Foucault in the 100 Butterfly and Sydney Hackney in the 100 Backstroke.
The Sectional meet will take place Saturday, Nov. 9 at 12:30 p.m. at UW-Whitewater.
“This is the qualifying meet for state. Swimmers qualify by winning their event at Sectionals along with the next 12 fastest times in the whole state. Come cheer on the Whippet swimmers as they give it their all,” Foucault said.
