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WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Marshfield won two events and set three new school records at the 2024 Wisconsin Valley Conference Boys Swimming Meet on Thursday at Lincoln High School.
Stevens Point won its fourth-straight WVC Meet title, finishing with 386 points, and forged a tie with D.C. Everest (second, 329 points) for the overall conference title, which combines the conference dual meet season and the conference meet results. Marshfield took third with 324 points and ended up third overall for the season.
The Tigers’ lone swimming win came from the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Simon Dagit, Kevin Buth, Carson Klumb and Henry Hilbelink, which set a new school record in winning the event in 1:30.86. The team that consisted of three of the same swimmers – Klumb, Hilbelink and Dagit – along with Kyle Berres had set the previous school record last season in 1:31.24.
Dagit also set a new school record in the 100-yard butterfly, swimming in 53.68 seconds to place third, and broke a 16-year-old record of 54.84 set by Riley Egger in 2008.
The Tigers’ other school-record shattering performance came from the 200-yard medley relay team of Zach Kayhart, Joshua Peters, Dagit and Buth as they placed third in 1:44.42. The old record was set in 2020 with a time of 1:45.7.
Marshfield’s Alik Martin also won the diving competition with a score of 394.15, with teammates Mason Klotz and Dirk Vanderwyst taking second and third.
Dagit added a runner-up finish in the 50 freestyle in 22.40 seconds, Hilbelink was third in the 100 freestyle (51.44), Kayhart took third in the 100 backstroke (1:01.37), and the 400 freestyle relay team of Hayden Nelson, Kayhart, Klumb and Hilbelink also placed third in 3:31.63.
D.C. Everest won eight of the 11 swimming events and set four new conference meet records – in the 200 medley relay (1:35.70), Keaton Barwick in the 50 freestyle (21.36), David Mayer in the 100 freestyle (46.26), and Will VanErmen in the 100 backstroke (52.26).
Marshfield will compete at the WIAA Division 1 sectional meet on Saturday, Feb. 10, at Hudson.
2024 Wisconsin Valley Conference Boys Swim Meet
Feb. 1, at Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School
Team scores: 1. Stevens Point 386; 2. D.C. Everest 329; 3. Marshfield 324; 4. Wisconsin Rapids 129; 5. Wausau East/West 104.
Final overall standings (includes dual meet schedule): 1. D.C. Everest and Stevens Point 23; 3. Marshfield 14; 4. Wisconsin Rapids and Wausau East/West 5.
Event winners and Marshfield finishers
200 medley relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Will VanErmen, Adam Swedlund, Keaton Barwick, David Mayer) 1:35.70; 3. Marshfield (Zach Kayhart, Joshua Peters, Simon Dagit, Kevin Buth) 1:44.42; 8. Marshfield (Hayden Nelson, Kaden Reisner, Ryan Grassman, Paul Ugoretz) 2:01.54; 10. Marshfield (Max Curtis, Lincoln Berger, Colton Nelson, Mason Klotz) 2:08.01.
200 freestyle: 1. Mayer (DC) 1:45.26; 5. Carson Klumb (MAR) 1:59.39; 6. Carlos Koehn (MAR) 2:02.99; 8. Ugoretz (MAR) 2:22.71.
200 individual medley: 1. VanErmen (DC) 2:03.32; 5. Kayhart (MAR) 2:15.44; 6. Buth (MAR) 2:18.13; 7. H. Nelson (MAR) 2:20.23.
50 freestyle: 1. Barwick (DC) 21.36; 2. Dagit (MAR) 22.40; 4. Henry Hilbelink (MAR) 23.31; 8. Luke Hilbelink (MAR) 24.22.
100 butterfly: 1. William Gargulak (SP) 52.72; 3. Dagit (MAR) 53.68; 8. C. Nelson (MAR) 1:06.19; 11. Grassman (MAR) 1:13.49.
100 freestyle: 1. Mayer (DC) 46.26; 3. H. Hilbelink (MAR) 51.44; 4. Klumb (MAR) 53.16; 8. Peters (MAR) 57.38.
500 freestyle: 1. Henry Bowling (SP) 5:16.25; 5. Koehn (MAR) 5:42.83; 8. Berger (MAR) 6:19.71; 9. Ugoretz (MAR) 6:24.69.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Marshfield (Dagit, Buth, Klumb, H. Hilbelink) 1:30.86; 7. Marshfield (L. Hilbelink, Curtis, Koehn, Grassman) 1:43.66; 9. Marshfield (Klotz, Reisner, Berger, C. Nelson) 1:52.76.
100 backstroke: 1. VanErmen (DC) 52.26; 3. Kayhart (MAR) 1:01.37; 4. H. Nelson (MAR) 1:02.45; 6. L. Hilbelink (MAR) 1:06.38.
100 breaststroke: 1. Swedlund (DC) 1:03.21; 4. Peters (MAR) 1:06.72; 6. Buth (MAR) 1:08.44; 10. Reisner (MAR) 1:19.93.
400 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Wes Polley, Benjamin Soehl, Sean O’Donnell, Mayer) 3:28.27; 3. Marshfield (H. Nelson, Kayhart, Klumb, H. Hilbelink) 3:31.63; 5. Marshfield (Grassman, Koehn, Ugoretz, L. Hilbelink) 3:49.29; 9. Marshfield (Berger, Curtis, Reisner, Peters) 4:17.61.
Diving (does not count toward team score): 1. Alik Martin (MAR) 394.15; 2. Klotz (MAR) 336.70; 3. Dirk Vanderwyst (MAR) 314.05.