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WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Marshfield won two events, set two new school records and placed second at the 2025 Wisconsin Valley Conference Boys Swim Meet on Thursday at Lincoln High School.
Stevens Point won its sixth-straight conference title, finishing with 430 points, with Marshfield second with 324. Combined with the dual meet season, Marshfield also placed second behind Stevens Point, the Tigers’ highest finish since taking second in 2022.
Marshfield’s relay team of Simon Dagit, Zach Kayhart, Carson Klumb and Kevin Buth won the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:30.76 and placed third in the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:27.68, setting new program records in each event. The 200 relay mark was set last year, with Dagit, Buth and Klumb part of that as well, while the 400 record broke a mark set in 1987.
Marshfield’s other win came from Dagit in the 100-yard butterfly in a time of 53.21 seconds.
Dagit also took second in the 50 freestyle (22.36), Klumb placed third in the 200 freestyle (1:56.25) and the 100 freestyle (52.07), and Kayhart was third in the 100 backstroke (1:02.32) for the Tigers.
Four WVC Meet records were set by a pair of D.C. Everest swimmers. Keaton Barwick won the 50 freestyle in 20.59 and the 100 freestyle in 45.31, and Will Van Ermen won the 200 individual medley in 1:57.06 and the 100 backstroke in 51.42, breaking conference records in each event.
Marshfield will compete at a WIAA Division 1 sectional at Hudson Middle School with diving taking place Friday, Feb. 14, and swimming on Saturday, Feb. 15. Winners of each event and the next 18 best times statewide among all the sectionals qualify for the 2025 WIAA State Boys Swimming & Diving Championships at Waukesha South High School on Feb. 22.
2025 Wisconsin Valley Conference Boys Swim Meet
Feb. 6, at Lincoln High School, Wisconsin Rapids
Team scores: 1. Stevens Point 430; 2. Marshfield 324; 3. D.C. Everest 304; 4. Wisconsin Rapids 100; 5. Wausau East/West 91.
Final overall standings (combined with dual meet season): 1. Stevens Point 26; 2. Marshfield 20; 3. D.C. Everest 14; 4. Wisconsin Rapids 8; 5. Wausau East/West 2.
Winners and Marshfield finishers
200 medley relay: 1. Stevens Point (Jacob Faust, Landon Bicknase, Tony Raczek, Gavin Stelzer) 1:40.37; 4. Marshfield (Luke Hilbelink, Joshua Peters, Zander Zorman, Ethan Sampson) 1:55.45; 9. Marshfield (Neel Gonugunta, Kaden Reisner, Dakota Langreck, Kai Rens) 2:12.06; 11. Marshfield (Ehmrey Schmoll, Will Bernarde, Connor Reisner, David Flink) 2:46.92.
200 freestyle: 1. Henry Bowling (SP) 1:51.31; 3. Carson Klumb (MAR) 1:56.25; 6. Paul Ugoretz (MAR) 2:10.33; 8. Lincoln Berger (MAR) 2:11.71.
200 individual medley: 1. Will Van Ermen (DC) 1:57.06; 4. Zach Kayhart (MAR) 2:11.91; 4. Kevin Buth (MAR) 2:14.51; 12. K. Reisner (MAR) 2:37.74.
50 freestyle: 1. Keaton Barwick (DC) 20.59; 2. Simon Dagit (MAR) 22.36; 5. Hilbelink (MAR) 24.24; 9. Sampson (MAR) 26.20.
100 butterfly: 1. Dagit (MAR) 53.21; 9. Zorman (MAR) 1:16.78; 10. Langreck (MAR) 1:32.64.
100 freestyle: 1. Barwick (DC) 45.31; 3. Klumb (MAR) 52.07; 7. Ugoretz (MAR) 55.45; 8. Peters (MAR) 57.30.
500 freestyle: 1. Bowling (SP) 5:13.02; 5. Berger (MAR) 6:07.22; 9. C. Reisner (MAR) 6:57.38; 10. Schmoll (MAR) 7:04.61.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Marshfield (Dagit, Kayhart, Klumb, Buth) 1:30.76; 3. Marshfield (Hilbelink, Sampson, Ugoretz, Peters) 1:40.34; 8. Marshfield (Berger, Bernarde, Rens, Zorman) 1:52.06.
100 backstroke: 1. Van Ermen (DC) 51.42; 3. Kayhart (MAR) 1:02.32; 6. Hilbelink (MAR) 1:04.36; 9. Gonugunta (MAR) 1:19.98.
100 breaststroke: 1. Jacob Faust (SP) 1:01.71; 4. Peters (MAR) 1:5.66; 5. Buth (MAR) 1:08.64; 7. K. Reisner (MAR) 1:12.46.
400 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Barwick, Wes Polley, Benjamin Soehl, Van Ermen) 3:18.78; 3. Marshfield (Dagit, Kayhart, Buth, Klumb) 3:27.68; 5. Marshfield (Ugoretz, Sampson, Bernarde, K. Reisner) 3:54.56; 10. Marshfield (Berger, Gonugunta, Rens, C. Reisner) 4:27.56.