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HUDSON – Marshfield will be well-represented at the WIAA State Boys Swimming and Diving Championships next week as two individuals and a relay team advanced at a Division 1 sectional Friday and Saturday at Hudson Middle School.
On Friday, Shaun Hunter finished second in the diving competition with a total score of 394.80, to move on to state for the second time for Marshfield after also qualifying in 2023.
In the swimming events on Saturday, Simon Dagit took second in the 100-yard butterfly in 52.62 seconds, and teamed with Zach Kayhart, Carson Klumb and Kevin Buth to finish second in the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:31.24, to also move on to the state meet.
Dagit’s swim in the butterfly and the 200 freestyle relay team’s time broke their own school records set at last year’s sectional.
Dagit and Klumb were both part of the 200 free relay team that advanced to state in 2023.
The 2025 WIAA State Boys Swimming & Diving Championships will be held at Waukesha South High School, with Division 2 competition on Friday, Feb. 21, and Division 1 events on Saturday, Feb. 22.
Winners of each event and the next 18 finishers statewide at the five diving and six swimming sectionals qualify for the state meet.
Marshfield’s 200 medley relay team of Kayhart, Joshua Peters, Dagit and Buth came up less than one second short of another state berth as it finished third in 1:41.82. The final cutoff for the event was 1:41.09.
WIAA Division 1 Boys Swimming & Diving Sectional
Diving Feb. 14, Swimming Feb. 15, at Hudson Middle School
Team scores: 1. Hudson 365; 2. Eau Claire Memorial/North 327.5; 3. Stevens Point 326; 4. Marshfield 253; 5. D.C. Everest 249.5; 6. Superior/Northwestern 194; 7. Chippewa Falls/McDonell 142; 8. La Crosse Logan 123; 9. Holmen/Onalaska/Aquinas 83; 10. Wisconsin Rapids 69; 11. Wausau East/West 35.
Winners and Marshfield finishers
Diving: 1. Gabrik Hollenbeck (ECMN) 445.20; 2. Shaun Hunter (MAR) 394.80; 8. Evan Clopton (MAR) 245.00.
200 medley relay: 1. Hudson (Tyler Sias, Brady Wainionpaa, Henry Matzek, Grant Slavsky) 1:38.47; 3. Marshfield (Zach Kayhart, Joshua Peters, Simon Dagit, Kevin Buth) 1:41.82.
200 freestyle: 1. Tony Raczek (SP) 1:48.93; 6. Carson Klumb (MAR) 1:55.50; 12. Paul Ugoretz (MAR) 2:02.21.
200 individual medley: 1. Wainionpaa (HUD) 1:52.85; 8. Kayhart (MAR) 2:13.28; 9. Buth (MAR) 2:15.06.
50 freestyle: 1. Keaton Barwick (DC) 20.45; 4. Dagit (MAR) 22.17; 12. Luke Hilbelink (MAR) 24.10.
100 butterfly: 1. Gabe Secker (ECMN) 52.18; 2. Dagit (MAR) 52.62.
100 freestyle: 1. Barwick (DC) 44.96; 7. Klumb (MAR) 52.24; 13. Ugoretz (MAR) 54.26.
500 freestyle: 1. Kent Zurn (HUD) 5:09.28; 16. Lincoln Berger (MAR) 6:04.24.
200 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Will Van Ermen, Wes Polley, Benjamin Soehl, Barwick) 1:29.15; 2. Marshfield (Dagit, Kayhart, Klumb, Buth) 1:31.24.
100 backstroke: 1. Van Ermen (DC) 52.07; 8. Kayhart (MAR) 1:01.28; 10. Hilbelink (MAR) 1:03.08.
100 breaststroke: 1. Wainionpaa (HUD) 55.73; 8. Peters (MAR) 1:04.41; 10. Buth (MAR) 1:06.22; 12. Kaden Reisner (MAR) 1:12.58.
400 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Barwick, Polley, Soehl, Van Ermen) 3:17.33; 6. Marshfield (Ethan Sampson, Ugoretz, Hilbelink, Klumb) 3:40.13.