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WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Stevens Point won five events and earned the team title at the 2023 Wisconsin Valley Conference Girls Swimming Meet on Thursday at Lincoln High School, securing its third-straight WVC championship.
Stevens Point won the meet with 541 points, with D.C. Everest second with 505.5 and Merrill a distant third with 251. Marshfield ended up fifth with 231 and tied for fifth in the overall season standings, which combines the conference meet and dual meet schedule, with Wausau West.
Marshfield won two events and had four runner-up finishes.
Ireland Moran won the conference title in the 50-yard freestyle, finishing in 25.34 seconds, and Brooke Begotka earned a victory in the 100 breaststroke, swimming in 1L09.30.
Begotka also finished second in the 100 butterfly (1:01.69), Terra Risa was the runner-up in the 200 individual medley (2:18.29), and the two were part of two Marshfield relay teams that also placed second.
Moran, Begotka, Risa and Ella Allar finished second in the 200 medley relay (1:53.60), and Moran, Shiloh Smiht, Risa and Begotka took second in the 200 freestyle relay (1:43.93).
Risa added a third-place finish in the 100 butterfly (1:02.61) and Moran finished third in the 100 backstroke (1:01.34) as well for the Tigers.
Marshfield will be back at Wisconsin Rapids to take part in the WIAA Division 1 sectional meet on Nov. 4.
Marshfield’s Sam Bowe was named Coach of the Year and Olivia Schjoneman of Wausau East was selected as the Wisconsin Valley Conference Girls Swimmer of the Year by the conference coaches.
2023 Wisconsin Valley Conference Girls Swimming Meet
Oct. 26, at Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School
Team scores: 1. Stevens Point 541; 2. D.C. Everest 505.5; 3. Merrill 251; 4. Wausau East 249; 5. Marshfield 231; 6. Wausau West 195; 7. Wisconsin Rapids 158.5.
Final overall standings combining WVC Meet and dual meet season: 1. Stevens Point 26; 2. D.C. Everest 22; 3. Wausau East 16; 4. Merrill 12; 5. Marshfield and Wausau West 10; 7. Wisconsin Rapids 2.
Winners and Marshfield finishers
200 medley relay: 1. Stevens Point (Eloise Cooper, Sophie Johnston, Klare Pilger, Jocelyn Trzebiatowski) 1:50.74; 2. Marshfield (Ireland Moran, Brooke Begotka, Terra Risa, Ella Allar) 1:53.60.
200 freestyle: 1. Trzebiatowski (SP) 1:59.99; 19. Sophie Faber (MAR) 3:21.80.
200 individual medley: 1. Pilger (SP) 2:12.09; 2. Risa (MAR) 2:18.29; 11. Hannah LaPointe (MAR) 2:36.61.
50 freestyle: 1. Moran (MAR) 25.34; 11. Shiloh Smith (MAR) 27.16; 14. Allar (MAR) 27.70.
100 butterfly: 1. Marisol Swenson (DC) 59.24; 2. Begotka (MAR) 1:01.69; 3. Risa (MAR) 1:02.61; 17. Katie Wagner (MAR) 1:37.69.
100 freestyle: 1. Marissa Miles (MER) 55.87; 10. Smith (MAR) 1:00.15; 20. Natalie Kanitz (MAR) 1:08.34; 21. Ryann Kilty (MAR) 1:13.58.
500 freestyle: 1. Abby Warnke (DC) 5:25.64.
200 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Swenson, Warnke, Nevaeh Mathwich, Lilli Jensen) 1:42.58; 2. Marshfield (Moran, Smith, Risa, Begotka) 1:43.93.
100 backstroke: 1. Pilger (SP) 58.43; 3. Moran (MAR) 1:01.34; 12. LaPointe (MAR) 1:12.34; 20. Faber (MAR) 1:46.55.
100 breaststroke: 1. Begotka (MAR) 1:09.30; 11. Allar (MAR) 1:24.36; 19. Wagner (MAR) 1:34.89.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Trzebiatowski, Sophia Swetz-Wanta, Claire Lemke, Pilger) 3:46.07; 11. Marshfield (LaPointe, Kanitz, Allar, Smith) 4:18.62; 19. Marshfield (Aly Moore, Ella Brodhagen, Faber, Wagner) 6:18.07.
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