Lakeville teams win SSC swim duals

Unbeaten South faces Prior Lake this week

Lakeville South remained undefeated in South Suburban Conference girls swimming and diving, defeating Burnsville on Sept. 26 for the Cougars’ fifth dual meet victory of the season.

South jumped in front by coming in first and third in the 200-yard medley relay. The first-place team consisted of seventh-grader Kate Rivers, junior Karly Trewin and ninth-graders Lily Wilkinson and Madi Parent. The third-place team had sophomores Hailey Gross and Taylor Hintz plus juniors Ana Clemon and Julia King.

Sophomore Gracie Weishaar dominated in the 200 freestyle, coming in first place almost nine seconds before Madeline Noble of Burnsville.

South swept the first three places in the 200 individual medley, with Wilkinson just out-touching teammate Clemon for first, while Parent was third.

Hintz got to the wall before Burnsville’s Liv Vatafu by two-tenths of a second to take first in the 50 freestyle. Senior Quinn Weaver won the diving event for South.

Wilkinson got her second first-place finish of the night in the 100 butterfly, with South seventh-grader Ari Zak third.

South sophomore Kaylee Krohn, junior Gina Schonthaler and senior Hannah Butler finished second, third and fourth in the 100 freestyle behind Vatafu, who came in first place for Burnsville.

Parent and Weishaar scored first- and second-place points for South in the 500 freestyle. Both turned around to immediately help South take first and third in the

200 freestyle relay and clinch the team victory. The first place team was Karly Trewin, Clemon, Wilkinson and Parent; in third were King, Butler, Krohn and Weishaar.

All three Cougars who swam the 100-yard backstroke got season-best times: Clemon, Gross and Rivers. More season-bests went to Hintz and Karly Trewin in the 100 breaststroke.

The Lakeville South junior varsity also won its meet against Burnsville. South highlights included senior Lauren Hawkins, juniors Lillian Launsbach and Allie Strege and eighth-grader Daisy Trewin winning the 200 medley relay. Krohn and ninth-grader Nicole Klimpke placed first and second in the 200 freestyle. Strege and Hawkins came in first and second in the 200 individual medley, Butler took first in the 50 freestyle.

Rivers, Daisy Trewin and Klimpke swept the first three spots in the JV 100 freestyle. Zak and sophomore Bianca Silkey took first and second in the 100 breaststroke.

On Thursday, Oct. 3, Lakeville South will host Prior Lake at the Blanchard Aquatic Center at Century Middle School at 6:00 p.m. Prior Lake is ranked seventh in Class AA by Minnesota Swim and Vibe.

Lakeville North

Lakeville North is 2-3 in the South Suburban after defeating Farmington on September 26 at the Panthers’ home pool, the Blanchard Aquatic Center at Century Middle School.

The fastest relay teams from both schools battled it out in the 200-yard medley relay but North ultimately got to the wall first, with a team of junior Payton Hultgren, sophomore Justine Anderson, junior Whitney Szorcsik and senior captain Addie Marsolek.

Ninth-grader Chandler Offerman dominated in the 200 freestyle, coming in with a season-best time of 2 minutes, 1.13 seconds. Second place went to fellow ninth-grader Adry Sallander, and fourth place to eighth-grader Lauren Colbert.

It was a Panther sweep of the 200 individual medley with first place going to Szorcsik, second to Justine Anderson and third to ninth-grader Theresa Anderson. Hultgren easily took first place in the 50 freestyle with second going to Marsolek and fourth to sophomore Sydney McCusker.

Eighth-grader Grace Maakestad won the diving event by more than 10 points over second-place Claire Gergen from Farmington. Also scoring for North in diving was seventh-grader Jillian Springer.

Hultgren won her second individual event of the night in the 100 butterfly. Also scoring points for North were Szorcsik in third place and sophomore Kirsten Dunbar in fifth. Marsolek won the 100 freestyle, while teammates Theresa Anderson and Colbert also scored points, both with season-best times.

Three Panthers swam personal-best times in the 500 freestyle. Offerman came in first place in 5:21.94, followed by Sallander in second and Dunbar taking fifth place.

The Panthers’ top 200 freestyle relay teams scored first- and third-place points. Taking first were Marsolek, Sallander, Offerman and Hultgren. The third-place team was Justine Anderson, ninth-grader CC Kinny, Colbert and Theresa Anderson.

Maakestad touched the wall in the 100 backstroke with a lifetime-best time. Kinny also had a lifetime-best in the 100-yard breaststroke. Those were two of what North coach Dan Schneider said were 30 lifetime-best swims for the Panthers during the meet.

Lakeville North also defeated Farmington in the junior varsity dual meet. Highlights included a first-place finish in the 200 medley relay with junior Brennah Kosobud and sophomores Hazel Anderson, Sophia Hipke and Hayden Regier. Third place went to eighth-graders Audrey McClain, Devki Patel and Sayuri Flory, and seventh-grader Olivia Garner.

Kinny, McKinney and Hazel Anderson took the top three spots in the JV 200 individual medley. Seventh-grader Lucy Anstadt won the 50 freestyle with a personal-best time. Kosobud won the 100 breaststroke with a season-best time.

Scoring points for the Panthers in the 400 freestyle relay were the second-place team of Hipke, McClain, Devki Patel and ninth-grader Elsa Batty, and the third-place team of Regier, eighth-grader Lillie Schaffer, sophomore Ella Springer and ninth-grader Meera Patel.

On Thursday, Oct. 3, Lakeville North will travel to Burnsville to take on the Blaze at 6:00 p.m..