Wausau Pilot & Review

WISCONSIN RAPIDS – D.C. Everest won eight events and set four new meet 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. Wausau East/West placed fifth and tied for fourth in the overall final standings.

D.C. Everest won eight of the 11 swimming events and set four new conference meet records – as the 200 medley relay team of Will VanErmen, Adam Swedlund, Keaton Barwick and David Mayer won in 1:35.70, Barwick won the 50 freestyle (21.36), Mayer was victorious in the 100 freestyle (46.26), and VanErmen was first in the 100 backstroke (52.26).

Also earning wins for Evergreens were Mayer in the 200 freestyle (1:45.26), VanErmen in the 200 individual medley (2:03.32), Swedlund in the 100 breaststroke (1:03.21), and the 400 freestyle relay team of Wes Polley, Benjamin Soehl, Sean O’Donnel and Mayer (3:28.27).

Wausau East/West had one top-five finish as Colin Keele placed fifth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:07.60.

All five Wisconsin Valley Conference teams 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 D.C. Everest and Wausau East/West finishers
200 medley relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Will VanErmen, Adam Swedlund, Keaton Barwick, David Mayer) 1:35.70; 6. Wausau East/West (Elliot Barber, Colin Keele, Quinn Barber, Marcus Gruszynski) 1:58.34; 7. D.C. Everest (Cal Berg, Sean O’Donnel, Benjamin Soehl, Kyle Johnson) 1:59.69; 11. Wausau East/West (Marek Puzz, Mason Blank, Brecken Bancuk, Donovan Young) 2:34.15.
200 freestyle: 1. Mayer (DC) 1:45.26; 9. Vance Wendorski (DC) 2:24.29; 10. Jack Place (WAU) 2:24.97; 11. Sully Hanz (WAU) 2:25.24; 12. Xavier Guild (DC) 2:27.44; 14. E. Barber (WAU) 2:49.65.
200 individual medley: 1. VanErmen (DC) 2:03.32; 3. Swedlund (DC) 2:08.59; 10. Keele (WAU) 2:30.93; 11. Bancuk (WAU) 2:24.29; 12. Alex Jelen (DC) 2:46.17.
50 freestyle: 1. Barwick (DC) 21.36; 3. Wes Polley (DC) 23.19; 6. Gruszynski (WAU) 23.82; 12. Q. Barber (WAU) 26.31; 13. Johnson (DC) 26.89; 15. Young (WAU) 31.83.
100 butterfly: 1. William Gargulak (SP) 52.72; 2. Barwick (DC) 52.74; 4. Soehl (DC) 59.14; 10. Q. Barber (WAU) 1:07.49; 12. Jelen (DC) 1:15.94.
100 freestyle: 1. Mayer (DC) 46.26; 7. O’Donnel (DC) 56.94; 11. Hanz (WAU) 1:01.79; 12. Guild (DC) 1:04.85; 13. Puzz (WAU) 1:09.74; 15. Young (WAU) 1:16.94.
500 freestyle: 1. Henry Bowling (SP) 5:16.25; 2. Soehl (DC) 5:17.57; 3. Polley (DC) 5:22.53; 10. Johnson (DC) 6:43.14; 11. Place (WAU) 7:00.44; 12. Blank (WAU) 7:48.11.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Marshfield (Simon Dagit, Kevin Buth, Carson Klumb, Henry Hilbelink) 1:30.86; 2. D.C. Everest (VanErmen, Swedlund, Polley, Barwick) 1:30.93; 6. Wausau East/West (Hanz, Q. Barber, Bancuk, Gruszynski) 1:42.19; 8. D.C. Everest (Berg, Jonathan Gates, Guild, Johnson) 1:48.73; 11. Wausau East/West (E. Barber, Puzz, Young, Place) 1:58.28; 12. D.C. Everest (Wendorski, David Berghahn, Jelen, Triton Ledesma) 2:04.69.
100 backstroke: 1. VanErmen (DC) 52.26; 9. Berg (DC) 1:14.22; 10. Gates (DC) 1:16.46; 11. E. Barber (WAU) 1:19.20; 13. Puzz (WAU) 1:33.79; 14. Blank (WAU) 1:41.06.
100 breaststroke: 1. Swedlund (DC) 1:03.21; 5. Keele (WAU) 1:07.60; 7. O’Donnel 1:12.46; 11. Bancuk (WAU) 1:21.62; 13. Wendorski (DC) 1:23.27.
400 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Polley, Soehl, Sean O’Donnel, Mayer) 3:28.27; 8. D.C. Everest (Berg, Wendorski, Gates, Guild) 4:14.96; 10. Wausau East/West (Hanz, Place, Blank, Keele) 4:26.42.
Diving (does not count toward team score): 1. Alik Martin (MAR) 394.15.