Dear SCST Parents:

As some of you may be aware, SCST will soon be going through a period of transition. Our administrator and head coach, Jeremy Meserole has announced his resignation and will be leaving the team in mid August.

The board of directors has already begun the search to find a new head coach and administrator. Please know that we will be making our swimmers our first priority. We will strive to make this transition as seamless as possible both at practices as well as swim meets.

If at any time, you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact myself or any other board member.

Sincerely,

Melody Shanahan

President

All interested candidates please view the following Job Posting. We are seeking a Head Coach to start 9/1/2008. Thank you!

Job Posting

Four SCST men took to the water at the 2008 SC Speedo Sectionals meet held March 6th-9th at the Waukesha South Natatorium.

Nick Hazekamp led the way with a sixth place finish in the 100 Backstroke (:53.36) on his way to setting four team records. Nick set new standards in the Senior 100 and 200 Freestyles (:49.42 and 1:51.06 respectively), and 100 and 200 Backstrokes (:53.36 and 1:58.34 respectively).

John Sedgwick also scored individual points for the SCST, placing 12th in a team record 1:59.42 in the 200 Butterfly.

Nate Johnson and Alex Riegert joined Hazekamp and Sedgwick to score points in the 400 and 800 Freestyle Relays, and the 400 Medley Relay, placing as high as 13th in the Medley.

The men combined for 37 points, placing them 16th amongst all mens teams in the sectional, and 34th overall.

The SCST is now on a break until Monday, March 31st. See you all at Janesville Craig for our first practice of the Long Course Season! Congratulations SCST swimmers!

Eight swimmers took to the water for the SCST at the Schroeder Aquatic Center for the 2008 WI Swimming Senior State Championships held 2/28-3/2. While many other teams brought larger contingencies with them, SCST was very efficient with the swimmers they had, finishing 8th overall in Division II with 190 points . Competing at the state meet for the SCST were Nate Johnson (17, Delavan), Alex Riegert (15, Delavan), John Sedgwick ( 21, Janesville), Nick Hazekamp (17, Janesville), Alex Loftus (14, Janesville), Egemen Gozoglu (18, Turkey), Kevin Schneider (15, Delavan), and Nick Strub (14, Janesville).

Johnson lead the way with three top-8 finishes, including a bronze medal effort in the 200 Breaststroke (2:14.53), a 5th place finish in the 100 Breaststroke (1:01.71), and a 6th place finish in the 400 IM (4:20.66). Riegert added to the medal haul with a 5th place finish in the 50 Freestyle (:22.39), and 7th in the 200 Breaststroke (2:20.91). Also bringing home a medal was Sedgwick with a 6th place finish in the 200 Butterfly (1:59.75).

The quartet of Johnson, Riegert, Sedgwick, and Hazekamp combined to form five scoring relays. They dropped 14 seconds from their seed in the 800 Freestyle Relay to get 13th place with a time of 7:19.21, swam to a 10th place finish in the 200 Freestyle Relay (1:30.13), and to three 9th place finishes in the 200 Medley Relay (1:39.34), 400 Medley Relay (3:38.51), and the 400 Freestyle Relay (3:17.97).

These four, along with Loftus, set numerous team records throughout the course of the meet. Sedgwick set team standards in the Senior 100 Free (:49.76), 50 Butterfly (:25.23), 100 Butterfly (:54.09p), and 200 Butterfly; Johnson in the Senior 200 Breaststroke (2:14.17p) and 400 IM; Riegert in the 15-16 200 Breaststroke (2:18.20p) and 200 IM (2:04.65p); Hazekamp in the Senior 50 Backstroke (:25.50) and 200 Backstroke (2:00.84p); and Loftus in the 13-14 200 Breaststroke (2:33.32).

All eight swimmers swam at least one best time at the meet.

The Green Bay YMCA took the Division II Team title with 633 points, followed closely by the Wausau Tide (613), and the Fox Cities YMCA (556) rounding out the top three.

Winning the Division I and overall title was the Waukesha Express Swim Team with 3,345 points, blowing away the D-I and overall second place Badger Aquatics Club (2,130.5). The Lake Country Swim Team rounded out the top three in D-I with 1,531.5 points.

The SCST scored more points than four of its D-I counterparts, proving that you don’t have to be a big club to be successful.

You can view our team results here or view full meet results on the Wisconsin Swimming website at www.wisconsinswimming.org.

Congratulations to all those competing! Go SCST!