State Swimming Results
The Fenwick swim teamcapped off its history making season in impressive fashion by placing 12th at the IHSA State Meet on Saturday in Winnetka. Fenwick tallied 49.5 points, while Rosary won the state title with 154 points.

As for the Friars, they easily met head coach Renee Miller’s goals of several top 12 finishes in individual and relay events. In fact, their 12th-place state finish is the best in school history.

“I think the girls had a great meet [state finals],” Miller said. “They definitely stepped up and really surpassed any of our expectations. We really only had a few swimmers, including our diver [Mary Kate Campbell] back with experience at state this year, so this was truly an unbelievable accomplishment.”

Stephanie Ovalle finished 10th in the state in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.74 seconds. Fellow sophomore Casey Dollard also garnered a pair of 10th-place marks in the 200-yard individual medley (2:10.70) and 100-yard backstroke (:58.49). In the 100-yard backstroke, Kelly Ryan timed in three spots ahead of Dollard at 58.18 seconds.

Coming off a great effort at the Fenwick sectional, senior team captain Krystle Kutak finished ninth at state in the 100-yard butterfly (:57.80).

In the diving competition, Mary Kate Campbell earned the highest individual honor for Fenwick by taking third with a score of 378.85.

The Friars’ relay teams also earned several tremendous times. Fenwick pulled off a hat trick of 10th-place showings in the 200-yard medley relay, 200-yard freestyle relay, and 400-yard freestyle relay events. In the 200-yard medley relay, Maryclare Finn, Mariclaire Bresnahan, Dollard and Kutak teamed up to post a time of 1:50.73.

In the 200-freestyle relay, Morgan Bonk, Bresnahan, Ryan and Ovalle scored a 1:38.66. In the final event of the day, the 400-yard freestyle relay, the Friars’ Ovalle, Dollard, Ryan and Bonk produced a time of 3:35.35.

LT’s relay swims in finals

In the team’s only event during Saturday’s finals, the Lions’ 200-yard medley relay team of Sarah Norris, Madeline Moeller, Meg Vertovec and Erica Ronning took 11th place with a time of 1:50.95.

In the preliminaries on Friday night, several LT and Riverside Brookfield swimmers performed well, despite not qualifying for the top 12 spots.

In individual events, LT’s Kristi Carling finished 26th in diving (1:41.35), while teammates Norris (:59.37) and GiGi Groya (:59.46) took 18th and 21st, respectively, in the 100-yard backstroke. In other freestyle relay events, LT took 15th in the 200-yard and 16th in 400-yard relays.

For Riverside Brookfield, which was coming off a strong second-place showing at the Fenwick Sectional, seniors Devon Thomas (:59.49) and Martha Sitkiewicz (1:00.12) clocked in for 23rd and 26th finishes, respectively, in the 100-yard butterfly. Megan St. John swam the 500-yard freestyle in 5:19.27 to finish 22nd.

The Bulldogs’ 400-yard freestyle relay team of Amanda Gregus, Sara Martinek, Devon Thomas and St. John timed in at 3:42.17 for 25th.