Zach Soper and Griffin Rades each won two events and helped two relay teams take first as the Shawano Community High School boys swimming team opened the season with a 92-77 win over Great Northern Conference foe Lakeland Union Tuesday in Shawano.
“Everybody surprised me,” Shawano coach Walberto Colon said. “It’s very interesting to see how their mindset changes when they start to race. I just need to ensure that they understand that concept going back into school and work. We’re all racing for something.”
Soper, a senior, outpaced his competition in the 100-yard butterfly stroke and the 100 breaststroke. In the butterfly, Soper won with a time of 56.59 seconds. The next closest swimmer was Lakeland’s Evam Andrews, who finished in 1:04.77.
In the breaststroke, Soper finished in 1:07.24, ahead of Lakeland’s Grant Gibson, who finished in 1:20.80.
Rades, a sophomore, finished the 200 individual medley in 2:16.92. He finished the 100 backstroke in 1:02.65.
Those two, along with Adrian Tetting and Jake Klister won the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:50.37. Soper, Rades and Klister were joined by Rolando Colon to win the 400 freestyle relay, which was the last event of the meet and sealed the win for Shawano.
Klister won the 100 freestyle event with a time of 57.66.
“From now on, we’re clear on where they are and what they need to be working on,” Walberto Colon said.
Shawano Results
Team Scoring: 1. Shawano 92; 2. Lakeland Union 77
200 medley relay: 1. Shawano (Griffin Rades, Zach Soper, Adrian Tetting, Jake Klister) 1:50.37; 3. Shawano (James Krueger, Cayman Kunschke, Nathan Kane, Kyle Easter), 2:08.57
200 freestyle: 2. Rolando Colon, 2:11.80; 3. James Krueger, 2:43.85
200 individual medley: 1. Griffin Rades, 2:16.92
50 freestyle: 2. Jake Klister, 23.99
100 butterfly: 1. Zach Soper, 56.59
100 freestyle: 1. Jake Klister, 57.66
500 freestyle: 2. Rolando Colon, 6:18.58; 3. Nathan Kane, 6:51.17
200 freestyle relay: 2. Shawano (Adrian Tetting, Nathan Kane, James Krueger, Rolando Colon), 1:50.73
100 backstroke: 1. Griffin Rades, 1:02.65
100 breaststroke: 1. Zach Soper, 1:07.24
400 freestyle relay: 1. Shawano (Jake Klister, Rolando Colon, Griffin Rades, Zach Soper), 3:49.72; 3. Shawano (Austin Lhotka, Connor Angeli, Matthew Cagijas, Tyler Buerman), 5:02.54
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