Surprises were not in the air Thursday at Shawano Community High School, and definitely not in the water.
The Hawks’ swimming team stayed perfect in dual meets, posting first-place finishes in 11 events against a shorthanded Medford squad en route to a 119-44 drubbing.
Shawano improved to 9-0 in duals while dropping the visiting Raiders to 1-5.
The Hawks’ Jake Klister, Griffin Rades, Rolando Colon and Nathan Kane were involved in three of the first-place finishes against a Medford club with just eight swimmers on the roster, while James Krueger and Adrian Tetting had a hand in two.
Shawano senior Zach Soper, the defending Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 2 state champion in the 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard backstroke, competed in an exhibition in the 100- and 200-yard freestyle.
“In a meet like this, I work on things like technique, things like the underwater kick,” Soper said. “I tried to go as fast as I could in the 100 free. My goal is to win the state title again. I want to break the record in the backstroke. I think it’s doable.”
Soper swam 50.79 in winning the title last year; the record is 48.35.
Klister, a senior, took nothing for granted Wednesday but also had a bigger meet in mind.
“We treated this like a hard practice,” he said. “We worked on everything we learned in practice. We have a chance at (a top 10 finish) at state. I think we’ve got a good chance to do really well there. It gets more serious toward the end of the year. You work on technique, and on getting things like your diet down to perfection. There’s not much room for error.”
The WIAA sectionals will be held Feb. 13-14, with the state meet set for Feb. 20-21.
Shawano results
200-yard medley relay: 1st, 1:56.74, James Krueger, Griffin Rades, Rolando Colon, Jake Klister; 2nd, 2:00.39, Zach Soper, Cayman Kunschke, Adrian Tetting, Kyle Easter; 4th, 2:29.50 (exhibition), Connor Angeli, Tommy Rankin, Chase Lhotka, Tyler Buerman.
200-yard freestyle: 1st, 2:11.05, Adrian Tetting; 2nd, 2:22.24, Connor Angeli; 3rd, 2:27.99, Nathan Kane.
200-yard IM: 1st, 2:17.09 Griffin Rades; 2nd, 2:43.62, Cayman Kunschke; 5th, 3:17.06, Chase Lhotka.
50-yard freestyle: 1st, 24.36, Jake Klister; 2nd, 27.28, Kyle Easter; 3rd, 27.45, James Krueger.
100-yard butterfly: 1st, 1:10.77, Nathan Kane; 3rd, 1:35.15, Kyle Easter; (exhibition) Rolando Colon 1:03.20.
100-yard freestyle: 1st, 1:02.43, James Krueger; 3rd, 1:07.62, Collin Groch; (exhibition) Zach Soper 50.33.
500-yard freestyle: 1st, 6:57.55, Tyler Buerman; 2nd, 7:00.38, Tommy Rankin; 4th, 8:12.89, Matthew Cagijas.
200-yard freestyle relay: 1st, 1:43.12, Adrian Tetting, Nathan Kane, Griffin Rades, Rolando Colon; 3rd, 2:09.38, Tyler Buerman, Connor Angeli, Tommy Rankin, Matthew Cagijas; (exhibition) 1:42.48, James Krueger, Collin Groch, Jake Klister, Zach Soper.
100-yard backstroke: 1st, 1:15.83, Connor Angeli; 2nd, 1:34.90, Collin Groch; (exhibition) 1:05.12, Adrian Tetting; (exhibition) 1:25.99 Tyler Buerman.
100-yard breaststroke: 1st, 1:19.26, Cayman Kunschke; 4th, 1:46.91, Tommy Rankin.
400-yard freestyle relay: 1st, 4:01.93, Rolando Colon, Cayman Kunschke, Nathan Kane, Jake Klister; 2nd, 4:04.08, Griffin Rades, Collin Groch, Kyle Easter, Zach Soper.
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