Craig Boys Swim Team: Big 8 Conference

Saturday, February 8

Big 8 Conference

The Craig team came to the Big 8 Conference meet held for the first time at the new Beloit Memorial pool ready to swim their fastest times of the season.
The 200 Medley Really team of Loftus (Back), Boutelle (Breast), Bradley (Fly) and Reese (Free) had their best time of the season with a 1:48.93.
In the 200 Freestyle, senior Zach Boutelle (2:00.09) and sophomore Alex Condon (2:04.16) both swam personal bests.
Freshman, Drew Carter and Michael Cullen lettered at the Conference meet. Drew lettered in the 100 Freestyle with a PR of 58.20 and PR'd the 100 Backstroke 1:08.16). Michael Cullen earned PRs in both the 200 (2:06.82) and the 100 Freestyle. He lettered in the 100 Free with a time of 57.07.
Sophomore, Alex Goswick earned a PR in the 200 Individual Medley (2:28.63) dropping a second and a half off his previous time. Also in the 200 IM, Peter Loftus earned 6th place in the Conference and set a new PR (2:03.54) by slicing more than THREE seconds off his time.
Three of Craig's sprinters set personal records in the 50 Freestyle: Sophomores, Howard Fritch (27.04) and Cole Chesemore (26.05), Junior Grayson Lindau (24.78).
Flyers Cole Chesemore (1:06.83) and Sullivan Bradley (1:00.83) both swam their best times of the season.
In addition to Michael and Drew's PRs in the 100 Freestyle were PRs set by Trevor Young (1:04.94), Bearach McCarthy (57.13) and Erik Tollefsrud (55.70).
Craig High School's lone 500 yard Freestyle swimmer at Conference, sophomore Alex Condon, was 'in the zone' in his race. Alex managed to keep his pace steady throughout the twenty laps and burned more than SIX seconds off his time (5:29.65).
Craig's A and B 200 Freestyle Relay teams recorded their best times of the season. The B team of Lindau, McCarthy, Goswick and Boutelle had a time of 1:39.49 and the A team of Reese, Tollefsrud, Bradley and Loftus recorded a time of 1:35.53.
Peter Loftus earned a 7th place spot on the Conference podium following his PR (57.74) in the Backstroke.
Grayson Lindau continued dropping time from his Breaststroke setting a new personal record with a time of 1:09.75.
The A and B 400 Freestyle Relay teams beat their seed times. The B team of Carter, Cullen, Wojcik and Reilly swam a 4:09.93 and the A team of McCarthy, Condon, Goswick and Lindau swam a 3:45.90.
With the end-of season taper going into effect, it was awesome to see the swimmers setting personal records left and right. Congratulations and GO COUGARS at the WIAA Sectionals Meet next Saturday!