By Becky Walz,
The pool was busy Saturday at the 44th annual Marcussen Invite, held in Cedar Falls.
The Decorah swim and dive team posted 175.5 points, good for fifth place out of 10 teams. Cedar Falls was the team champion, scoring 510 points.
Decorah had two events win the bronze medal. Brinley Krivachek had a great day on the one-meter diving board. The senior scored 403.75 points to earn third place.
The 400-yard freestyle relay was shining as well with a time of 3:57.33. Members of the bronze-medal team were Paige Werner, Katerina Kovarik, Julia Alberts and Maeley Nefzger. That same quartet took fifth in the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:47.27.
The pool was busy Saturday at the 44th annual Marcussen Invite, held in Cedar Falls.
The Decorah swim and dive team posted 175.5 points, good for fifth place out of 10 teams. Cedar Falls was the team champion, scoring 510 points.
Decorah had two events win the bronze medal. Brinley Krivachek had a great day on the one-meter diving board. The senior scored 403.75 points to earn third place.
The 400-yard freestyle relay was shining as well with a time of 3:57.33. Members of the bronze-medal team were Paige Werner, Katerina Kovarik, Julia Alberts and Maeley Nefzger. That same quartet took fifth in the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:47.27.
The Vikings had four other top-10 finishes as well including Alberts in two individual events. She posted a time of 2:07.23 in the 200-yard freestyle for sixth and was ninth in the 100-yard freestyle in 58.85 seconds. Taking seventh in the 50-yard freestyle in 26.49 seconds was Paige Werner, while Kovarik was eighth in the 200-yard individual medley in 2:28.61.
Decorah has a triangular with Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids Jefferson Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 6 p.m., in Cedar Falls and host the North Central Swim Conference meet Saturday, Oct. 15, at 12 p.m., at Luther College.
Team scores
1. Cedar Falls 510; 2. Waukesha South 426; 3. Mason City 310; 4. Bettendorf 269; 5. Decorah 175.5; 6. Dubuque Senior 158; 6. Dubuque Wahlert 158; 8. Cedar Rapids Jefferson 119.5; 9. Waterloo 116; 10. Cedar Rapids Washington 83
Varsity race results
1 mtr. diving – 3. Brinley Krivachek 403.75; 7. Kailyn O’Gara 341.90; 17. Chloe Sheffield 230.00
200 medley relay – 13. Maeley Nefzger, Brenna Parker, Isabella Sailor, Rebecca Bruening, 2:09.64; 17. Thea Schissel, Kylie O’Hara, Autumn Schmitt, Mya Redenius, 2:15.17; 21. Lauren Holthaus, Jorja Folkedahl, Kalissa Schmelzer, Gracie Thompson, 2:39.01
200 free – 6. Julia Alberts 2:07.23; 28. Annie Ondrashek 2:36.35; 29. Lily Iverson 2:39.61
200 IM – 8. Katerina Kovarik 2:28.61; 18. Schissel 2:42.54; 19. Grace Stegen 2:43.62
50 free – 7. Paige Werner 26.49; 27. Bruening 30.29; 30. Faith Starrett 32.89
100 fly – 13. Sailor 1:11.30; 19. Redenius 1:17.98; 21. Schmelzer 1:21.07
100 free – 9. Alberts 58.85; 12. Werner 59.68; 13. Kovarik 59.69
500 free – 12. Joey Vobr 6:12.21; 16. Bruening 6:32.09
200 free relay – 5. Werner, Nefzger, Kovarik, Alberts, 1:48.27; 16. Stegen, Schmitt, Parker, Sailor, 2:03.24
100 back – 10. Nefzger 1:07.72; 14. Schissel 1:10.39; 20. O’Hara 1:11.69
100 breast – 17. Parker 1:22.56; 18. Redenius 1:23.09
400 free relay – 3. Werner, Kovarik, Alberts, Nefzger, 3:57.33; 15. Vobr, Stegen, Iverson, Starrett, 4:42.32
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