St. Charles swim team sets 6 records
With the start of the championship swim series, the St. Charles Swim Team continued to compete at a high level. On Feb. 17, they set six team records in one day.
Fifteen-year-old Angie Chokran had the opportunity to swim with 21 Olympians, including Michael Phelps, at the Toyota/USA Swimming Grand Prix in Columbus, Mo. It was there that she broke her own record in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:14.38, eight seconds away from an American record.
Nicole Chapko, 12, set her third team record in the past three months. She finished the 100-yard IM at 1:04.24 at the Chicagoland Swim Conference Championships in Naperville. In addition to a team record, she also captured two conference titles in the 100-yard IM and the 50-yard freestyle.
Meagan Popp, 10, became an individual conference champion in all three of the events that she swam: 50-yard breaststroke, 100-yard IM, and 100-yard freestyle. She broke her own team record in the breaststroke with a time of 34.42 and broke a 7- year-old team mark in the IM with a time of 1:08.28.
Five relay teams from St. Charles took the conference title in their events. The 9-10 girls continued their success, winning the 200-yard medley and freestyle relays. The medley relay team of Emma Kuszynski, Popp, Lauren McCormack and Erin Hart set a new team record of 2:12.21. Popp, Kuszynski, Hart and Lucy Johnson then helped the 9-10 girls sweep their relays by posting a time of 2:01.88 to take the freestyle relay championship.
Then the 13-14 girls, Sarah Sykstus, Kirsten Hutchinson, Hailey Lucher and Rachel Burke, achieved a team record of 1:42.51 and won conference in their event.
Austin Muehschlegel, Kyle Gannon and Jason Suda won the 11-12-year-old 200 yard medley and freestyle relay conference titles.
Other St. Charles swimmers took home individual conference titles including Rachel Burke: 13-14-year-old girls 100-yard freestyle (54.83); Mitch Milosch: 8-year -old & under boys 100-yard IM (1:23.52); and Shaun Seuschek: 13-14-year-old boys 200-yard IM (2:07.10).