Darryl Mellema
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Girls swimming: No doubt in Naperville Central's DuselNov 21, 2015 12:00 am - Where some divers get onto the board and work their twists and spins in their heads before executing the dive, Naperville Central's Sydney Dusel is something of an anoma...
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Metea Valley in position for top-10 state swimming finishNov 20, 2015 12:00 am - In its brief history Metea Valley's girls swim team has never finished in the Top 10 in a state meet. Whether or not the Mustangs achieve that feat in today's state fina...
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Girls swimming: Rosary in position to win state titleNov 20, 2015 12:00 am - It's possible to find some fault with Rosary's performance at Friday girls swimming preliminaries. But if you're digging that deep to find negatives, you've really misse...
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Girls swimming: Rosary in prime position to compete for state titleNov 19, 2015 12:00 am - There are many names for the sheet which ranks the state's girls swimmers by time heading into the state meet preliminaries, which starts Friday with 9 a.m. diving and t...
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Girls swimming: St. Charles East wins sectionalNov 14, 2015 12:00 am - For the third time this season, St. Charles East and St. Charles North eyed each other across a girls swimming pool, and the result was a further affirmation of just how...
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Girls swimming: Rosary's sectional goal? Qualify everyoneNov 12, 2015 12:01 am - Since mid-August, swimming pools across Illinois have been filled with swimmers, practicing both in early mornings and in afternoons. Practices have been trimmed to just...
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Girls swimming: St. Charles North UEC champOct 31, 2015 1:00 am - In keeping with Halloween, costumed athletes and coaches were to be seen variously on-deck at Saturday's Upstate Eight Conference girls swim meet. None, however, were be...
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Girls swimming: St. Charles East solid 3rd at college events meetOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - Once a year, St. Charles East hosts a college events girls swim meet, and it is a day when high schoolers can show how they can perform in the distances in which collegi...
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Neuqua's pieces falling into placeOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - There were some nervous moments for Neuqua Valley's girls swimming team immediately after Saturday's St. Charles North Invitational. The Wildcats led going into that fin...
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Girls swimming: St. Charles North 2nd at own inviteOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - There was a real-world opportunity to measure the heart in St. Charles North's girls swim team on Saturday when adversity materialized in the North Stars' annual invitat...