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‘Right where we want to be’: La Salle-Peru co-op swimming tops Minooka, Bloomington Central Catholic · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Right where we want to be, La Salle Peru Coop Swimming Tops
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  Minuca. Bloomington Central Catholic. Written by Kevin Schlumber. This
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  Everlett. The stands lining the pool at the Illinois Valley YMCA were
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  nearly full Tuesday as the La Salle Peru Co-op Girls Swimming Team
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  hosted it’s second annual swim for a cure night. There was a
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  ton of people, said LP co-op senior Finlay Jobs, who is a
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  Serena student. Swim meets don't always get a lot of attention, which
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  I mean it's different. A lot of people don't know much about
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  swimming, so it's kind of exciting when there's a big crowd to
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  swim in front of and new faces, it's nice. I like to
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  see it. The fans didn't have to know much about swimming Tuesday
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  to know the Cavaliers turned in a dominant performance. LP won nine
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  of eleven events and tallied ninety seven points to beat Minuka sixty
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  and Bloomington Central Catholic eleven. It was a really strong performance overall,
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  said LP Co op senior Sam Nauman, who is a Henry Senequine
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  student. We had a lot of PRs. I personally did not PR,
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  but I had some pretty strong swims. I’d
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  say the team is right where we want to be with five
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  weeks until sectional. Nauman won they two hundred yard individual medley in
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  two hundred nine nineteen twenty seven point five seconds ahead of second
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  place. She also won the one hundred backstroke in fifty seven point
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  one two seconds, nearly thirteen seconds ahead of second place. I'd say
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  IM pretty happy with where I’m at and the times I'm putting
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  out, Nauman said. I feel they will get me where I am
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  wanting to be at the state meet. Nauman, who is committed to
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  swim at Colorado State University, is working to get back on the
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  metal stand after placing fourth in the 100 backstroke and 10th in
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  the 200 IM last season. I'm really working on my underwaters. That's
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  where I'm strongest, Nauman said. I'm not only working where I'm strongest,
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  I'm also working where I'm weakest. That's one of the best ways
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  to become a better swimmer. So I'm doing a lot of technique
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  work and tempo work right now. I'm also working on aerobic capacities.
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  That's where I'm at in the season right now. IM, topping out
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  my yardage and eventually in the next couple weeks I'll start slowly
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  coming down. Nauman said she'll swim the 100 backstroke at the normal
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  community sectional on November 7 but her other events aren't decided yet.
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  She said. She has her sights set on two more program records
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  Nauman already broke the 500 Freestyle, 517.28 and 100 breaststroke,
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  10738 records, and her own 100 butterfly, 59.55, mark
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  this season. For her career, she also owns the 200 IM, 200
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  Freestyle, 100 Backstroke, and also swam on record setting 200 Medley and
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  200 Freestyle Relays. Nauman hopes to set records in the one hundred
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  freestyle and fifty freestyle. It means a lot to me to break
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  three more records this season, Nauman said. My freshman year, I walked
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  in and saw the records on the wall and I was like,
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  oh my goodness, I’m not gonna get those. I need to really
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  work my butt off. I've done exactly that. I have been putting
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  in the hours, e extra time in the pool, time outside the
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  pool. I'm truly dedicated to the sport, so seeing my times reflect
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  what I'm putting in is really encouraging. Jobst, who won the two
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  hundred Freestyle 20819, and the five hundred Freestyle five forty four point
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  two three, also is hoping to make a strong push before the
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  sectional. I think I could be a little bit better so I'm
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  hoping to drop some more time before sectional rolls around, Jobes said.
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  I'm not perfectly where I want to be, but I'm getting there,
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  so I'm excited. Jobis said. She may swim the two hundred Freestyle
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  and One Hundred Butterfly at sectional along with two relays, but nothing
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  is set yet. Definitely working super hard at not only the meets,
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  but even harder in practice is going to be huge. Jobs said
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  about what she has to do to reach her goals. Working together
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  as a team to encourage everybody to do that also is huge
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  when it comes to relays and everything. Nauman and Jobes both swam
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  on a pair of winning relays Tuesday. The pair teamed with Lillian
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  Clayton and Anna Whitele to win the two hundred Medley relay in
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  one fifty nine point six six and swam with Clayton and Clara
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  Whitele to win the four hundred Freestyle Relay in four hundred four
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  sixty four. Clara and Anna Weidel, Dawson Ketman and Emily Lowry won
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  the 200 Freestyle Relay in 153.8. Here still playing with relay order
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  and trying to really dial in that we're looking at for postseason,
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  Nauman said. Tonight we were really playing with how we wanted our
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  relays set up. I was happy with the relays, we had really
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  good exchanges overall, which is something we've been working on. Other winners
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  for LP were Ketman in the 50 freestyle 27.42 seconds and Lowery
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  in the 100 butterfly 109.12. I think the team is coming along
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  nicely, LP coach Brent Thomas said. We still have quite a few
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  meets in sl in front of us. It gives us time to
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  make some final adjustments as we're getting ready to slide into the
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  postseason. It's minor adjustments, technical things here and there, and some reminding
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  them of some of them basics. Sometimes that gets forgotten, but they're
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  important. Sometimes those basics are the difference between going to state and
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  not going to state. So we want to make sure we're concentrating
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  on those as we keep moving forward. For MUCA, Ava Bolos won
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  the 100 Freestyle in 101, 06 and Mary Pelquet won the 100
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  breaststroke in 1 24.79 We saw this more as a training meet
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  as we get ready for conference on october twenty fourth. Manuka coach
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  Chris Penerfus said, We had a lot of good swims and a
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  lot of areas to improve on. Ava Bolas, one of our freshmen,
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  has been doing great this season. She had another great couple swims.
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  Mary Pelke also stepped up for breaststroke and did an awesome job.
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  Every girl was swimming new races tonight, and all of them did
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  very well.