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Oswego Co-op junior Owen Lippoldt brings home four medals at IHSA state swim meet · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Uh Oswego co Op junior Owen Lipplet brings home four
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  Speaker 1: medals at IHSA State swim meet. Written by Matt Lacren
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  Speaker 1: for Shaw Local News Network. This article is being read
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  Speaker 1: by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett Well
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  Speaker 1: Swego co Op junior Owen Lippolt got into the pool
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  Speaker 1: in order to follow in the wake of his sister, Zoe.
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  Speaker 1: I started swimming because of my sister, Lippolt said, she
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  Speaker 1: was older. I wanted to be like her, so I
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  Speaker 1: started on the summer team. I just liked the sport,
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  Speaker 1: so I kept going. That was true even after his
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  Speaker 1: sister quit swimming to focus on dance, which she did
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  Speaker 1: throughout high school. Three years into his high school career,
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  Speaker 1: it is clear Lipple is going places. Lipple won four
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  Speaker 1: medals at the state finals on Saturday at fmc not
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  Speaker 1: Tatorium in Westmont. He made the champion in ship heats
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  Speaker 1: in the fifty yard freestyle and one hundred yard freestyle,
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  Speaker 1: finishing third in the former and eighth in the latter. Lippold,
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  Speaker 1: who was sixth in the fifteen and fifteenth in the
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  Speaker 1: hundred as a sophomore, made significant strides in each event.
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  Speaker 1: He was in contention for the state title in the fifty,
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  Speaker 1: clocking a personal best twenty point twenty seven in Friday's preliminaries.
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  Speaker 1: In the finals, lippolt timed twenty point three two to
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  Speaker 1: take third. Vernon Hill's junior Yuri Plaxen won in twenty
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  Speaker 1: points over nine, and Schlarmann senior Charles Medlin was second
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  Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. It was pretty good, Lpoldt said, I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping for better, for sure, but I'm glad I
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  Speaker 1: can go out there and do that for my team.
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  Speaker 1: Having already been in the championship heat last year, Lippolt
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  Speaker 1: knew what to expect and was pumped at the prospect
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  Speaker 1: of being in contention. It feels good, lippold said. It's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of adrenaline going in and it's all about
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  Speaker 1: the small stuff, so it's anyone's game at the end.
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  Speaker 1: US we Go co Op coach Eric Enslin was proud
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  Speaker 1: yet disappointed of Lippoltz near miss. It was heartbreaking. Enslin
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  Speaker 1: said he could win the kid who won it, Yuri.
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  Speaker 1: I've known his coach and we have a pool rivalry.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted both boys to break the twenty second mark.
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  Speaker 1: That was our goal. The nice part is they are
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  Speaker 1: both juniors next year. I'm expecting nineteens out of both
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  Speaker 1: of them. Lippold had lower expectations in one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: after setting a personal best of forty four point seventy
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  Speaker 1: to one in the prelims to qualify for his first
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  Speaker 1: championship heat. In that event, he just wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: out and do his best. He ended up eighth in
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  Speaker 1: forty five point twenty six. Nippolt then added two more
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  Speaker 1: medals in the two hundred free relay and four hundred
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  Speaker 1: free relay. He teamed with senior Ethan Schrader and sophomore
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  Speaker 1: Zach Peterson and Tyler Liske to finish seventh in the
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  Speaker 1: two hundred free relay in one twenty four to fifty
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  Speaker 1: five and ninth in the four hundred free relay in
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  Speaker 1: three four fifty five. That enabled US we Go co
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  Speaker 1: Op to finish eleventh in the team standings with eighty points.
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  Speaker 1: That was only two places lower and seven points fewer
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  Speaker 1: than its twenty twenty five performance, when current Navy freshman
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  Speaker 1: Chase Mayor won state titles in the two hundred free
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  Speaker 1: and five hundred free. We lose Chase, but we didn't
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  Speaker 1: decrease at all. Enslin said they all moved into new roles.
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  Speaker 1: If in Trader kind of stepped up to be the
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  Speaker 1: kind of leader Chase was, and then Owen and Tyler
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  Speaker 1: kind of just moved into the next role. Lippold enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: the added responsibility. It's been pretty cool, he said. It's
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  Speaker 1: definitely different without Chase. But I'm hoping that I can
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  Speaker 1: step up and kind of fill his role the best
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  Speaker 1: I can. I think I'm doing all right. If that
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  Speaker 1: sounds a bit modest, it fits Lippold's personality. I think
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  Speaker 1: he does know how good he could be. It's just
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  Speaker 1: he's not one of those ego kids. Insulin said, you
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  Speaker 1: get some of the that go I'm great. He's just
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  Speaker 1: I can do better. I can swim fast. If Lippole
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  Speaker 1: continues to swimming faster, he could realize his big dreams.
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  Speaker 1: He said. His top three dream schools are Navy, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: and Northwestern. Fortunately for US we go that's still a
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  Speaker 1: year away. The lucky part is we've got next year,
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  Speaker 1: Enselin said, Owen will move into the lead, Tyler will
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  Speaker 1: be second in command. I were better this year than
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  Speaker 1: we were with Chase and that's hard to say because
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  Speaker 1: Chase was so good. We may not win individual events
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  Speaker 1: next year, but we're getting there in the two hundred
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  Speaker 1: free relay and four hundred free relay