Wisconsin HS Girls D1 State: Middleton Cruise, Bennin Breast Record

WIAA D1 Girls Championships

• Results
• Saturday November 10th
• University of Wisconsin Natatorium
• D2 Recap from Friday

Division 1 is the large schools championship.

Team Scores

1. Middleton 249.5
2. Cedarburg 188
3. Sun Prairie 170
4. Verona Area/Mt Horeb 169
5. Brookfield East 150

Middleton scored 249.5 points to win their 3rd straight Division 1 (large schools) Wisconsin high school girls state title Saturday afternoon. Middleton overcame a small psych sheet deficit to Cedarburg to win by 61.5 over Cedarburg’s 188 points. This was expected after last year when Middleton also overcame a small deficit to win by 69.5. Outside of Cedarburg, the top of the meet was dominated by Madison suburbs. Sun Prairie were 3rd with 170, and Verona/Mt Horeb were a close 4th with 169.

Event Highlights

The headline swim of the night came from Mount Horeb senior Grace Bennin, a Minnesota commit,who went a 1:00.65 to break the D1 state record. The old record of 1:01.72 was set in 2011 by Sami Pochowski of Cedarburg. Bennin also won the 200 IM (1:59.93) by 2+ seconds over Bay Port junior Emma Lasecki (2:02.10).

The most exciting individual events were the pair of showdowns in the 100 back and 100 fly between Brookfield East sophomore Reilly Tiltmann and Madison West senior Katrina Marty, an Arizona State commit.

In the 100 fly, they entered as the top two seeds. Tiltmann (54.56) won the event over Marty (54.62) by .06. Defending champion Gabriela Pierobon Mays of Middleton was 4th.

In the 100 back Marty, the defending state champion, was seeded 4th, exactly 1 second behind top seed Tiltmann. Tiltmann again prevailed in a close race, winning by .14 with a 54.62 to Marty’s 2nd place 54.76.

The other double winner on the night was Sun Prairie sophomore Sophie Fiske who swept the 50 and 100 free (23.20, 50.35). However, despite the double wins, the highlight of Fiske’s night came on the final relay. In that event she dove in 3rd behind Cedarburg and Brookfield East. Her first 50 of 23.28 was enough to catch both teams, but she led Cedarburg anchor Maya Novack by only .01. She pulled away on the last 50 and finished with a field best split of 49.36. The relay win moved her team into 3rd place in the team standings by a single point over Verona/Mt Horeb.

Middleton’s team win was spearheaded by Hannah Aegerter who scored 37 individual points by winning the 500 free (4:55.48) and taking 2nd in the 200 free (1:52.36) behind Menomonee Falls/Hamilton junior Cassie Stegner (1:49.21). Middleton also got 32 points from sophomore Ally Silvestri (4th 200 IM, 2nd 100 breast), and 30 from senior Makenna Licking (5th 200 free, 3rd 500 free). They scored points in every event except diving and the 400 free relay (they DQ’d their 400 free relay at sectionals so they didn’t qualify).

Other winners

• Neenah junior Av Osero defended her the diving title, winning with a score of 515.20.
• Verona/Mount Horeb won the 200 medley (1:43.34) over 2nd place Middleton (1:44.08)
• Middleon won the 200 free relay (1:34.24) over Verona/Mount Horeb (1:35.61)

Middleton gained the most points vs the psych sheet with 58 gained. Next best was Germantown who gained 32 and jumped from 17th place on the psych sheet to 13th.

Cedarburg scored the most points in any individual event with 37 in the 100 breast (they went 3-7-9). Middleton had the 3 of the next 5 highest scoring events with 36 in the 500 free (1-3), 31 in the 200 free (2-5), and 31 in the 200 IM (4-6-14). Also with big events were Waukesha South/Mukwonago with 36 in the 200 free (6-7-10-13), Cedarburg with 33 in the 50 free (2-3), and Arrowhead with 31 in the 500 free (4-5-15). The complete team event scores are in the event scores table below.

Looking Ahead

Middleton’s run atop the division may be in danger next year. They return only 49 individual points, 7th most in the division. They do return 6 swimmers who qualified for an individual event at this meet, 1 behind Sun Prairie’s division leading 7.

Waukesha South/Mukwonago return the most individual points with 81. Next are Brookfield East with 75, Sun Prairie with 67, Cedarburg with 64, Arrowhead with 63, and Menomonee Falls/Hamilton with 51.

Team Scores

Individual Scores

Event Scores

How much each team scored in each event

Score Progression

What the score was after each event