Everest ends City Meet drought

WAUSAU - The D.C. Everest girls swim team achieved a goal Tuesday which the program has chased for more than three decades.

The Evergreens won the City Meet title for the first time since 1984 and just the fourth time overall in the 43 years of the event. Members of the Evergreens hoisted the trophy and posed for team photos with it on the deck of the Horace Mann Middle School pool after the final results were announced.

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"We have been working on team goals and  tonight we achieved this one," said sophomore Jordan Tatro, who won the 200-yard IM and 100 butterfly and also was part of the winning 400 free relay team. "This is a good confidence boost for the team and a good way to continue our season."

East finished second with 118 points and had its run of 14 straight victories in the City Meet come to an end. Wausau West finished third.

Lumberjacks seniors Sydney Richetto and Maddie Gassler both won two individual events and were part of a pair of winning relay teams.

East has dominated the City Meet, with 28 titles since the event began in 1972. Every record for the event is held by a Lumberjacks swimmer as well, with all 11 marks set over the past decade.

"(Everest) is deep. They have talent from top to bottom and they swam well today," East coach Derek Steinke said. "Our girls fought hard, we didn't give them anything. They had to earn everything they got and they did.

"The trophy sat on deck this week (during East practices) and we had a conversation about the last time we lost it. Some of our girls were only 4 ... so it's been awhile," Steinke said. "We fought hard but just didn't have enough horses at the end of the meet to make it a go. (Everest) had a nice lineup and our girls won what they could win. Fourteen years is a long time to hold onto (the trophy) and one of the hardest things was to let go of it. The (team) was a little fired up at the end and that's good to see."

Everest hosts East in a Wisconsin Valley Conference dual meet Thursday. The Lumberjacks and Evergreens combined to win all 11 events in the City Meet with East finishing first in six. East edged Everest by three points in the City Meet last year.

"I told the girls going into the meet that it was going to be really close and it was going to come down to who wanted it more," Everest coach Melissa Springer said. "We have to go against (East) again Thursday, so the fight is not over yet."

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Team scores: D.C. Everest 135, Wausau East 118, Wausau West 54

200 medley relay: 1. Wausau East (Hailey Bunkleman, Maddie Glaser, Ally Kane, Sydney Richetto), 1:54.41. 2. DCE, 1:55.44; 3. DCE 2:03.28. 200 free: 1. Sydney Richetto, WE, 2:04.28; 2. Rylie Westfall, DCE, 2:07.98; 3. Emma Van Ermen, DCE, 2:09.98. 200 IM: 1. Jordan Tatro, DCE, 2:20. 02; 2. Madalyn Peterson, DCE, 2:23.47; 3. Ally Kane, WE, 2:23.64. 50 free: 1. Rayann Rehwinkel, WE, 26.30; 2. Riyah Rudeen, DCE, 26.83; 3. Maddie Glaser, WE, 26.90. 100 butterfly: 1. Jordan Tatro, DCE, 1:00.49; 2. Maddy Rodemeier, WE, 1:06.38; 3. Julia Bartram, WW, 1:06.69. 100 free: 1. Sydney Richetto, WE, 56.05; 2. Rylie Westfall, DCE, 58.07; 3. Rayann Rehwinkel, WE, 58.33. 500 free: 1. Sydney Schwantes, DCE, 5:48.07; 2. Emma Van Ermen, DCE, 5:52.80; 3. Clara Merkel, WE, 6:06.37. 200 free relay: 1. Wausau East (Ally Kane, Maddie Glaser, Rayann Rehwinkel, Sydney Richetto), 1:44.88; 2. DCE, 1:46.42; 3. DCE, 1:48.89. 100 back: 1. Madalyn Peterson, DCE, 1:03.87; 2. Ally Kane, WE, 1:07.51; 3. Hailey Bunkleman, WE, 1:07.74. 100 breast: 1. Maddie Glaser, WE, 1:09.58; 2. Hannah Senanayake, WW, 1:13.14; 3. Megan Halambeck, DCE, 1:16.14. 400 free relay: 1. DCE (Jordan Tatro, Beleni mandli, Riyah Rudeen, Rylie Westfall), 3:53.70; 2. DCE, 3:59.62; 3. Wausau East, 4:04.90