The Oskaloosa Indian Boys Swim Team

Front row Left to right: Wyatt Teeter, Kamron VanHulzen, Tiki Anderson, Adam Durech, and Ben Boston
Back row Left to right: Ean Beenken, Jack Miller, John Hammes, Connor Swim, Sam Carmichael, and Colton Berg
Not Pictured : Coach Laura Brummell and Managers Andie Reif and Marina Llanas Rojas.

The Oskaloosa Indian Boys Swim Team is off and swimming in their first year as a boys swim team. They have 11 swimmers with 5 of them being seniors and 6 of them being sophomores and freshman. They have been having a lot of personal best times this year and are continuing to work hard to take more time off in the future. In swimming there is only 1 class for everyone and with mainly the bigger schools having swim teams it definitely makes Oskaloosa one of the smallest teams in the state so the boys have to work extra hard to compete. Their first 2 meets of the year the team traveled to Newton to swim against the teams of Newton/Pella, Indianola/Knoxville, Decorah, Grinnell, Vinton-Shellsburg, Atlantic, and Boone and came away with several personal bests. The times below were the personal bests for these 2 meets listed in the order of how the events take place.

The 200 Free Relay was swam by Jack Miller, Connor Swim, Ean Beenken and Ben Boston in a time of 1:52.04
The 200 Free time was John Hammes with a 2:27.02,
The 200 Individual Medley time was Jack Miller with a 2:26.52,
The 50 Free times were Jack Miller 25.63, Connor Swim 26.52, Ean Beenken 28.60, Ben Boston 30.67, and Adam Durech 31.74.
The 100 Free times were Connor Swim 1:00.53, Ean Beenken, 1:06.17, Ben Boston 1:11.89 and Colton Berg 1:21.37.
The 200 Medley Relay was swam by Jack Miller, Kamron VanHulzen, Connor Swim, and Ean Beenken with a time of 2:04.11
The 100 Back time was Jack Miller with a 1:04.83, John Hammes 1:12.88, Sam Carmichael 1:48.59
The 100 Breast time was Kamron VanHulzen 1:25.76, Adam Durech 1:39.70

Last Saturday the team traveled to Grinnell College to take on Lin-Mar, Ottumwa, Waterloo West, Indianola/Knoxville, Vinton Shellsburg, and Grinnell.

The 200 Free Relay was swam by Jack Miller, Connor Swim, Ean Beenken and John Hammes in a time of 1:50.04
The 200 Individual Medley time was Jack Miller with a 2:29.51.
The 50 Free times were Connor Swim 26.94, Ean Beenken 29.02, Colton Berg 32.36, Ben Boston 33.00, Wyatt Teeter34.98 and Sam Carmichael with a 36.88
The 100 Free times were Connor Swim 59.53, John Hammes 1:03.60, Ean Beenken, 1:04.87, Ben Boston 1:15.19 and Colton Berg 1:21.37.
The 200 Medley Relay was swam by John Hammes, Jack Miller, Connor Swim, and Ean Beenken with a time of 2:09.58
The 100 Back time was Jack Miller with a 1:06.17, John Hammes 1:12.18,
The 100 Breast time was Adam Durech 1:37.75

This week the boys travel to Marshalltown on Thursday and to Iowa City on Saturday to take on last year’s state champs to finish the meets for the month of December. The rest of their meets are the following:
January 5th back at Marshalltown
January 10th at Johnston
January 13 at Grinnell College
January 22 at Ottumwa
February 7th Sectionals at Johnston