Koehn, Holbrook earn top-five finishes for Tigers

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

STEVENS POINT — Sophie Koehn and Elizabeth Holbrook had a pair of top-five finishes as Marshfield took fifth place at the 2016 Wisconsin Valley Conference Girls Swim Meet on Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Koehn was third in the 100-yard backstroke in 1:03.76 and fifth in the 200 freestyle in 2:06.19, and Holbrook took fourth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:10.95 and fifth in the 200 individual medley in 2:20.94 for Marshfield’s top finishes.

Stevens Point won the meet title and overall conference championship in combination with the dual meet season. Marshfield finished fifth in the overall standings as well.

Koehn, Holbrook, Valerie Kushnir, and Megan Donahue were sixth in the 200 medley relay (2:00.35), and Koehn, Holbrook, Erika Roeglin, and Donahue were seventh in the 200 freestyle relay (1:50.04) for Marshfield’s other top-10 finishes.

Marshfield will compete at the WIAA Division 1 sectional on Nov. 5 at Hudson.

(Hub City Times Sports Reporter Paul Lecker is also the publisher of MarshfieldAreaSports.com.)

2016 Wisconsin Valley Conference Girls Swim Meet

Oct. 27, at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Team scores: 1. Stevens Point 544; 2. D.C. Everest 515.5; 3. Wausau East 343; 4. Wisconsin Rapids 307.5; 5. Marshfield 182; 6. Wausau West 132; 7. Merrill 122.

Winners and Marshfield finishers

200 medley relay: 1. Stevens Point (Anna Vandehey, Kennedy Gilbertson, Casey Summers, Julia Stupar) 1:51.04; 6. Marshfield (Sophie Koehn, Elizabeth Holbrook, Valerie Kushnir, Megan Donahue) 2:00.35; 13. Marshfield (Malina Barker, April Read, Ana Paape, Erika Roeglin) 2:11.96; 17. Marshfield (Morgan Nordbeck, Grace Hilbelink, Ariel Fernandez, Elizabeth Lecker) 2:19.87.

200 freestyle: 1. Alex Raczek (SP) 1:59.71; 5. Koehn (MAR) 2:06.19; 18. Hilbelink (MAR) 2:26.41; 21. Elise Ashby (MAR) 2:37.18.

200 IM: 1. Jordan Tatro (DC) 2:12.50; 5. Holbrook (MAR) 2:20.94; 14. Kushnir (MAR) 2:38.33; 18. Fernandez (MAR) 2:50.43.

50 freestyle: 1. Grace Hartman (WR) 25.11; 13. Donahue (MAR) 28.01; 19. Paape (MAR) 30.46; 21. Cassidy Kolstad (MAR) 33.78.

100 butterfly: 1. Tatro (DC) 57.84; 12. Kushnir (MAR) 1:08.69; 15. Read (MAR) 1:13.65; 18. Fernandez (MAR) 1:15.77.

100 freestyle: 1. Stupar (SP) 53.76; 12. Roeglin (MAR) 1:03.64; 18. Nordbeck (MAR) 1:06.84; 20. Maggie Stangl (MAR) 1:09.28.

500 freestyle: 1. Raczek (SP) 5:23.69; 16. Madi Hall (MAR) 6:30.55.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Wausau East (Rayann Rehwinkel, Ally Kane, Maddie Glaser, Sydney Richetto) 1:43.17; 7. Marshfield (Koehn, Holbrook, Roeglin, Donahue) 1:50.04; 17. Marshfield (Riya Bolander, Barker, Lecker, Kaycee Irwin) 2:08.26; 19. Marshfield (McKenzie Wilsmann, Mary Ann Stangl, Mag. Stangl, Kate Konrardy) 2:22.47.

100 backstroke: 1. Vandehey (SP) 1:00.09; 3. Koehn (MAR) 1:03.76; 10. Donahue (MAR) 1:09.23; 14. Barker (MAR) 1:11.89.

100 breaststroke: 1. Hartman (WR) 1:07.29; 4. Holbrook (MAR) 1:10.95; 14. Paape (MAR) 1:22.07; 17. Hilbelink (MAR) 1:26.76.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Abbey Rosenthal, Raczek, Sophie Emerson, Stupar) 3:41.63; 13. Marshfield (Ashby, Bolander, Read, Roeglin) 4:34.72; 16. Marshfield (Wilsmann, Mag. Stangl, Kolstad, M.A. Stangl) 4:58.51; 18. Marshfield (Gracia Sandok, Irwin, Hall, Hannah Berg) 5:38.46.