The boys swimming season of 2023-24 was a record-breaker. Is there more on the horizon for 2024-25? It appears you can count on it. Breck/Blake, a cooperative of two Twin Cities private schools, cruised to a record-setting eighth consecutive team championship in the Class 1A meet in March at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center. […]
The boys swimming season of 2023-24 was a record-breaker.
Is there more on the horizon for 2024-25? It appears you can count on it.
Breck/Blake, a cooperative of two Twin Cities private schools, cruised to a record-setting eighth consecutive team championship in the Class 1A meet in March at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center. It had shared the record with Rochester, which won seven in a row from 1953-59.
“This is a phenomenal accomplishment for our program,” Breck/Blake coach Brian Wright said after the meet. “Our focus isn’t on the end result but the process. The state record kind of crept up on us.”
The team’s top individual this season, senior Henry Webb, won’t sneak up on anybody. He was the medalist in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 37.31 seconds, runner-up in 100 freestyle with a time of 44.82 and swam the lead leg on the victorious 200 medley and 400 freestyle relay teams. Webb is headed to Yale.
Lucas Gerten, now a Rosemount senior, won his third consecutive individual diving state title with a state-record score of 539.60 points. He bettered the mark of 532.70 set by Dan Croaston of Champlin Park in 1997 and equaled by Turner Eckstrom of Red Wing in 2010.
Junior Micah Davis, a member of TCRB (a combined program involving St. Cloud Tech, St. Cloud Cathedral, Rocori and Becker), successfully defended his 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle titles, breaking the state record in the butterfly with a time of 46.94. Chris Morris from the same program held the record of 48.11 set in 2021. Davis also took first place in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:36.74.
