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MCDONALD'S SWNEWS4U GAME OF THE WEEK (Summer Swimming): Platteville Tom Caccia Invitational
Platteville Summer Swim Team dominates own season-ending invitational
Swimming
Platteville’s Anna Wunderlin gets ready on the blocks as teammate Rachel Wunderlin (in the water) complete the lead off leg of the Girls 9–10 Medley Relay, while teammate Bella and Rihanna Peters cheer them on at Saturday’s Platteville Tom Caccia Invitational. - photo by Jason Nihles

MCDONALD'S SWNEWS4U.COM GAME OF THE WEEK (July 26–Aug. 2)
PLATTEVILLE TOM CACCIA INVITATIONAL  

By Jason Nihles, The Platteville Journal, Fennimore Times, Boscobel Dial

PLATTEVILLE DOMINATES OWN SEASON-ENDING INVITATIONAL
PLATTEVILLE — The Platteville Summer Swim team closed out its brief 2022 season in grand fashion by dominating the five-team Tom Caccia Invitational Saturday at the Platteville Family Aquatic Center.

The home team used its overall team depth to pile up 2,344 points to win the invite, while the Suger River Rapids (New Glarus) 1,689, finished second, followed by the Beloit Tide 1,584, Bishops Bay (Middleton) 1,330.5 and the Monroe Area Swim Team 1,029.5.

“Our Tom Caccia Invitational was a success as always,” said first-year PSST coach Sierra Jauch. “We had four visiting teams with a total of 149 athletes. Hosting a big meet entails a lot, so I am so thankful for all our volunteers who made things run smoothly. 

“Our athletes did a great job in both their performance and their good sportsmanship to their teammates and our visiting teams. We coaches are so proud of them! It’s amazing to see how much the swimmers improved even in a short six-week season. In the older athletes, one of the biggest improvements I saw was in their competitiveness and aggression, putting everything you have into a race and caring about doing well. In our younger swimmers it was mostly confidence in all areas: flip turns, diving, distance, and being able to swim all the strokes. Seeing both of these at our last meet makes the races especially fun to watch.”

The highlight of the day for Platteville was junior-to-be Titus Wunderlin winning the 15–18-year-old team record in the 100 individual medley record with a time of 1:09.25. Wunderlin’s winning-time broke Dan Iselin’s previous record of 1:09.25.

“I want to congratulate Titus, who is also my brother and an assistant coach, on breaking the 100 IM record,” added Jauch. “That is an accomplishment that is not easy, especially in the 15–18 age group. Throughout the season Titus was pretty close to a couple other records as well. He still has two years of summer swimming and two years of high school, so no doubt he will continue to improve, and perhaps break a couple more records before his swimming career is over.”

Wunderlin also won the Boys 15–18 50 freestyle (25.37) and the 50 butterfly (28.64), finished second in the 100 freestyle (1:00.10), swam a strong closing leg on Platteville’s 15–18 second-place 200 medley relay team (3:01.28) with Will Hollingsworth, Mazin Plumb and T.J. Pink, and swam two legs on the second-place 200 freestyle relay (2:03.08).

Plumb won the Boys 13–14 100 freestyle in 1:41.04 and the 13–15 50 backstroke in 55.52, and finished second in the Boys 13–14 50 breaststroke (47.32) and the 50 freestyle (37.95). 

Platteville 10-year-old Rihanna Peters won four events in the Girls 9–10 age division, the 50 butterfly with a time of 49.74, 100 individual medley (1:49.50), 50 freestyle (1:41.40) and 50 breaststroke (59.68).

Peters also teamed with sister Bella Peters, Rachel Wunderlin and Annabelle Wunderlin to place second in the Girls 9–10 200 medley relay (3:54.04) and the 200 freestyle relay (3:53.04).

Ezra Lyght won the boy’s 100 individual medley (1:13.35). He also teamed with Will Hollingsworth and Ilija Polebitski to win the Boys 13–14 200 freestyle relay (3:30.37).

Last Tuesday, the Platteville swim team traveled to Jefferson for a dual. 

No team scores were kept, but the visiting PSST won 13 events.


Platteville Tom Caccia Invitational
(from Saturday, July 30 @ Platteville
Team Scores — 1.Platteville 2,344, 2.Sugar River (New Glarus) 1,689, 3.Beloit Tide 1,584, 4.Middleton Bishops Bay 1,330.5, 5.Monroe 1,029.5. 
Platteville top-6 finishers
(Girls 8 and under)
100 medley relay — 3.Platteville (Eve Wunderlin, Kenzi Bendorf, Sarah Pulkrabek, Juliet Alcalay) 3:12.55. 25 freestyle — 3.Kenzi Bendorf 22.81. 25 butterfly — 5.Kenzi Bendorf 35.02. 50 freestyle — 3.Pulkrabek 1:27.63. 25 backstroke — 4.K. Bendorf 31.51. 25 breaststroke — 5.Bendorf 36.08. 100 freestyle relay — 3.Platteville (Hadley Bartelme, Pulkrabek, E. Wunderlin, Alcalay) 3:11.72.
(Boys 8 and under)
25 freestyle — 6.Arlo Polebitski 34.69. 25 breaststroke — 5.Polebtski 1:00.84, 6.Jacob Pronschinske 1:19.54.
(Girls 9–10)
200 medley relay — 2.Platteville (Rachel Wunderlin, Annabelle Wunderlin, Rihanna Peters, Bella Peters) 3:54.04. 50 freestyle — 4.Gabriella Bendorf 44.87. 50 butterfly — 1.R. Peters 49.74, 6.Jessa Bartelme 1:18.30. 50 butterfly — 1.R. Peters 49.74, 6.Bartelme 1:18.30. 100 individual medley — 3.G. Bendorf 2:06.42, 4.A. Wunderlin 2:20.87, 5.B. Peters 2:21.20, 6.Bartelme 2:23.84. 100 freestyle — 1.R. Peters 1:41.40, 2.G. Bendorf 1:49.70, 4.B. Peters 2:05.51, 5.Addison Holland 2:45.83, 6.R. Wunderlin 2:47.66. 50 backstroke — 5.B. Peters 1:00.71. 50 breaststroke — 1.R. Peters 59.68, 4.G. Bendorf 1:01.55. 200 freestyle relay — 3.Platteville (R. Wunderlin , G. Bendorf, B. Peters, Bartelme) 3:53.45.
(Boys 9–10)
50 freestyle — 6.Paxton Butcher 1:11.18. 50 backstroke — 4.Butcher 1:19.25. 200 freestyle relay — (Butcher, Arlo Polebitski, Jacob Pronschinske, Butcher) 6:08.52.
(Girls 11–12)
200 medley relay — 3.Platteville (Zoe Xiao, Kinley Bendorf, Lauryn Pennekamp, Pari Patel) 3:42.52. 50 freestyle — 6.Kinley Bendorf 38.75. 50 butterfly — 5.Pennekamp 1:08.47, 6.Allison Hilfer 1:16.12. 100 freestyle — 3.Hilfer 1:23.32. 50 backstroke — 5.Zoe Xiao 57.59, 6.Patel 1:00.94. 200 freestyle relay — 2.Platteville (Patel, Xiao, R. Peters, K. Bendorf) 3:05.33, 3.Platteville (K. Plumb, Jillian Fielder, Hilfer, Pennekamp) 3:53.56.
(Boys 11–12)
50 freestyle  — 5.Ezra Lyght 43.23. 100 individual medley — 1.Lyght 1:13.35. 100 freestyle — 2.Lyght 1:39.63, 3.Ilija Polebitski 1:57.02. 50 backstroke — 4.Polebitski 1:07.65. 50 breaststroke — 4.I. Polebitski 57.71.
(Girls 13–14)
200 medley relay — 3.Platteville (Nicole Peterson, Grace Wruck, Kate Pronschinske, Anna Pennekamp)        3:11.48. 50 freestyle — 2.Pronschinske 33.90, 6.Peterson 41.67. 50 butterfly — 4.Pronschinske 39.61, 5.A. Pennekamp 52.22. 100 individual medley — 3.Pronschinske 1:31.71. 100 freestyle — 2.Pronschinske 1:19.31, 4.Peterson 1:31.50. 50 backstroke — 4.Peterson 48.51, 5.Wruck 54.28. 200 freestyle relay — 2.Platteville (A. Pennekamp, Wruck, Peterson, Pronschinske) 2:39.09. 
(Boys 13–14)
50 freestyle — 2.Mazin Plumb 39.31, 4.Will Hollingsworth 48.09. 100 freestyle — 1.Plumb 1:41.04, 2.W. Hollingsworth 1:49.18. 50 backstroke — 1.Plumb 55.52, 2.W. Hollingsworth 1:00.66. 50 breaststroke — 2.Plumb 51.27, 3.W. Hollingsworth 1:12.38. 200 freestyle relay — 1.Platteville (W. Hollingsworth, Lyght, I. Polebitski) 3:30.37.
(Girls 15–18)
Open 200 freestyle — 2.Caroline Gates 2:44.08, 4.Eva Hollingsworth 2:59.31. 200 medley relay — 3.Platteville (Emilia Bohlken, Hollingsworth, Gates, Mya Kreul) 2:49.84. 50 freestyle — 3.Gates 31.61. 50 butterfly — 2.Kreul  42.53. 100 individual medley — 2.Gates 1:22.87, 3.Kreul 1:38.95, 4.Bohlken 1:51.07. 50 backstroke — 3.Gates 39.16, 5.E. Hollingsworth 45.92. 50 breaststroke — 4.E. Hollingsworth 49.51. 200 freestyle relay — 4.Platteville (Bohlken, Kreul, E. Hollingsworth, Gates) 2:27.55.
(Boys 15–18)
200 medley relay — 2.Platteville (Will Hollingsworth, Mazin Plumb, T.J. Pink, Titus Wunderlin) 3:01.28. 50 freestyle — 1.T. Wunderlin 25.37, 5.Pink 32.37. 50 butterfly — 6.Pink 39.65. 100 individual medley — 1.T. Wunderlin 1:09.25, 5.Pink 1:32.04. 100 freestyle — 2.T. Wunderlin 1:00.10, 6.Pink 1:21.90. 200 freestyle relay — 2.Platteville (T. Wunderlin, Plumb, Pink, T. Wunderlin) 2:03.08.