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BNSC wins 5th straight title at swim conference

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buy this photo Shaun Wolfe of Bloomington Parks Swim Club raced his way to a new record in the boys' 15-18 50 M breast stroke at the Twin City Swim Conference, Sunday, July 26, 2009 at Normal Community High School. Wolfe swam a 27.05. (The Pantagraph, David Proeber)

NORMAL -- Different name but same results for the Bloomington Normal Swim Club (BNSC), who won their fifth straight title at the Lifeguard Store Twin Cities Swim Conference at Normal Community High School Sunday.

"Like a lot of other teams we train year round," said BNSC coach Rob Knight, whose team was formerly known as Swim America. "I don't think we had any false starts and only one disqualification, it's those teams with the fewest errors that finish well."

BNSC won 2,053.5 points en route to their title, followed by Normal Parks (2,027), the Marlins (1,983), General Electric (1,266), 4-Seasons (1,200), Crestwicke (1,064), Lakeside (1,052.5) and Bloomington Parks (621).

Despite a last-place showing, Bloomington Parks boasted the conference's best individual swimmer in Shaun Wolfe, who broke three of the 12 conference records that fell Sunday.

Wolfe, who will be a junior at BHS in the fall, began by shaving his own record time of 21.59 to 21.37 in the Boys 15-18 50 freestyle, then broke Jeremy Evans' 11-year-old record of 27.44 in the Boys 15-18 50 Breaststroke by posting 27.05. Wolfe then beat the record set by his older brother Justin last year in the Boys 15-18 100 individual medley (IM), winning the race in 53 seconds flat.

"I did pretty well in the sprint 50s, they're what I do, but I didn't think I'd go as fast as I did," Wolfe said. "I just tried to go as fast as I can €¦ I don't care about records as much as doing my personal best."

The Normal Parks Sharks broke six records, leading all teams Sunday: the Girls 13-14 200 medley relay team of Marissa Thomas, Alexandra Marable, and Jennifer and Ashlee Toca beat the record time of 1:59.94 posted by 4-Seasons in 1987 by finishing in 1:57.74; the same team came back to win Girls 13-14 freestyle relay in record fashion by posting 1:44.84, nearly two seconds better than the previous record time of 1:46.21 posted by Normal Parks in 1981. J.D. Kelley posted a record time of 16.06 in the Boys 7-8 25 butterfly, besting the 16.27 record posted by Crestwicke's Jonathan Rush in 1985, and Grant Fuhr won the Boys 9-10 25 Butterfly in a record 14.20 seconds.

Shark Brianna Hines broke two individual records Sunday by swimming the Girls 11-12 100 IM in 1:03.45, breaking Jamie Engan's time of 1:03.92 posted in 2000, and breaking Emily Hanson's 2000 record time of 33.62 in the Girls 11-12 50 breaststroke with 31.66.

"I was really excited and shocked, 31 (seconds) has been my goal all season, and when I hit the pool I just wanted to go fast as I could," she said.

Other record breakers included the Marlins Boys 13-14 relay team of Tyler Dedianous, Lance Bergmann, Justin Dedianous and Erik Pinter who won the 200 medley in 1:46.66 and the 200 freestyle in 1:35.4, and Lakeside's Gabi Shanahan who won the Girls 9-10 25 freestyle in 13.09.

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