Silver Creek boys swim/dive starts season 3-0

Coach Debbie Stewart must be pleased with Silver Creek boys’ swimming season start. Beginning with a decisive victory at the three school “Sprints Meet” opener (265,171,74) over Brighton and Longmont, the combined boys swim team notched three wins to begin the season with a 3-0 record. At the Sprints Meet, the 50m Freestyle went to Brighton’s Trey Wilson (23.34) before Silver Creek claimed the next eight places. Three hundredths of a second separated Wilson from Creek’s Stephen Codevilla in 2nd, followed by Brayden Stalcup, Sean Wyatt, Lincoln Miller, Brighton Langenegger, Rider Neeb, Justin Gawrych and Evan Welding. Welding then picked up a 2nd place in the 100 Freestyle as Brighton’s Wilson continued his roll.

Traveling to Loveland, Mountain View’s Tyler Tolerico took 1st in diving with a score of 279.83 but Silver Creek’s Joshua Dowlin (231.67), Levi Walker (211.35) and Oliver Fischaber (147.02) took 2nd through 4th place respectively. In the 50 Free, Mountain View’s JJ Phillips took 1st with a time of 23.06 as Creek took 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th through 10th and 12th places led by 2nd place Lincoln Miller’s 24.30 and 3rd place Neill Marble’s 25.79. Phillips (51.09) took 1st in the 100 Free as well with Creek’s Codevilla (51.12) and Wyatt (51.14) taking 2nd and 3rd and Henry Milam (52.73) and Braden Saunders (1:00.35) grabbing 4th and 7th.

Silver Creek kept rolling against Mountain View, taking 4 of the first five spots in the 100 Fly. Evan Welding took 1st (54.54), followed by Chayakorn Ngampatipatpong’s 2nd (1:00.59), Nicolas Trochman’s 4th (1;14.40), and Derrick Abraham’s 5th (1:17.70). Sean Wyatt took 1st in 100 Backstroke (59.69) followed by Gawrych (1:00.38), Neeb (1:01.22), and Milam (1:01.28) at 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Creek’s Markkus Tong (1:03.12) took 1st in the 100 Breaststroke as Creek claimed the first four spots; Dowlin (1:04.43) 2nd, Miller (1:11.30) 3rd, and Daniel Tong (1:16.31) 4th.

Never looking back, Codevilla, Gawrych, Stalcup and Jack Fischman would go on to take the top four spots in the 200 Free. Markkus Tong, Ngampatipatpong, Welding and Neeb took places one through four in the 200 Individual Medley. Fischman, Stalcup, Shobhit Joshi and Hunter Humphrey took 1st through 4th in the 500 Free and Creek won the 200 Free Relay, 200 Medley Relay and 400 Free Relay.

Facing Monarch at home, Silver Creek took their 2nd meet of the season by the score of 176-136. Dowlin again took 1st in diving with a score of 245.8 as Walker, Neeb and Fischaber nabbed 2nd, 4th and 5th places. Monarch’s Luke Corson (22.78) bested Creek’s Hudson Kammerer and took 2nd in the 50 Free (22.80), with Wyatt (23.89), Langenegger (24.00), and Milam (24.05) taking 3rd through 5th. Codevilla (50.93) and Stalcup (52.59) went one-two in the 100 Free, as Gawrych (52.88) took 4th and Adam Cirne (1:01.68) picked up 11th. Welding again claimed 1st in the 100 Fly (54.16). Wyatt (58.11), and Tong (101.26) took 2nd and 3rd in the 100 Backstroke. Kammerer (1:04.70) took 1st in the 100 Breast. Codevilla (2:10.07) and Gawrych (2:15.08) went one-two in the 200 IM. Miller (95:34.02) grabbed 1st place in the 500 Free and Creek took 1st in the 200 Medley Relay.

Finally, just before spring break Creek bested Broomfield 199-109 with Dowlin, Walker, Neeb and Fischaber grabbing 1st through 4th in diving, Welding taking 1st in the 50 Free, Ngampatipatpong taking 1st in the 100 Free (54.15) and 100 Breast (1:05.56) and Codevilla taking 1st in the 100 Fly (57.82).

Next, Silver Creek goes up against Fort Collins’ Liberty Common School on March 30. Coach Debbie Stewart said she’s “hoping everyone returns healthy and rested up (after break), ready to hit the second half of the season stronger than the first-and the first half looked pretty solid with 15 guys making state cuts in multiple events.”