2025 Minnesota True Staff Class AA State Championships
- January 18, 2025
- Jean Ok. Freeman Aquatic Heart — Minneapolis, MN
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Full Outcomes
The Minnetonka boys stomped to the win workforce title on the 2025 Minnesota True Staff Class AA State Championships, scoring 2411 factors to beat runners-up Wayzata by 333.5. That is the college’s second true workforce state title of the educational 12 months, because the Minnetonka ladies received their Class AA championship in October.
True Staff competitions place worth on each swimmer in every occasion by making first place value as many factors because the variety of potential entries and scoring from first by way of the ultimate swimmer. Relay factors are value double, and in Minnesota, every college enters 4 swimmers and 4 relay groups per occasion. The MSHSCA buildings the true workforce championships in order that meets are first held on the part degree. The six part winners every earn automated berths to the state championships, and 6 groups qualify as “wild playing cards” to deliver the sector to 12 packages.
The True Staff format is all about depth, and Minnetonka had that in spade, logging spectacular finishes within the dash freestyle occasions particularly. The workforce went 1-4-6-15 within the 50 freestyle, 1-2-4-10 within the 100, and 1-3-5-7 within the 200. That effort was largely led by senior Evan Witte, who received the 50 and 100 freestyle in meet file occasions. Witte, a Pitt commit, popped a 20.43 within the 50 freestyle, chopping a tenth off the meet file that had stood since 2019. After the diving break, Witte led a Minnetonka 1-2 end with a 44.72, getting underneath Griffin Again’s nine-year-old mark of 45.81 by 1.09 seconds.
Junior Ben Jabs received the 200 freestyle in 1:43.03, securing Minnetonka’s sweep of the 50/100/200 freestyle. Later, Jabs completed second within the 100 freestyle behind Witte (46.48). The 2 helped Minnetonka flex its dash freestyle power within the 200 and 400 freestyle relays. Minnetonka received each freestyle relays, as Daniel Shelstad, Witte, Jabs, and William Finucane-Tuccio broke the 200 freestyle relay meet file with a 1:23.45.
Chanhassen-Chaska’s Isidore Warain matched Witte by profitable his two particular person occasions in meet file occasions. The senior kicked off his particular person occasion slate by swimming 1:51.16 for a 200 IM meet file, erasing one other of Again’s requirements. Then, he got here from behind on the midway level of the 100 breaststroke to out-touch Waconia’s Jack Heckler. Warain and Heckler had been each underneath the previous meet file of 55.59, however Warain received his arms on the wall in a 54.76 to Hackler’s 54.82, so Warain earned the win and his identify within the file ebook.
The runners-up Wayzata had been powered by a powerful effort from junior Nathan Carr, who additionally received two particular person occasions and broke a meet file. His record-setting effort got here within the 100 fly, an occasion that was a powerful level for the workforce because it went 1-3-4-5 and picked up 183 factors. Carr spearheaded the Wayzata’s dominance with a 48.49, slicing nine-tenths off the meet file. Later, he added a first-place end within the 100 backstroke, swimming 49.96. He was the one swimmer sub-51 seconds in that occasion.
Prior Lake managed the remainder of the occasions, together with the meet-opening 200 medley relay. There, Ethan Kosin, Owen Beaudette, Griffin Leining, and Jamey Solt beat Wayzata’s ‘A’ relay by two-hundredths for the win (1:33.18). Kosin, a senior dedicated to Minnesota, confirmed off his versatility by profitable the five hundred freestyle in a lifetime better of 4:31.76. Lastly, senior Maddox Mork earned prime marks on the 1-meter for Prior Lake, scoring 515.75 factors.
Remaining Outcomes:
- Minnetonka — 2411
- Wayzata — 2077.5
- Edina — 2054
- Chanhassen-Chaska — 1465
- Woodbury — 1421.5
- East Ridge — 1312.5
- Prior Lake — 1267.5
- Duluth East — 1247
- Eagan — 1235
- Lakeville North — 1082
- Waconia — 1051
- Centennial — 715
