2025 Minnesota Boys’ True Workforce Class A State Championship
- January 18, 2025
- Jean Ok. Freeman Aquatic Heart — Minneapolis, MN
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Full Outcomes
Final March, the Breck-Blake Boys Swimming and Diving crew solidified itself as one of many strongest packages in Minnesota highschool historical past by profitable a historic eighth-straight State Championship, breaking the report for many consecutive titles in state historical past. The crew set itself up for an additional championship bid on Jan. 18, profitable the Class A 2025 Minnesota True Workforce State Championship and confirming the crew’s energy even in a distinct championship meet format.
True Workforce competitions place worth on each swimmer in every occasion. First place is price as many factors because the variety of doable entries. Relay factors are nonetheless price double, and in Minnesota, every faculty enters 4 swimmers and 4 relay groups per occasion. In Minnesota, meets are held on the part degree, the six part winners earn automated berths to the state championships, and 6 groups earn “wild card” bids to deliver the sector to 12 packages.
Breck-Blake earned 2028 factors for the win, outscoring St. Thomas Academy by 100.5 factors. Senior Henry Webb led the complete crew effort, swimming three meet information. Webb kicked his record-setting time without work within the 200 freestyle, clocking a meet report of 1:38.26. This swim introduced the meet report beneath 1:40 for the primary time as Webb bested Jack Herczeg’s five-year-old mark of 1:40.61.
Webb, a Yale commit, then smashed the meet report within the 500 freestyle, swimming a season-best 4:31.56 that broke Nico Losinski’s meet report from 2022 by virtually ten seconds. He jumped out to the lead from the beginning and didn’t look again, profitable the race by 17.54 seconds. Lastly, Webb flexed his freestyle vary by knocking off the 100 freestyle meet report whereas main off Breck-Blake’s ‘A’ 400 freestyle relay. Webb swam 44.91, which helped energy the relay squad of Webb, Ryan Lee, Nate Like, and Teddy Frerichs to the win in 3:16.66 and ensure the general crew title.
Webb was Breck-Blake’s solely particular person occasion winner of the day, however the construction of the championship values depth over top-end velocity. Breck-Blake constantly turned in sturdy finishes from all 4 swimmers in every occasion. For instance, within the 200 IM, which Winona & Cotter senior Alessandro Paladini received, Breck-Blake earned third, seventh, 14th, and 18th. The crew was even stronger within the 100 fly and 500 freestyle. Within the former, they completed 2nd, third, seventh, and sixteenth behind Northfield senior Josh Kraby (51.25). Then, the crew touched 1st, 4th, tenth, and thirteenth within the 500 freestyle.
The runners-up, St. Thomas Academy, flexed its depth as effectively. Not solely did junior Luke Mechtel earn particular person occasion wins within the 50 freestyle (21.03) and 100 breaststroke (56.99)—and swim a lifetime finest within the former—however St. Thomas received the 200 medley and 200 freestyle relays.
Sherman Holmstadt, Mechtel, Dane Dow, and Kayden Greeley swam away from the sector to win the 200 medley relay by 2.24 seconds in 1:34.99. Later, Mechtel, Greeley, William Nash, and Leo Ritzenthaler received the 200 freestyle relay in a equally decisive vogue, clocking 1:27.97 to win by 1.59 seconds.
The opposite particular person occasion winners on the meet have been senior Dani Maury (100 free, 48.45), senior Alex Wilwerding (100 again, 55.03), and sophomore Gideon Fish (1-meter diving, 500.5).
Remaining Outcomes
- Breck-Blake — 2028
- Saint Thomas Academy — 1927.5
- Northfield — 1911.5
- Grand Rapids — 1645
- Orono — 1548
- Benilde-St Magaret’s — 1378.5
- Delano-Watertown-Mayer — 1302
- Alexandria — 1292.5
- Melrose-Sauk Centre — 1288
- Winona & Cotter — 1254
- Monticello — 1049
- Mankato West — 788