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Ankeny swimmers beat S.E. Polk to even their records, will face Linn-Mar next

January 13, 2023 by Dan Holm

Ankeny’s Finn Stukerjurgen dives into the pool at the start of the 200 freestyle during Thursday’s dual meet at Southeast Polk. He won the event in a time of 1:54.62 to help the Hawks to a 132-38 victory. (Photo courtesy of Jim Howard)

It’s been a good week thus far for the Ankeny boys’ swimming team.

After rolling to a non-conference win over visiting Indianola on Tuesday, the fourth-ranked Hawks traveled to Southeast Polk on Thursday and dominated a CIML Conference dual meet.

Ankeny won all 11 events and romped to a 132-38 victory over the No. 18 Rams. The Hawks evened their records at 2-2-1 in the league and 3-3-1 overall heading into Saturday’s non-conference dual at No. 5 Linn-Mar (Marion).

“With this being the second meet of the week, I thought we swam extremely well,” said Ankeny coach Justin Crouch. “There were a lot of season bests and a few personal bests. Southeast Polk ran an extremely awesome meet. The kids were really enthusiastic and generally excited and motivated to swim well. I hope we have a little left in the tank for the meet versus Linn-Mar on Saturday.”

Ankeny’s Tate Brownsberger swims the breaststroke leg of the 200 medley relay during Thursday’s meet. He helped the Hawks’ ‘B’ relay to a second-place finish in the event. (Photo courtesy of Jim Howard)

Ankeny opened the meet by winning the 200 medley relay in a time of 1:42.77. That team consisted of Andrew Law, Nicholas Robie, Calvin Howard and Lance Swanepoel.

After Finn Stukerjurgen won the 200 freestyle in a time of 1:54.62, Owen Schwebach took the 200 individual medley in 2:03.12. Owen Evans followed with another win in the 50 freestyle in 23.41 seconds, then Brock Peterson captured the 100 butterfly in 53.94.

Swanepoel raced to a victory in the 100 freestyle, posting a time of 49.71 seconds. He later won the 100 backstroke in 55.33.

Ankeny’s Lance Swanepoel swims to a victory in the 100 freestyle during Thursday’s meet. He posted a time of 49.71 seconds. (Photo courtesy of Jim Howard)

Noah Schafer took the 500 freestyle in a time of 5:17.38. He then anchored the winning 200 freestyle relay, teaming up with Peterson, Howard and Evans to post a time of 1:33.17.

Schafer and Evans also swam on the winning 400 freestyle relay, teaming up with Schwebach and Swanepoel. Ankeny was clocked in 3:20.69.

Robie had the Hawks’ other individual victory. He won the 100 breaststroke in 1:05.98.

Ankeny coach Justin Crouch (right) gets his team ready for the start of Thursday’s meet. (Photo courtesy of Jim Howard)

Ankeny will now gear up to face Linn-Mar, a team that placed fourth in last year’s state meet.

“Three meets in five days is a lot to ask,” Crouch said. “I think we can give Linn-Mar a meet, but with the travel and the heavy schedule this week it is going to be a tall task. They have a great facility, and it will be great practice for travelling over for the state meet in four weeks.”

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