D.C. Everest Girls Swim team wins WVC Meet

The D.C. Everest Girls Swim team won the Wisconsin Valley Conference meet on Thursday, Oct. 29 with a total score of 520 points. The victory gave them 12 meet points in the conference standings which, added to their eight points from dual meet results, put them in a tie with Stevens Point for first place in the WVC overall with 20 points.
Of the 11 events held at the meet, Evergreen athletes won five of them, which helped Everest secure their first WVC meet victory since 2020.
Everest junior Ila Burger won two individual events, the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 2:01.56 and the 500 yard freestyle with a time of 5:24.76. Freshman Kiley Zoromski won the 100 yard breaststroke event with a time of 1:09.06.
Everest also won two relay events at the meet. Burger, freshman Samantha Polley, junior Lexie Meliska and freshman Quinlyn Pagel won the 200 yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:43.25. Then, Polley, Burger, Zoromski and Pagel won the 400 yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:43.98.
Wausau West, who placed third in both the meet and the overall conference standings, also had a successful day at the meet with Warriors winning another four of the events.

West senior Alyssa Leon won two individual events, the 100 yard butterfly with a time of 1:00.27 and the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 1:00.20. Senior Erin Leon won the 200 yard individual medley (IM) with a time of 2:16.29.
The Warriors also were victorious in the 200 yard medley relay, with Alyssa Leon, junior Annika Hill, sophomore Grace Aune and junior Makenna Popelka putting up a winning time of 1:53.33.
D.C. Everest and Wausau West swimming will next compete in sectionals on Saturday, Nov. 7 in Hudson.