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Otter Swimmers and Divers Defeat Willmar in CLC Dual Meet

By Craig Olson, 01/05/23, 9:30PM CST

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Fergus Falls traveled to Willmar for a Central Lakes Conference Swimming and Diving Meet and the Otter boys returned home with a 113-71 dual win.  “We won 9-of-12 events tonight and had 12 personal best times,” reported Head Coach Randy Hansen.  “Swimming is one of those sports where you can mark your success by the clock, but there also is a team score kept.  We have had a lot of success with individuals swimming great times but have not had too many dual meet victories lately, especially in the tough CLC.  It was really nice to get the win today and that is a testament to the hard work the boys have put in.”

The 200 Freestyle and 400 Freestyle relays swam their best times of the year and the Medley relay was not far off.  

Matthew Tuel had a terrific night going under 2 minutes in the 200 Free and dropping close to 8 seconds in his 500.  Landon Votava also had 2 best times in those same events.  Jaden Kwapinski had a nice drop in the 200 IM as did Reece Hansen in the 100 Backstroke. 

Saturday the Otters travel to West Fargo for the Border Battle Invitational.  

Here are the individual times for the Otters by event:
200 Medley Relay
1. 1:52.11 (Tyler Kubela, Micah Zosel, Logan Rott, Christian Reed), 3. 2:00.56 (Reece Hansen, William Ness-Ludwig, Landon Votava, Ethan Strande)

200 Freestyle
1. Matthew Tuel 1:58.82, 2. Landon Votava 2:07.02, 4. Christian Reed 2:07.57

200 IM
2. JadenKwapinski 2:17.57, 3. Logan Rott 2:21.85, 5. William Ness-Ludwig 2:35.76

50 Freestyle
1. Tyler Kubela 24.89, 3. Adrian Blondeau 25.45, 5. Reece Hansen 26.38

Diving
3. William Nuss 124.50, 4. Parker Carlson 120.15

100 Butterfly
2. Jaden Kwapinski 1:03.41, 3. Logan Rott 1:05.47

100 Freestyle
1. Micah Zosel 54.57, 3. Adrian Blondeau 59.02, 4. Ethan Strande 1:00.52

500 Freestyle
1. Matthew Tuel 5:21.78, 2. Landon Votava 5:47.39

200 Freestyle Relay
1. 1:39.21 (Jaden Kwapinski, Adrian Blondeau, Christian Reed, Tyler Kubela), 3. 1:49.50 (William Ness-Ludwig, Ethan Strande, William Nuss, Matthew Tuel)

100 Backstroke
1. Reece Hansen 1:03.37, 3. Christian Reed 1:06.91

100 Breaststroke
1. Micah Zosel 1:10.51, 3. Ethan Strande 1:14.76, 4. William Ness-Ludwig 1:19.44

400 Freestyle Relay
1. 3:43.57 (Logan Rott, Jaden Kwapinski, Matthew Tuel, Micah Zosel), 3. 3:56.97 (Tyler Kubela, Reece Hansen, Landon Votava, Adrian Blondeau)