July, 2010
The following LFHS swimmers just recently
received All-America Status:
Mitch Stoehr - 100, 200 Freestyle
Michael Gannon, Bryan Bunning,
Colin Rowe, Mitch Stoehr - 200 Medley Relay |
Congratulations to the Lake Forest High
School Boys' Swim Team!
They finished 9th in the nation in
the National Dual Meet Team Rankings for the Boys' Public League
1400-1900 for the 2009-2010 season, which is sponsored by The
National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association of America. |
Congratulations
for being selected to the National Interscholastic Swimming
Coaches Association of America Academic All-America Team:
Mitch Stoehr
Michael Gannon
Derek Mohrmann
Ryan Mark |
03/25/10
Mitch Stoehr--Pioneer Press' 13-team All-Lake
Shore Swimmer of the Year! (read
more)
Mitch will compete in June for the Junior National Team in
Barcelona, Spain.
03/14/10
Tribune/WGN-Ch. 9 Athlete of the Month:
Lake Forest swimmer Mitch Stoehr ()
view video on WGN
03/10/10
Last night at the All-State Swimming and Diving banquet, Mitch
Stoehr was awarded Illinois Senior Swimmer of the Year. The
award was quite an exclamation point on Mitch's career at Lake Forest
High School.
02/27/10
Congratulations to Mitch Stoehr, who capped
a spectacular high-school career by winning state titles in
the 100-yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle races on
Saturday at the IHSA boys swimming championships hosted by
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photos by Joel Lerner/Pioneer Press |
02/20/10--Sectional Competition at Lake Forest
The team qualified in 13 of 15 events
and in three events, the Scouts qualified two--for a total of 25
entries for the state meet. Coach Dell described it as "an
incredibly special day where everything came together!"
Senior Michael
Gannon recorded
a pool- and school-record 59.23 in the 100 breast stroke.
:
Lake Forest's 200
medley relay consisting of Bryan
Bunning, Michael Gannon, Colin Rowe & Mitch Stoehr (1:36.35)--pool and school record; Lake
Forest's Mitch
Stoehr-- 200
free, (1:41.16)--Pool record
: 200
IM--4th place Michael Gannon
(1:59.5); 50
free--2nd
place Patrick Kaufmann (:21.77); 100 fly--3rd place
Bryan Bunning (:53.48); 100
free--2nd
place Mitch Stoehr (:46.76) and 6th place Patrick Kaufman (:48.58); 500
free--2nd
place Davis Malone (4:40.97) and 4th place Peter Grumhaus (4:47.04); 100
back--2nd place Bryan Bunning (:54.38) and 4th place Peter
Grumhaus (:54.97); 400 free relay--2nd place Lake
Forest (3:13.76) Diving--8th place Marsh (335.45)
02/02/10
The Lake Forest High School Boys' Swimming and Diving Team had a great
meet on 2/2/10 versus Zion Benton and Waukegan. This is the first year
of swimming for Waukegan, so the Scouts were glad to welcome them to
Lake Forest High School. The Scouts won the meet and
a good time was had by all courtesy of the diving team as they showed
off their "clown
moves" halfway through the meet.
:
Augie Athenson - 200 free, Alex
Wang - 200 IM, 100 Back, Owen Chang
- 50 Free, Matt Duong - 100 Free, and Kevin
Li - 100 Breaststroke.
: Mitch
Burns - 200 Free, Alex Reid - 200 IM, 100 Butterfly, Jason
Thomson - 500 Freestyle, Thomas Remissong - 100 Back, Ryan
Liu - 100 Breaststroke.
The final dual-meet competition of
the season for the Scouts is tonight, 02/04/10 at
Vernon Hills.
The Scouts are back into competition next week with JV Conference
on Friday, Feb. 12, at Vernon Hills and Varsity Conference Saturday,
Feb. 13, at Vernon Hills. GO SCOUTS!!
01/21/10 Senior Night
A great time was had by all last night at Senior Night. The Scouts
swam against Mundelein and came away with wins
at the Varsity and JV levels. We celebrated our seniors and honored teachers that had
a tremendous impact on them during their four years at Lake Forest
High School.
The parent-child relay followed the meet,
and the Burns family came out victorious. Double
winners for the
Scouts were Mitch Stoehr--100, 200 Freestyle, and Peter
Grumhaus--500 Free and 100 Back. Individual
event winners for the Scouts were Michael
Gannon - 100 Breast, Bryan Bunning
- 100 Fly, Patrick Kaufmann - 50 Free. First
place finishes in the 200 Medley Relay and 200 Free Relay added
to the excitement. Our Seniors that were honored are as follows:
Wes Cary, Owen Chang, Jack Crowe, Matt Ehrhardt, Trey Frame, Michael
Gannon, Will Howard, Patrick Kaufmann, Derek Mohrmann, Nick Pabich,
Patrick Pesch, Mitch Stoehr and Austin Zielinski. Congratulations
and GO SCOUTS!
The Boys Swimming and Diving Team would like to donate enough
money to purchase one Shelter Box for Haiti. (see below)
The LF/LB Rotary is taking the lead and all monies collected
through the high school will channel to them.
The cost of a shelter box is $1000....if all 46 boys and
4 coaches donate $20 the team would be able to support one "shelter."
This is a project for the team to work together on!
Coach Cindy will be taking donations up until practice
ends on Friday. We will also have a donation box at Senior
Night in the stands Thursday. Any amount of donation is appreciated.....Checks
can be made payable to LFHS with "Haiti" on the subject line.
We are hoping all boys will participate in some way....no
donation is too small!!!
A Shelter Box costs $1000
and contains the following:
• A ten
person tent
• Vinyl insulated
sleeping mats and lightweight thermal blanket
• Multi-fueled
cook stove
• Eating utensils:
enamel plates/cups
• Water
purification tablets
• Other emergency
survival equipment, e.g., rope, shovel
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01/09/10--Evanston Invite
Lake Forest High School competed in the Evanston Invite on Saturday
January 9, and placed 9th out of 18 teams. The Scouts
competed against some of the top teams in the state and raced extremely
well. Mitch Stoehr was the Scouts' top finisher,
finishing 1st in the 200 free and 2nd in the
100 free. The 200 Medley
Relay made up of Bryan Bunning - back,
Michael Gannon - breast, Patrick Kaufmann - fly and Mitch Stoehr - free,
placed 3rd with a state qualifying time of 1:39.82.
The Scouts next competition is Thursday January
14 at Stevenson. GO SCOUTS!
The Lake Forest High School JV team
competed in the St. Charles North Pentathalon on Saturday January
9. Alex Reid and Thomas Remissong were
the Scouts' top finishers. Each individual swam 100 free, 100 back,
100 breast, 100 fly and 200 IM.
12/29/09----2009 Officials Metro Invite
The Lake Forest High School Boy's Swim Team competed in the 2009 Officials
Metro Invite on Tuesday December 29 at Homestead
High School in Mequon, Wisconsin. The Scouts came away with
a fantastic 3rd place finish out of 17 teams competing.
The meet is a college-event meet, so many of the events were different
than the normal high school format. The 200 medley
relay, consisting of Peter Grumhaus, Michael Gannon and Mitch
Stoehr, finished 3rd and
the 200 free relay, consisting of Mitch Stoehr,
Patrick Kaufmann, Michael Gannon and Peter Grumhaus, also finished
3rd. The
meet scored through 16, and the following were top 16
finishers. Mitch
Stoehr, 1st in the 200 free, 1st in the 1000 free - Bryan Bunning,
5th in the 400 IM, 3rd in the 200 fly - Davis Malone, 7th in
the 200 free, 3rd in the 1000 free - Peter Grumhaus, 2nd in the
200 back, 7th in the 100 back - Michael Gannon, 2nd in the 100
breast, 7th in the 100 free - Colin Rowe,
10th in the 50 free, 8th in the 100 back - Jack Crowe, 14th in
the 50 free - Peter McCormick, 11th in the 100 fly, 13th in the
200 fly - Alex Reid, 14th in the 100 fly.
The meet was a great diversion from the five hours of training
that the boys have been doing each day this entire Christmas
break. GO SCOUTS!!
12/19/09
Lake Forest Places Second at Lake County Meet Held at Stevenson
Stevenson scored 262 points, followed by Lake Forest (213). Warren and Mundelein
tied for third-place with 178-point totals, just ahead of fifth-place Barrington
(174). Mitch Stoehr won the 50 free (21.84) and 100 free (47.47)
12/17/09
Scouts Begin Season at Barrington Meet
LF swimming is alive and well. Scouts finished first in
the 850 crescendo and sped to top-three acts in four other relays.
LF freshman David Hayes, sophomore Bryan Bunning,
junior Davis Malone and senior Mitch Stoehr clocked a first-place
7:56.11 in the crescendo; Bunning and freshmen Peter
Grumhaus, Peter McCormick and Colin
Rowe silvered in the frosh/soph
200 medley (1:46.91); Stoehr, Bunning,
McCormick and senior Patrick Kaufmann took second in the 300
butterfly relay (2:42.35).
A pair of LF relays placed third: the frosh/soph
400 free (3:28.88) with Bunning, Rowe, McCormick and Grumhaus; and 300 back relay
(2:49.09) with Rowe, Grumhaus, Malone and Kaufmann.
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