Missouri Schools Make a Big Splash in 2016-17 NISCA Dual Meet Team Rankings

In the recent 2016-2017 NISCA National Dual Meet Team Rankings, Clayton High School achieved the Highest National Ranking in its class among 24 Missouri schools who entered.  Clayton finished 6^th with 4,001 points in Class 1 Boys Public Schools with 1-900 students.  The National Interscholastic Swim Coach’s Association (NISCA) received a record 376 entries from high school schools and published the National Dual Meet Rankings in 12 Classes based on gender, and school type and size.  Entries are based on each team’s submission of best dual meet line-up of 2016-2017 season’s best swimming times and diving scores which maximize their team scores calculated using a graduated schedule of increasing points for faster swim times or higher diving scores.  Central High School (Cape Girardeau) was the next highest ranking Missouri school in it class finishing 13^th with 4,400 points in Class 2 Boys Public Schools with 901-1400 students followed closely by Chaminade College Prep finishing 14^th with 3,343 points in Class 9 Boys Independent Schools (1-900 students), Visitation Academy finishing 15^th with 4,061 points in Class 11 Girls Independent Schools (1-900 students) andLadue Horton Watkins High School finishing 16^th with 4,222 points in Class 2 Public Boys Schools (901-1400 students) to round out the Top 5 finishing Missouri Schools.  Of the 24 Missouri schools submitting entries in 11 of the 12 classes of national rankings, 13 schools (highlighted in bold below) finished in the Top 25 Schools Nationally in their respective Classes.  Scoring the most points of any Missouri school was Marquette High School with 5,216 points finishing 25^th in the highly competitive Class 8 Girls Public school with over 1900 students.  In addition, 7 Missouri schools submitted both Boys & Girls entries for their schools to be recognized in the Combined National Dual Meet Rankings.  Ladue Horton Watkins High School achieved the Highest Combined National Ranking finishing 13^th with 7,886 combine points in the Class 2 Boys/Class 6 Girls Combined with Logan-Rogersville (18^th with 3,011 combined points in Class 1/5), Rock Bridge (20^th with 7,438 combined points in Class 3/7) and Liberty (23^rd with 7,020 in Class 3/7) to round out the four schools in the Combined National Ranking to finish in the Top 25 Nationally within their respective Combined Classes.  Scoring the most Combined points of any Missouri school was Lafayette with 8,627 finishing 33^rd in the highly competitive Class 4 Boys/Class 8 Girls Combined.  Since this was the first year that any Missouri school made submissions to the NISCA National Dual Meet Team Rankings, each school that finished first in their respective Class and Combined Class represent Missouri Records in this national ranking.  Those interested to see the complete results of the NISCA National Dual Meet Rankings can find them at https://www.niscaonline.org/aalists/2017/pprank2017.pdf and https://www.niscaonline.org/aalists/2017/ppstats2017.pdf for both individual team results by class as well as a summary of national statistics.

Individual Class Rankings:

listed as: National Ranking. Xxxx pts – School (Coach)

Class 1 – Boys Public (1-900 Students)

6. 4001 pts – Clayton High School (David Kohmetscher)

18. 1480 pts – Logan-Rogersville High School (Wendy Shepard)

Class 2 – Boys Public (901-1400 Students)

13. 4400 pts – Central High School (Dayna Powell)

16. 4222 pts – Ladue Horton Watkins High School (Hap Gentry)

19. 4119 pts – Kearney High School (Nathan Long)

43. 1471 pts – Belton High School (Martijn Keltner)

Class 3 – Boys Public (1401-1900 Students)

33. 3736 pts – Rock Bridge High School (Zach Mertens)
34. 3697 pts – Liberty High School (Chris Murphy)

42. 2029 pts – Hickman High School (Zach Mertens)

Class 4 – Boys Public (Over 1900 Students)

48. 3656 pts – Lafayette High School (Todd Gable)

Class 5 – Girls Public (1-900 Students)

19. 1531 pts – Logan-Rogersville High School (Wendy Shepard)

21. 1192 pts – St. Charles High School (Martha Ann Flentge)

Class 6 – Girls Public (901-1400 Students)

20. 4070 pts – Parkway Central High School (Jennifer Meyer)

26. 3664 pts – Ladue Horton Watkins High School (Hap Gentry)

34. 2275 pts – Belton High School (Martijn Keltner)

Class 7 – Girls Public (1401-1900 Students)

28. 3702 pts – Rock Bridge High School (Zach Mertens)

30. 3653 pts – Hickman High School (Zach Mertens)

32. 3323 pts – Liberty High School (Chris Murphy)

Class 8 – Girls Public (Over 1900 Students)

25. 5216 pts – Marquette High School (Joe Schoedel)

31. 4971 pts – Lafayette High School (Todd Gabel)

Class 9 – Boys Independent (1-900 Students)

14. 3343 pts – Chaminade College Prep (Kevin Brennan)

Class 10 – Boys Independent (Over 900 Students)

21. 3911 pts – Christian Brothers College High School (Sean Dooley)

Class 11 – Girls Independent (1-900 Students)

15. 4061 pts – Visitation Academy (Sean Dooley)

17. 2964 pts – Cor Jesu Academy (Rachael Graczak)

Class 12 – Girls Independent (Over 900 Students)

0. No Entries (No Missouri Schools in this classification)

Combined Classes

Class 1/5 Public Combined (1-900 Students)

18. 3011 pts – Logan-Rogersville High School (Wendy Shepard)

Class 2/6 Public Combined (901-1400 Students)

13. 7886 pts – Ladue Horton Watkins High School (Hap Gentry)

47. 3746 pts – Belton High School (Martijn Keltner)

Class 3/7 Public Combined (1401-1900 Students)

20. 7438 pts – Rock Bridge High School (Zach Mertens)

23. 7020 pts – Liberty High School (Chris Murphy)

27. 5662 pts – Hickman High School (Zach Mertens)

Class 4/8 Public Combined (Over 1900 Students)

33. 8627 pts – Lafayette High School (Todd Gabel)

The push to split into classes. Let's talk about it!

A lot of very smart coaches have been working hard to get the ball rolling on the MSHSAA letting us split boys and girls swimming into two classes.  We are very close to the numbers needed but there is a push to go ahead and let us split now.

So far the discussion has centered around these factors that many think are vital to the health of the sport:

Conference Meet Time!

I posted the prelim to the SWMO Championship on the meet results page... Come on coaches, give us some results to browse so we know what is going on in your part of the state!  Submit pdf's or links to shawn.klosterman@gmail.com

thanks!

Conference Meets are Coming Up

Okay, coaches...

We haven't been able to get this site really rolling yet, which is understandable since we all know every one of us is busy, but here is something you can do to add value to the site:

send in meet results from your area for all to see!  With the conference meets coming up, we are all going to be very interested in everything going on in other parts of the state, even beyond what the direct athletics rankings can tell us.  Let's help each other out by making sure your fellow MISCA members can see the action in your area.

I recently posted the Central Ozarks Conference Invite and Springfield Invitational from the SWMO area.  If you have any other past meets, I am happy to post them.  Just email pdf's or links to shawn.klosterman@gmail.com

This is why we have a site guys... to share information!

Videos from the Mizzou Clinic

If you missed the clinic at Mizzou you really missed something special.  It is very evident from the short time we spent there that Coach Rhodenbaugh has assembled a fantastic staff and they are on the way up.  Everyone there was truly a class act.

Also, a big thanks to Jim Aziere and the rest of the MISCA board for the work they did to put this together.  Becoming a member of MISCA is becoming more valuable than ever because of their work.

While we haven't been able to get all of the information from the clinic yet to post here, Coach Andy Grevers sent me links to some videos with notes through Dropbox.  Please let me know if you have trouble playing the videos or if you need to slow them down.

Links:

Starts and Turns with Notes

Technique with Notes

shawn.klosterman@gmail.com

Welcome to the New MISCA Website!

We hope that this site can become a hang-out for high school swimming and diving coaches in Missouri who are members of the Missouri Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association (MISCA).

We  want to post meet information and results for all to see, but we also want this to become a place for discussion to move our sport forward.  If you have any ideas to make this site better, please don't hesitate to let us know.