Milan Swims Past Competition at SMISL

The Milan Big Reds scored 37 of a possible 42 entrants on the way to winning the Southern Michigan Interscholastic Swim League meet at Tecumseh on Friday and Saturday. Milan won the meet with a final score of 370 points; the Adrian Maples took second with a score of 325, followed by Tecumseh (305), Chelsea (242) and Bedford (150).

Milan topped the scoreboard by having numerous swimmers score, often scoring four places in individuals’ races and two in relays. Their lowest top-time finish was a third place in the 500 yard freestyle, but Milan still scored four swimmers in the race. 

“These guys worked real hard for this. I’ve been preaching from day one that if we were going to win this, we were going to need to be four deep, score four guys as many times as we could and we did. I’m really proud of them,” said head coach Dan Heikka.

Dylan Shearer, who won the Swimmer of the Meet honors, won the 50-yard freestyle (22.18), the 100-yard breaststroke (1:00.62) and anchored the winning 400 yard freestyle relay. He also scored in the second Milan 200-yard medley relay.

 Tyler Fisher won the 200 yard individual medley (2:04.66), the 100-yard butterfly (53.84) and was also on the 400-yard freestyle winning relay. Dylan Miller won the 200-yard freestyle (1:50.99), the 100-yard freestyle (49.62), swam on the winning 400-yard freestyle relay and anchored the second place 200-yard freestyle relay.

Other notables for the Big Reds include Colby Williams, who took second in diving on Friday, Tyler Digesare, who won the 100-yard backstroke (56.56), was on the 400-yard freestyle winning relay and the second place 200-yard medley relay and 200-yard freestyle relay and Sam Franklin, who scored in two individual races, including a third place finish in the 500-yard freestyle (5:31.63), and as the anchor of the second 200-yard Milan freestyle relay.

Diving Regionals are on Tuesday. The state preliminaries are on Friday followed by finals on Saturday.

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