AURORA—The Rosary High School Beads swim team brought home the state championship trophy.  Top winners were:

n 200 Medley Relay with time of 1:43.09 (Athena Ye, Sydney VanOvermeiren, Camryn
Streid and Emily Ryan), a  new school record.

n 200 Free Relay with time of 1:33.72 (Athena Ye, Kathryn Mueller, Alexis Yager, and Emily Ryan), pool and new school record.

n Alexis Yager in 200 IM with time of 2:01.58, a  new school record.

n Athena Ye in the 100 Backstroke with a time of 54.97, a  new school record.

The final score of 192 points is also a school record for most points scored at a state competition.

Coached by Bill Schalz, the Beads were undefeated on the season, and won the conference championship and sectional title.

Rosary had a four-year run as state champions from 2006 through 2009. The team finished second in 2014.
A celebration rally was held Nov. 22 at the high school.

Rosary Beads state qualifiers are Julie Bottarini, Sarah Fergus, Linda Licari, Kathryn Mueller, Katherine Rentz (senior committed to swim at Notre Dame), Emily Ryan, Camryn Streid, Sydney VanOvermeiren, Alexis Yager, Athena Ye and Georgia Young