Girls’ Swim & Dive Makes Waves at Sections
Congratulations to our Red Knights who qualified for the MSHSL State girls’ swim & dive meet this year!
2024 Highlights
The BSM Girls swimming and diving team have had an incredible season, including breaking a numerous pool pool records, finishing second in the Section 2A meet, and qualifying a number of Red Knight for the 2024 MSHSL Girls Swimming & Diving State Tournament!
- Section 2A: Second Place
- Section 2A Champions: Emma Rudowsky (100 Fly and 500 Free)
- Section 2A Coach of the Year: Katie Reynolds
- All State: Emma Rudowsky, Harriet White
- Metro West Conference Champions
- All Conference: Emma Rudowsky, Siri Gudmundson, Maddie Kirkvold, Carina Gadtke, Harriet White
- Section 2A Results
- Souvenir MSHSL Tournament Program
- 2023 MSHSL Girls Class A Swim & Dive Finals Meet Program
- Individual Champions by Event thru 2023
- 2023 Class A Finals-Results
MSHSL State Tournament Participants – Individual Champions by Event thru 2023
BSM Section 2A Results:
- Diving – Celia Schoen ’29 (2nd place)
- 100 Fly – Emma Rudowsky ’26 (Section Champion) & Harriet White ’25 (2nd place)
- 500 Free – Emma Rudowsky ’26 (Section Champion) & Harriet White ’25 (3rd place)
- 200 Free Relay – Harriet White ’25, Siri Gudmundson ’25, Lilly Schilling ’26, Emma Rudowsky ’26 (2nd place)
- 400 Free Relay – Carina Gatdke ’28, Siri Gudmundson ’25, Madeline Kirkvold ’28, Lilly Schilling ’26 (2nd place)
BSM State Class A Results:
- Celia Schoen ’29 25th place in diving
- Emma Rudowsky ’26: 7th place 100 Fly
- Emma Rudowsky ’26: 3rd place 500 Free
- Harriet White ’25: 16th place 100 Fly
- Harriet White ’25: 7th place for the 500 Free.
- The Red Knights relay teams polished off the weekend by placing 13th in the 200 Free Relay and 10th in the 400 Free Relay.
Varsity Head Coach: Nate Stone
Swim Team Dives Into Season with a New Coach
Last year the BSM Girls Swim and Dive team was coached by Ryan Miksch. However, due to his newborn baby, he decided to take a step back this year. Now, the team is welcoming a new coach: Nate Stone. He’s been coaching alongside returning assistant coach Katie Schmidt and new assistant coach Alena Paulson.
—Knight Errant, the student news organization of Benilde-St. Margaret’s School in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
Welcome Coach Stone
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Nate Stone to the position of Head Varsity Girls Swim and Dive Coach. His background includes a wealth of coaching and administrative experiences that will help him successfully oversee not only the varsity team, but also BSM’s entire girls program, which includes students in grades 7-12.
Coach Stone is a local product who attended St. Louis Park High School where he was a 6 time Varsity letter winner, school record holder, served as a two time team captain, and earned all conference and all state accolades. After high school, Stone matriculated to the University of St. Thomas where he was the 2019 MIAC Champion in 200 Butterfly, a four time all MIAC conference swimmer and served as team captain his senior year. Nate graduated with a BS in Computer Engineering and currently works for Graco, Inc in Northeast Minneapolis.
Coach Stone has served as an assistant coach for both the St. Louis Park boys and girls programs and is currently a coach with Hopkins based Hurricanes Swim Team.
Welcome Coach Carlson
We would also like to announce the appointment of Madeline Carlson as Head Varsity Girls Dive Coach. Madeline spent her high school career diving at Blake and her collegiate career at Kenyon College. Her coaching background included stints with Bloomington public schools and a Colorado club named Norco Diving.
At Kenyon Madeline competed in the NCAA DIII Championships meet where she placed in the semi finals on both boards. As a senior at Kenyon she earned All American honors. Coach Carlson graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in Environmental Studies and from Colorado State University with an MA in Ecosystem Science.
We are #BSMproud to welcome Coach Stone and Coach Carlson to our community and wish them and the team success
Girls Swim Team’s Dedication Carries them to State
The six swimmers that advance raced in various events. White and Rudowsky competed in the 500 freestyle and 100 fly races. Along with their events, the team also qualified for the 200-free relay with Schilling, Gudmunson, Gadtke, and Kirkvold and the 400-free relay with White, Rudowksy, Gudmunson, and Schilling. “I’m excited to have my last meet at State and show off what I’ve been working towards this season,” Gudmunson said.
The team prepared the whole week at practice, so they were ready to compete in front of a big audience. Since sections were just a week before, their practices were light, so they weren’t sore or tight for State. “We’ve had to do more yards because we just had sections so it messed up our whole practice routine, so we’ve been going hard but also light to ensure we are rested for this weekend,” White said.
The team’s run at sections was very successful. They finished second overall, and Rudowsky received first place in her individual events. The team is a part of the 2A section, which has very talented teams, including both Breck and Blake. “Everyone is good at state, but Breck and Blake I think are our biggest competition because we compete against them a lot in our sections, and Breck won our section, [so] we [wanted] to beat them,” White said.
The state tournament was a two-day event: Friday, November 8th was the state prelims, and Saturday, November 9th was the finals. It’s an all-day event on both days, so the team got to be together all day and cheer each other on. “On Friday, in the morning we go warm up at the state pool which is at the University of Minnesota, and then we’ll usually get food as a team after. The actual meet starts at noon, and then we get back to school around three, and then Saturday it’s the same thing,” Gudmunson said.
—Knight Errant, the student news organization of Benilde-St. Margaret’s School in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
