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Schulte sets two season bests in 50 and 200-yard freestyle
Raiders win five events in home invite
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WILLIAMSBURG — Improvements by tenths of seconds are what swimmers aim for in the pool.
In the Williamsburg Invitational Tuesday, Williamsburg boys swimmer Cameron Schulte took that a step further in the 200-yard freestyle.
Schulte came in with a seed time of 2:13.80, and crushed his best time from a season ago by nearly seven seconds in 2:06.94. It was also an all-time best; Schulte’s best from two seasons ago was 2:07.72.
The time was also good enough for the win.
“I was real happy with that and was pretty excited to win and see my teammate come in second,” Schulte said.
The winning did not stop there.
Shortly after, Schulte set another season best in the 50 freestyle in 24.58.
Fittingly, those two events are the ones Schulte aims to focus on individually in the second half of the season, as he aims to improve.
“Just looking to keep working on consistent turns and keeping up-tempo,” Schulte said of his freestyle events.
Schule also contributed to a relay title on the night to make it three victories, competing as the anchor leg of the 200 freestyle relay, which swam a season best time of 1:40.78.
The other three members of the quartet were Tyler Warren, Tyler Patrick and Bo Bray.
The Raiders added two more victories as they finished second as a team with 306 points. Oskaloosa won the team race with a score of 338 1/2.
The other event titles were in the 200 medley relay, with a quartet of Bray, Vivaan Jaiswal, Warren and Patrick in a time of 1:53.74, another season best; and Warren in the 100 butterfly in 1:00.54.
“I think our team did great overall,” Schulte said. “We got a lot of personal records today.”
Not only was there a lot of new season bests from the Raiders as they enter 2026 and the second half of the season, but there was improved technique seen in the pool.
“There was a lot of good personal swims and bests, but also technique improvement which was huge,” Williamsburg coach Jan Severns said. “That helps build confidence.”
Severns hopes Tuesday’s performances build into the rest of the season as the Raiders prepare for their toughest regular season competition Saturday at Linn-Mar.
“We have room to grow,” Severns said. “Saturday will be a good litmus test for us. We’re trying to ramp things up to get them to where they want to be.“
Team Scores
1. Oskaloosa 338.5, 2. Williamsburg 306, 3. Centerville 251, 4. Vinton-Shellsburg 127.5,
Individual Results
(Winners plus top Williamsburg finisher)
200 medley relay — 1. Williamsburg (Bray, Jaiswal, Warren, Patrick), 1:53,74
200 freestyle — 1. Cameron Schulte (Williamsburg), 2:06.94
200 individual medley — 1. Luke Wilden (Vinton-Shellsburg), 2:19.55; 4. Henry Davidson (Williamsburg), 3:04.20
50 freestyle — 1. Cameron Schulte (Williamsburg), 24.58
100 butterfly — 1. Tyler Warren (Williamsburg), 1:00.54
100 freestyle — Leo white (Centerville), 54.86; 7. Brevin Zirkel (Williamsburg), 1:08.65
500 freestyle — 1. Dawson Sytsma (Oskaloosa), 5:50.58; 2. Vivaan Jaiswal (Williamsburg), 6:48.16
200 freestyle relay — 1. Williamsburg (Warren, Patrick, Bray, Schulte), 1:40.78
100 backstroke — 1. Ian Rosvold (Oskaloosa), 1:09.38; 2. Bo Bray (Williamsburg), 1:12.91
100 breaststroke — 1. Sullivan Boender (Oskaloosa), 1:12.35; 2. Vivaan Jaiswal (Williamsburg), 1:13.63
400 freestyle relay — 1. Centerville, 3:51.86; 3. Williamsburg (Monohon, Patrick, Schulte, Davidson), 4:09.65
