As the cherry on top of the best season in program history, the Grandview boys swim team garnered a significant number of spots on the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (NISCA) All-American list for the 2024-2025 season.
Annually, NISCA honors the top 100 individuals and relay teams in each event from across the country who achieve a designated time. The Aurora area is represented by Grandview as well as Cherokee Trail. All Colorado times are adjusted down slightly (proportionally to distance) due to altitude.
Coach Dan Berve’s Wolves — who finished seventh in the tightly packed final team standings at the Class 5A boys state swim meet — had a pair of two-event champions in Oliver Schimberg and Gherman Prudnikau, who both earned All-American honors for the events they won.
The University of Minnesota-bound Schimberg won his third career 5A state championship in the 100 yard backstroke and did so with a time of 47.21 seconds that was 10th fastest in the nation, while his championship-winning 100 yard butterfly time of 47.41 placed him 16th. Prudnikau — who committed to Ohio State University — swept the 5A state titles in the distance freestyles with All-American performances in the 500 yard freestyle (where his time of 4:22.12 ranked 16th) and the 200 yard freestyle, where he was the country’s 30th-fastest swimmer with a time of 1:36.99.
Additionally, Schimberg and Prudnikau gained All-American status in the 400 yard freestyle relay along with teammates Evan Linnebur and Christian Burgeson. The Grandview foursome swam an adjusted 3:03.58, which placed it fifth in state and was good enough for 36th nationally.
Cherokee Trail’s All-American performance came from junior Tyson Walker, who made it in the 200 individual medley. He placed seventh in the 5A finals in the event with an adjusted time of 1:49.79 that tied him for 84th nationally.
Swimmers from Cherry Creek, Cheyenne Mountain, Columbine, Douglas County, Fairview, Fossil Ridge, Greeley West, Highlands Ranch, Legacy, Monarch, Mullen, Poudre and Valor Christian also represented Colorado on the NISCA the All-American list.
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2025 NISCA COLORADO BOYS SWIMMING ALL-AMERICANS
200 yard medley relay: 9. Cherry Creek (Camille Trinquesse, Talen Palmateer, Hayden Watkins, Connor Kelly), 1 minute, 29.70 seconds; 11. Monarch (Gavin Keogh, Tobin Howe, Isaac Skillern, Ethan DiFronzo), 1:30.07; 22. Columbine (Carter Bradley, Tobin Uhl, Joey Sudermann, Bayden Todd), 1:30.86; T56. Mullen (Joel Silver, Oliver Valdez, Henry Montgomery, Thomas Bradac), 1:31.84; 70. Legacy (Tyler Mills, Daisuke Nakashima, Hector Mu, Austin Neeley), 1:32.38
200 yard freestyle: 21. Gavin Keogh (Monarch), 1 minute, 36.28 seconds; 30. GHERMAN PRUDNIKAU (GRANDVIEW), 1:36.99; 63. Pierce Bickerton (Fossil Ridge), 1:38.05; 90. Carter Bradley (Columbine), 1:38.72
200 yard individual medley: 33. Brennen O’Neil (Fossil Ridge), 1 minute, 48.26 seconds; 35. Micah Moore (Poudre), 1:48.32; 37. Joey Sudermann (Columbine), 1:48.35; 39. Camille Trinquesse (Cherry Creek), 1:48.43; 71. Archer Sanchez (Ponderosa), 1:49.31; 72. Brandon Cho (Highlands Ranch), 1:49.35; 74. Gavin Keogh (Monarch), 1:49.50; 79. Tobin Uhl (Columbine), 1:49.69; T84. TYSON WALKER (CHEROKEE TRAIL), 1:49.79
50 yard freestyle: T63. Ethan DiFronzo (Monarch), 20.42 seconds; T82. Jamie Crawford (Cherry Creek), 20.53; 87. Jacob Smith (Douglas County), 20.56
100 yard butterfly: 16. OLIVER SCHIMBERG (GRANDVIEW), 47.41 seconds; 31. Lincoln Hoffman (Valor Christian), 47.92
100 yard freestyle: 53. Jacob Smith (Douglas County), 44.66 seconds
500 yard freestyle: 16. GHERMAN PRUDNIKAU (GRANDVIEW), 4 minutes, 22.12 seconds; 50. Carter Bradley (Columbine), 4:27.13; 72. Grant Pier (Cherry Creek), 4:29.27; 83. Barrett Kerrigan (Cheyenne Mountain), 4:30.42
200 yard freestyle relay: 11. Cherry Creek (Talen Palmateer, Hayden Watkins, Connor Kelly, Jamie Crawford), 1 minute, 22.45 seconds; T40. Legacy (Tyler Mills, Hector Mu, Austin Neeley, Daisuke Nakashima), 1:23.57; T66. Valor Christian (Josh Heydt, Lincoln Hoffman, Eddie Chen, Luke Larson), 1:24.05; 68. Mullen (Thomas Bradac, Oliver Valdez, Noah Silver, Aleksandras Aleinikovas), 1:24.06
100 yard backstroke: 2. Gavin Keogh (Monarch), 46.43 seconds; 10. OLIVER SCHIIMBERG (GRANDVIEW), 47.21; T56. Joey Sudermann (Columbine), 48.93; 64. Camille Trinquesse (Cherry Creek), 49.11
100 yard breaststroke: 54. Tobin Uhl (Columbine), 54.97 seconds; 65. Talen Palmateer (Cherry Creek), 55.35; 66. Brandon Cho (Highlands Ranch), 55.36
400 yard freestyle relay: 13. Fairview (Wesley Schlachter, Andres Koschmann, Jack Garnett, Soren Koschmann (Fairview), 3:01.51; 20. Fossil Ridge (Pierce Bickerton, Owen Walsh, Brennen O’Neil, Jake Barela), 3:02.29; 22. Cherry Creek (Jamie Crawford, Marcus Garland, Connor Kelly, Camille Trinquesse), 3:02.34; 27. Mullen (Joel Silver, Alexandras Aleinkovas, Noah Silver, Henry Montgomery), 3:02.92; 30. Columbine (Bayden Todd, Joey Sudermann, Tobin Uhl, Carter Bradley), 3:03.13; 36. GRANDVIEW (Gherman Prudnikau, Evan Linnebur, Christian Burgeson, Oliver Schimberg), 3:03.58; 48. Valor Christian (Luke Lrason, Eddie Chen, Lincoln Hoffman, Josh Heydt), 3:04.02; 87. Monarch (Tobin Howe, Gavin Keogh, Isaac Skillern, Ethan DiFronzo), 3:05.55
