Owls Downed by Purple Knights as Swimming and Diving Starts to Open Season

KEENE, N.H. – The Keene State College males’s and girls’s swimming and diving workforce traveled to Saint Michael’s College on Saturday afternoon for his or her first highway contest of the 2025-2026 season for the fifth consecutive yr with a matchup with the Purple Knights.
 
 
Women’s Highlights

• London Armitage took house first place within the 100 again with a time of 1:07.10 to go along with her second-place end within the 200 again with a time of two:25.96 and her half within the Owls’ second place end within the 200 free relay.
• Tallulah Going completed in second in two occasions, the 50 and 100 free with instances of 26.30 and 58.58, respectively, to go along with her third-place end within the 200 free in 2:11.20 and anchoring the Owls’ second place end within the 200 free relay.
• Olivia Boulris additionally completed with a pair of second-place finishes and a third-place end. Boulris swam 2:33.83 within the 200 fly and a couple of:30.19 within the 200 IM for her second finishes, whereas she got here in third within the 100 fly in 1:09.54.
• Kyleigh Dyer and Rory Lee had been the opposite two Owls to assist the relay workforce place second within the 200 free relay, whereas Lee additionally positioned third in two different occasions, coming within the mile in 19:41.86, and within the 500 free in 5:52.65.

 
Men’s Highlights

• Cooper Niles took house first in each the 1m and 3m diving occasions as he scored a 180.35 within the 1m and a 177.75 within the 3m to go together with his third-place end within the 50 free with a time of 25.02.
• Caiden Cox debuted for the Owls and completed third within the 100 breast with a time of 1:05.92, whereas main the Owls off of their second-place end within the 200 free relay with a beginning leg time of 24.51.
• Carter Beauchesne additionally debuted for the Owls and anchored the Owls’ 200 free relay group that positioned second with the quickest trip of the group with a leg of 23.62. Beauchesne additionally positioned third within the 200 fly with a time of two:17.16.
• Alec Agosto and Zack Menz rounded out the Owls’ 200 free relay group with instances of 25.23 and 23.74, respectively.

 
“St. Michael’s was tough competition, but I was happy to get a couple of event wins from Armitage and Niles,” stated Owls’ head coach Chris Woolridge. “The team as a whole, swam well. We had 13 lifetime best performances and some big improvements from our first-year swimmers. We’ve got a lot of work to do, but this meet showed us we are headed in the right direction!”
 
The Owls had been defeated on the day by the Purple Knights 212-72 on the ladies’s facet and 225-66 on the lads’s facet.
 
Keene State returns to motion subsequent weekend again at house in opposition to Gordon College on Saturday, October 25, at 1:00 PM for his or her subsequent contest