Three swimmers earn convention honors

GROVE CITY, Pa. — Three Grove City College swimmers earned Presidents’ Athletic Conference weekly honors Tuesday afternoon in recognition of their respective performances final Saturday on the Geneseo State Quad Meet in Webster, N.Y.

Grove City swept the ladies’s awards for the week. Sophomore Hadleigh McNay (Tucker, Ga./Tucker) received Swimmer of the Week whereas Newcomer of the Week honors went to freshman Mollie Massella (Slippery Rock, Pa./Slippery Rock).

Freshman George Witte (Columbia, S.C./Covenant Classical Christian) earned Newcomer of the Week in males’s swimming and diving.

McNay received the 100 breaststroke Saturday with a time of 1 minute, 9.86 seconds. She additionally positioned third within the 200 breaststroke (2:32.38) and helped the 200 medley relay end third with a time of 1:52.59. All thrice are the quickest within the convention to this point this season.

Massella received the 200 butterfly Saturday at Geneseo with a time of two:11.55. That time ranks ninth in program historical past. She additionally completed second within the 100 butterfly (1:01.29) and joined McNay on the 200 medley relay (1:52.59). Massella’s butterfly instances are each tops within the convention.

Witte made his collegiate debut by ending second within the 200 free (1:48.42) on the Geneseo Quad Meet. That time ranks first to this point within the convention this season. He completed sixth within the 100 free (48.61) and seventh within the 100 butterfly (54.64), whereas serving to the 200 medley relay end second with a time of 1:34.57.

Both groups went 2-1 on the meet, incomes wins over Brockport State and Penn State Behrend. 

Grove City’s first twin meet might be this Saturday, when the Wolverines go to Division II Ashland at 1 p.m.