Ladies’s swimming and diving tops Gustavus for first time in 13 years

NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College ladies’s swimming and diving crew defeated Gustavus Adolphus College for the primary time in 13 years, whereas the boys’s crew fell to the Gusties in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) twin meet on Friday night at Skoglund Center Natatorium.

The St. Olaf ladies picked up a 162-138 victory over Gustavus, led by 4 Oles who gained a number of occasions within the twin. The Ole males misplaced by a 209-70 margin regardless of a pair of first-place performances from senior Aiden Yung.

Junior Katie Homme, sophomore Olivia Small, and junior Alana Schmitzer all gained a pair of swimming occasions for St. Olaf, whereas senior Zibby Hanifl was first in each periods of the one-meter diving. Hanifl posted scores of 174.45 and 254.35.

Homme was the primary to the touch the wall within the 50-yard freestyle (24.97) and 200-yard freestyle (1:58.51), profitable the later occasion by seven one-hundredths of a second. Small swept the 100-yard (59.70) and 200-yard (2:11.64) backstroke titles, whereas Schmitzer gained the 100-yard (1:09.09) and 200-yard (2:32.89) breaststroke occasions.

Small, Schmitzer, and Homme have been additionally a part of St. Olaf’s first-place 200-yard medley relay (1:49.05) together with sophomore McKenna Hulgren. Senior Paige Steenblock was additionally a victor for the Oles within the 200-yard butterfly (2:14.07).

Yung claimed first-place finishes within the 200-yard breaststroke (2:11.71) and 200-yard particular person medley (1:58.58) to tempo the Ole males, whereas junior Jack Homme gained the 100-yard butterfly (53.35) by one-tenth of a second.

St. Olaf will swim on the three-day Rochester Invitational Thursday by means of Saturday, Dec. 4-6 at Rochester Recreational Center Natatorium.