Ladies’s Swimming sixth, Males seventh After Day One at Malone

Canton, OH – The Alma College males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups opened competitors on Thursday night time on the Malone Invite. After day one, the Scots sit sixth on the ladies’s facet and seventh on the boys’s facet.

For Alma’s ladies, night kicked off with a sixth-place end within the 200 freestyle relay, that includes Delilah Zingelewicz, Laney Voisinet, Sofia Floros, and Grace Ludema. Floros later earned nineteenth within the 500 freestyle, whereas Voisinet tied for Thirteenth within the 200 IM. Ludema highlighted the session with a fifth-place end within the 50 freestyle, adopted by Hannah Sullivan in twentieth. The 400 medley relay closed the night time with a Thirteenth-place efficiency.

The Scots totaled 179.5 factors to rank sixth out of 13 groups after day one. They path Oberlin College (244 factors) and maintain a slight lead over host Malone (176 factors).

The males opened with a Tenth-place end within the 200 freestyle relay behind the workforce of Noah Newman, Brent Riehl, Nolan Kaiser, and Morrison Wood. In particular person races, Eli Mull positioned Tenth within the 500 freestyle, whereas Cody Benkovsky completed twenty second within the 200 IM. Riehl added a powerful fourth-place swim within the 50 freestyle earlier than the 400 medley relay capped the night time with a Thirteenth-place end.

The Scots sit seventh of 12 groups with 144 factors, trailing Washington & Jefferson (162) and narrowly forward of Fairmont State (141).

Alma returns to the pool tomorrow, with prelims starting at 10 a.m.