Sarah Lopez, Aidan Donovan sweep MWC Swimming and Diving Performer of the Week honors

GRINNELL, Iowa – Following spectacular performances in opposition to a number of the nation’s greatest competitors, Grinnell College student-athletes have swept the Midwest Conference Performer of the Week honors in swimming and diving.
 
Sarah Lopez ’26 was the ladies’s winner, whereas Aidan Donovan ’28 gained on the lads’s facet.
 
Donovan, from Beloit, Wis. (Beloit Memorial), shattered three MWC and faculty information on the highly-competitive University of Chicago Phoenix Fall Classic over the weekend. New marks have been set within the 50-yard freestyle (20.41 seconds), 100 freestyle (44.89) and 200 freestyle relay with Spencer Pfaff ’29, Evan Feilmeyer ’28 and Rommin Adl ’26 (1:21.38). Donovan’s time within the 100 free was an NCAA “B” lower, as nicely. He additionally swam on the 400 freestyle relay workforce that went 3:00.95, second-best in GC historical past, in addition to the 200 and 400 medley relays that completed in 1:31.93 and three:22.22. Those instances are every fourth on GC’s report board. He swam the 200 freestyle, as nicely, going 1:44.11 to rank 17^th all-time at Grinnell. All of Donovan’s particular person performances, aside from the 200 freestyle, and all of the relays are tops within the MWC this season.
 
Lopez, from Spring, Texas (Woodlands), posted MWC-leading instances in three particular person occasions and three extra in relays on the Phoenix Fall Classic. Her instances of 58.09 within the 100 butterfly, 2:08.51 within the 200 butterfly and a pair of:09.55 within the 200 particular person medley all lead the league. She additionally swam on the MWC-leading 400 freestyle (3:37.70), 800 freestyle (8:04.72) and 400 medley relays (3:58.99). Additionally, Lopez’s clocking of 59.98 within the 100 backstroke is second within the league.