Eagle Swim And Dive Returns To Pool In Quad At SVSU

In the primary meet of the second semester on Saturday (Jan. 10), Ashland University’s males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups competed in a quad at Saginaw Valley State with Hillsdale and Lake Superior State.
 
The Eagle males topped LSSU (180-43) and misplaced to SVSU (179-59), whereas the AU ladies beat the Lakers (190-28) and misplaced to the Cardinals (153.5-87.5) and the Chargers (145-92).
 
Junior Riley Hunt earned Ashland’s wins on Saturday, taking the highest spot in each ladies’s 1-meter (284.30 factors) and 3-meter (238.85) diving.
 
Second-place finishes have been earned by senior Nick Girz within the males’s 50-yard freestyle (21.76 seconds) and males’s 100 free (47.18 seconds), freshman Altin Rowland in males’s 1-meter (207.10 factors) and 3-meter (201.75) diving, junior Payton O’Toole within the ladies’s 100 free (54.86 seconds), sophomore Yasmim Tomita within the ladies’s 100 backstroke (59.14 seconds), junior Colin Pham within the males’s 100 again (53.36 seconds), and senior Jason Basile within the males’s 500 free (5:01.94).
 
Junior Hannah Yemec was third in each the ladies’s 200 particular person medley (2:17.75) and 100 butterfly (1:00.06), and different particular person thirds have been turned in by junior Grant Brown within the males’s 1,000 free (10:37.37), sophomore Ella Howard in ladies’s 1-meter diving (204.60 factors), senior Maddi Whitticar in ladies’s 3-meter diving (215.65 factors), and freshman Lincoln Shirley within the males’s 500 free (5:05.19).
 
Third-place relays have been – the ladies’s 200 medley relay of Tomita, juniors Blair Picola and Juliana Pignato, and O’Toole (1:53.72); the boys’s 200 medley relay of Pham, senior Andrew Oates, sophomore Daniel Correa Hammer and freshman Trei Durstine (1:38.54); the ladies’s 400 free relay of freshman Katelyn Claugus, Pignato, Yemec and O’Toole (3:44.13); and the boys’s 400 free relay of senior Cole Huebner, Pham, senior Robin Falk and Girz (3:12.04).
 
COMING UP
Back to the Messerly Natatorium for Senior Night on Friday (Jan. 16) at 6 p.m. vs. Mount Union.