Three swimmers honored Monday – Grove City College Athletics

GROVE CITY, Pa. — Three Grove City College swimmers earned Presidents’ Athletic Conference weekly honors Monday afternoon in recognition of their respective efficiency Saturday in twin meet victories at Penn State Behrend. 

Freshman Abigail Vance (Butler, Pa./Butler) earned Swimmer of the Week in girls’s swimming and diving. The Grove City males’s swimming and diving program swept this week’s awards as junior Owen Hancock (Brunswick, Ohio/Westside Christian) captured Swimmer of the Week and freshman George Witte (Columbia, S.C./Covenant Classical Christian) merited Newcomer of the Week.

Vance helped lead Grove City to a 179-105 win at Behrend by securing three particular person wins. She received the 100 breaststroke in a time of 1 minute, 9.42 seconds after which took the 200 breaststroke with a time of two:29.55. Vance then posted a successful time of two:16.13 within the 200 particular person medley. 

Hancock and Witte helped the lads’s group to a 188-100 victory over Penn State Behrend. Hancock chalked up three particular person wins and two pool data Saturday . He received the 100 backstroke in 52.41 seconds, then prevailed within the 100 free (47.92) and 100 butterfly (51.69).

Hancock additionally led off Grove City’s successful 200 medley relay, which posted a pool-record time of 1:32.36. His cut up of 23.18 seconds is the quickest 50 backstroke in Behrend pool historical past.

Witte received the 200 free at Penn State Behrend with a time of 1:46.51. He additionally contributed to a win within the 200 free relay (1:26.16). Additionally, Witte took second within the 200 backstroke (1:58.65) and 200 particular person medley (2:02.63).

This is Witte’s fifth Newcomer of the Week award this yr. It is Hancock’s first profession Swimmer of the Week award. Vance beforehand earned Women’s Swimmer of the Week recognition November 11. She obtained Newcomer of the Week honors December 8.

The Grove City swimming and diving groups return to motion Friday and Saturday on the Carnegie Mellon Invitational.