Ladies’s Swimming & Diving Completes Unbeaten Twin Meet Season

Backed by 12 wins in 16 occasions contested, the University of Rochester girls’s swimming and diving crew defeated Ithaca College 165-135 on Saturday on the Speegle-Wilbraham Aquatic Center, finishing an ideal 9-0 twin meet season in 2025-26.
 
URochester finishes the season unbeaten for the primary time for the reason that Yellowjacket girls’s crew was 10-0 again in 1975-76, a span of fifty seasons. The 9 wins within the twin match season are essentially the most by Rochester for the reason that 2016-17 marketing campaign, with the Yellowjackets going 10-2 that 12 months.
 
On Saturday, seven swimmers had been a minimum of double-winners, with Ariana Pasquella and Amelia Hardiman each incomes three wins on the day.
 
Pasquella gained the 100 and 200 breaststroke occasions along with swimming on the 200 medley relay squad that completed first. Hardiman earned her wins within the 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke and 400 IM.
 
The different double-winners had been Sophia Dmytruk, Addison Powers, Morgan Edstrom, Kaela Springer and Julianne Weaver.
 
The meet began out with a UR win within the 200 medley relay, with the crew of Dmytruk, Pasquella, Powers and Edstrom attending to the wall in 1:49.40.
 
Up subsequent was the 1000 freestyle, with Katelyn Packer and Rachel Ruminer incomes second and third place respectively. Packer touched in 11:13.13, whereas Ruminer earned a time of 11:15.00.
 
Hardiman’s first of three wins got here subsequent within the 200 free, with the sophomore swimming a time of 1:59.26. That kickstarted a stretch of 4 straight occasions with a victory for URochester.
 
Dmytruk adopted by successful the 100 backstroke in 59.85 seconds earlier than Pasquella’s 100 breaststroke win in 1:05.23. Ally Mackey made it 4 straight with a 2:09.80 swim within the 200 butterfly, ending forward of second place Powers (2:13.32).
 
Edstrom ended as runner-up within the 50 freestyle whereas Springer earned her first of two wins within the diving occasions, scoring 256.05 factors on the 1-meter board. Julia Sides ended third within the 1-meter diving with a rating of 234.95 factors.
 
Up subsequent, Weaver earned a victory within the 100 freestyle, posting a time of 53.92 seconds.
 
Hardiman and Phoebe Hamblett had been first and third within the 200 backstroke, with Hardiman posting a time of two:08.61, forward of Hamblett’s swim of two:10.50.
 
Pasquella adopted along with her third win of the day within the 200 breaststroke, scoring the victory in 2:23.18.
 
Packer was Rochester’s prime finisher within the 500 freestyle, putting fourth (5:36.83), and Powers earned a 3rd place end within the 100 butterfly (59.26 seconds) forward of the Yellowjackets claiming wins within the closing three occasions within the pool.
 
Springer once more gained, scoring 285.60 factors on the 3-meter board, with Sides incomes one other third place outcome, tallying a 265.80-point whole.
 
In the 400 IM, URochester completed 1-2, with Hardiman successful in 4:41.93 and Mackey putting second with a time of 4:42.73.
 
To shut off the victory and ideal twin meet season, the 200 freestyle relay crew of Adele Hellstrom, Powers, Edstrom and Weaver had been first to the wall in 1:39.83.
 
Prior to the beginning of the meet, the Yellowjackets celebrated Senior Day, with eight seniors being honored for his or her efforts during the last 4 years with this system. The honorees had been Caelan Clayton, Edstrom, Hannah Gentile, Paige Lovelace, Pasquella, Talia Proweller, Izzy Stevenson and Marlena Vieira.
 
Rochester now shifts its focus to the upcoming UAA Swimming and Diving Championships to be held on the University of Chicago from February 11-14.