Ladies’s Diving Leads as Eagles Full Day 2 of 2026 Conference Meet

Another day has come and gone on the 2026 Great Midwest Athletic Conference / Mountain East Conference Championship.

The Ashland University swimming and diving workforce pushed itself additional into rivalry for a convention title, as each the women and men sit in second place with two extra days to go. On Day 2, the Eagles have been led by the diving but once more, as they almost swept the competitors. This time, although, it was the ladies’s workforce.

In the ladies’s 3-meter diving, the Eagles have been capable of snag the highest 4 spots, with Riley Hunt ending in first with a rating of 501.35 factors. She was adopted by Maddi Whitticar, Macey Wade and Ella Howard.

In the ladies’s 100-yard butterfly, Hannah Yemec was capable of end in first place within the B ultimate with a time of 58.23 seconds for 20 workforce factors. Juliana Pignato completed in twelfth, Payton Meyer completed in 18th and Joselyn Hensley got here in twentieth; every was capable of rating. On the boys’s aspect, Colin Pham led them with a B ultimate win, coming in at a time of 51.01 seconds. Cole Huebner, Jack Elliott, Daniel Correa Hammer and Ryan McEvilly all added factors as properly.

As the pool turned to the 400-yard particular person medley, Brooke Patel stepped up and gave the Eagles one of many workforce’s greatest finishes of the day.

She got here in sixth place with a time of 4:41.06, with Mary Kate Prall simply behind in seventh at 4:45.53. Rachel Stanchek and Stephanie Holubetz have been all capable of rating for the workforce, too. For the boys, Nick Olquin, Ryan Mohler and Lucas Leibrand all completed high 15.

In the ladies’s 200-yard freestyle, Yasmim Tomita and Payton O’Toole completed high 15, with occasions of 1:55.33 and 1:56.55, respectively. Kit Kat Anderson got here in simply behind them in twentieth. Robin Falk led the boys with the perfect results of Day 2 for the Eagles, coming in fourth place at a time of 1:40.48, adopted by Nick Girz in fifth at 1:41.01. William Collins, Grant Brown, Lincoln Shirley, Jason Basile and Cooper Young have been additionally all capable of assist produce workforce factors.

With the evening concluding, the Eagles’ relay groups completed the evening off on a pleasant word. The girls’s 400-yard medley relay workforce positioned third at a time of three:54.56, whereas the boys’s workforce completed second in 3:24.50.

Heading into Day 3, the Eagles will look to maintain discovering high finishers and keep firmly within the hunt for workforce championships because the meet marches into the ultimate two days.