W&M ladies’s swimming wins CAA Championship – W&M Information

The following story initially appeared on the website for William & Mary Athletics. – Ed.

Setting the all-time CAA report for workforce factors, the William & Mary ladies’s swimming workforce dominated en path to successful the CAA Championship on Saturday night on the Hampton Aquaplex.

The Tribe earned a mixed 12 medals for the day, bringing their complete medal rely to 32. Seven of these have been gold medals. W&M broke a pair of college information on day 4 of the championship, highlighted by an all-time CAA report within the ladies’s 400 freestyle relay between Flynn Truskett, Ellie Hunt ’28, Haley Lehman ’29 and Caroline Burgeson ’26.

The ladies’s workforce collected 1,647 factors, smashing the earlier highwater mark of 1,409. Tribe Head Coach Nate Kellogg was named the CAA Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season.

Day 4

The finals started with a third-place end from Claire Stuhlmacher ’28 within the ladies’s 1650 freestyle (16:45.71). It was the sixth-best efficiency at school historical past.

Julie Addison ’27 gained gold within the ladies’s 200 backstroke, ending in 1:56.35 which was good for No. 2 all-time. She turned the primary Tribe ladies’s swimmer to win the occasion since 2016.

In the ladies’s 100 freestyle, Burgeson led the Tribe with a time of 49.38, inserting second. Truskett completed proper behind her teammate, clocking in at 49.36 for a bronze medal. On the boys’s aspect of the 100 free, Aiden Bond ’27 took silver along with his time of 43.29.

Sophia Heilen ’26 was the person champion within the ladies’s 200 breaststroke with a time of two:11.97. Juhlin got here in third place with a time of two:14.95. The males’s 200 breaststroke was highlighted by a school-record efficiency from Toby Herzog ’29, who clocked in at 1:55.91. Herzog had beforehand damaged the report within the prelims earlier that morning with a time of 1:56.67.

Thomas Duncan ’28 additionally added a faculty report within the prelims of the boys’s 200 backstroke, ending in 1:43.14.

Sammy Randell’29 medaled within the ladies’s 200 butterfly, posting the No. 7 all-time efficiency with a time of two:01.22 for a silver medal. Lauren Klinefelter ’26 got here in a useless tie for third place, reaching the end line in 2:01.35.

The closing occasion of the night time was the 400 freestyle relay. The Tribe ladies posted the perfect efficiency at school and CAA historical past at 3:17.39, besting the earlier mark set on the 2023 CAA Championships by over two full seconds.

The males’s 400 free relay workforce positioned third, posting a time of two:56.45. That stands as fourth-fastest all-time.

Recapping the meet

William & Mary collected 32 complete medals on each the boys’s and girls’s aspect, together with seven gold medals.

First place
Ellie Hunt, Flynn Truskett, Haley Lehman, Tess Lankford — 800 freestyle relay (7:14.30)
Aiden Bond — 200 freestyle (1:35.03) SCHOOL RECORD
Lindsay Juhlin — 100 breaststroke (1:01.11)
Julie Addison — 100 backstroke (53.13)
Julie Addison — 200 backstroke (1:56.35)
Sophia Heilen — 200 breaststroke (2:11.97)
Flynn Truskett, Ellie Hunt, Haley Lehman, Caroline Burgeson — 400 freestyle relay (3:17.39) SCHOOL AND CAA RECORD

Second place
Julie Addison, Lindsay Juhlin, Lauren Klinefelter, Caroline Burgeson — 200 medley relay (1:38.47) SCHOOL RECORD
Tess Lankford — 200 IM (2:00.95)
Caroline Burgeson — 50 freestyle (22.64)

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