Ohio Swim and Dive Competes on the CSCAA National Invitational Championships

OCALA, Florida. – The Ohio swim group traveled to Ocala, Florida, this previous week (Mar. 12-14) and concluded their season on the 2026 CSCAA National Invitational Championships, on the FAST Facility. Overall, Ohio completed in 22^nd place, scoring 172 whole factors.

In the primary occasion, Thursday night time, the Bobcats’ 200-yard free relay, consisting of freshman Tori Wittenberg (Medford, N.J.), sophomore  Jordan Claypoole (Parkersburg, WV), junior Katie Buroker (Zionsville, Ind), and junior Melanie Schweikert (Maineville, Ohio), completed in 7^th place with a time of 1:32.65.

In the 50-yard backstroke, freshman Lily Baumgartner (Ada, Ohio) completed third within the comfort ultimate, thirteenth total, with a time of 25.37.

Wittenberg competed within the 50-yard freestyle comfort ultimate, incomes a seventh-place end, 17^th total, with a time of 23.31.

In finals on Friday night time, the Bobcat 200-yard medley relay, consisting of sophomore Leah Guess (Hartville, Ohio), Buroker, Claypoole, and Wittenberg, completed in twenty eighth place with a time of 1:43.68.

Two Bobcats swam within the 100-yard backstroke comfort ultimate, with Baumgartner ending second within the comfort ultimate, 12^th total, with a time of 53.97, and Schweikert ending fifth within the comfort ultimate, 15^th total, with a time of 54.40.

In the 800-yard freestyle relay, freshman Katrina Kollin (Dublin, Ohio), sophomore Ashlyn Morr (Galena, Ohio), freshman Jana Macik (Aldie, Va), and sophomore Juliana Slaninka (Mentor, Ohio) completed in 14th with a time of seven:23.56.

On the ultimate day of competitors, Schweikert began off the night time within the 200-yard backstroke ultimate, the place she completed in eighth place with a time of 1:57.41.

Macik competed within the 200-yard butterfly ultimate in ninth place with a time of two:01.78.

In the ultimate occasion of the night time, the 400-yard freestyle relay consisting of Morr, Wittenberg, Claypoole, and Buroker completed in 19^th place with a time of three:24.28.

To end out the 2025-2026 season, junior Zita Szoke and senior Casadie DiBetta will compete within the NCAA Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, March 18-21 at Georgia Tech University. Szoke and DiBetta will each compete in a number of occasions for the Bobcats.

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