Girls’s Swim/Dive Posts Nationwide Runner-Up End on Day 2 of NCAA Championships

The Hope College ladies’s swimming and diving workforce unlocked a little bit of Nineties historical past on Thursday night on the NCAA Division III Championships, attaining two milestones that came about earlier than anybody on the present roster was even born.


The Flying Dutch recorded their highest end within the 200-yard freestyle relay in 32 years with a faculty file, whereas senior Katie Hermann (Canton, Michigan / Mercy) grew to become the primary Hope swimmer since 1994 to earn All-America honors within the 400 particular person medley.


Hope sits in ninth place on the meet’s midway level with 75 factors. The Flying Dutch are in search of their second straight Top-10 exhibiting on the NCAA Championships. 


The 200 freestyle relay workforce of senior Greta Gidley (Franklin, Michigan / Mercy), freshman Claudia Busse (Grand Haven, Michigan / Grand Haven), senior Laurel Wasiniak (Northville, Michigan / Northville) and senior Bella Turner (Chelsea, Michigan / Chelsea) earned First Team All-American honors and completed second within the occasion with a faculty file time of 1:31.44, reducing the mark by .31 seconds. 


The earlier faculty file of 1:31.75 was held by Gidley, Lauren Ryle, Turner and Wasiniak from a season in the past.


The second-place exhibiting within the relay tied the best end in program historical past, which was achieved in 1994 by the quartet of Susan Looman, Sara Looman, Denice Masselink and Sarah DeWitt.


NYU gained the occasion with an NCAA Division III file time of 1:29.38, marking the primary time a workforce has gone underneath the 1:30.00 mark.


Gidley started the relay with a gap 50 of 23.04, reducing the varsity file by one-hundredth of a second. Busse, Wasiniak and Turner added to the hassle with splits underneath 23 seconds. 


Wasiniak was the earlier file holder within the 50 free, posting a 23.05 in the course of the MIAA Championships final month.


Hermann earned second-team All-America honors within the 400 particular person medley, ending sixth within the comfort remaining with a time of 4:28.88. She joined Kristen Hoving as Hope’s solely All-Americans within the 400 IM. Hoving positioned third on the NCAA meet in 1994. 


Sophomore Emme D’Errico (Farmington Hills, Michigan / Farmington) additionally competed within the 400 IM comfort remaining however was disqualified in the course of the race. D’Errico posted the 12th-fastest time within the morning prelims at 4:26.71. 


In diving, junior Laura Zupancic (Fort Collins, Colorado / Liberty Common) positioned 18th within the one-meter prelims with a rating of 389.50 and was solely 4 factors shy of qualifying for the night finals. Freshman Grace Dawson (Jackson, Michigan / Western) additionally represented Hope within the occasion, tallying 368.45 factors over her 11-dive routine to rank twenty sixth. 


Day 3 of the four-day meet on the IU Natatorium with be held on Friday, March 20, with 10 a.m. prelims and 6 p.m. finals. 


The Flying Dutch will compete in all 5 occasions on tomorrow’s schedule, together with the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays. 


Emme D’Errico will compete within the 200 butterfly, whereas Claudia Busse and freshman Makenzie Baldwin (Holland, Michigan / West Ottawa) will race within the 100 backstroke. The trio of Bella Turner, senior Madi Remenschneider (Holland, Michigan / West Ottawa) and Greta Gidley are entered into the 100 breaststroke occasion.