Women’s Swimming Sweeps Gryphons Fall Quad Meet; Rau Posts Historic 400 I.M. Swim

BRONXVILLE, N.Y. – After welcoming a trio of opponents to Bronxville on each Friday and Sunday, the Sarah Lawrence Women’s Swimming crew swept the Gryphons Fall 2025 Quad Meet. The girls’s crew bested guests from Baruch College, Lehman College and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) whereas the lads’s crew obtained spectacular particular person performances from upperclassmen Patrick Rau and Andrew Kim, every incomes podium finishes.

How it Happened

The girls opened with a runner-up end within the 400 medley relay at 4:29.50 earlier than Ava Greengrass set the tone in distance occasions, profitable the five hundred freestyle in 6:15.34 and later including a 1000 freestyle victory in 12:58.75. Olivia Huie (14:12.58) and Jocelyn Engel (14:57.26) rounded out a clear sweep of the highest three within the 1000. Breaststroke produced one other run of podium finishes with Julia Maecker putting second within the 100 breast in 1:23.98 and Cordelia Bay following in 1:25.60 earlier than Bay continued a powerful day with a 200 breast win in 3:05.59 and Aubrey Rosser took second in 3:08.94. Backstroke remained a dependable scoring occasion as Ella Hernan (2:23.21) and Kirsten Eads (2:24.14) took second and third within the 200, and the pair exchanged locations within the 100 with Eads at 1:04.13 and Hernan at 1:04.37.

The middle-distance group continued the momentum with Eads profitable the 200 IM in 2:28.09 and Bay putting third in 2:37.41. Keilani Talma delivered three of the crew’s most decisive swims, ending second within the 100 freestyle at 57.81 and later profitable the 100 butterfly in 1:02.23, earlier than including one other victory within the 200 freestyle at 2:08.29, adopted intently by Hernan in second at 2:09.42. The relay squads contributed main factors as properly, with the 200 freestyle relay taking the win in 1:48.12 and the 400 freestyle relay closing the meet with a first-place end in 3:54.84. In dash occasions, Amelie Burg (26.94) and Hannah Drum (27.03) secured second and third within the 50 free.

On the lads’s aspect, Rau put collectively one of many strongest particular person showings of the meet with a pair of runner-up finishes, touching the wall with occasions of 5:34.18 within the 500 freestyle and a couple of:18.05 within the 200 butterfly. Kim added one other spectacular dash consequence by taking second within the 50 freestyle at 22.22, rounding out a productive weekend total for the lads’s squad.

Up Next

The Gryphons will return to motion as they wrap up the autumn semester with a twin meet in opposition to the York College Cardinals on Saturday, December sixth. The groups will face off on the Campbell Sports Center at 1:00 p.m. as the ladies’s program appears to be like to maintain its unblemished report in opposition to the Cardinals and the lads’s crew appears to be like to proceed a powerful season.