Miami Swim and Dive Begins Sturdy at Oakland

Friday Swim & Dive Results
Miami leads Oakland, 124-62
Miami leads Denison, 124-62
 

Recaps courtesy of Miami’s Athletic Communications Department

ROCHESTER, Mich. — The Miami University swimming and diving workforce hit the highway to start out the 2026 calendar yr robust at Oakland University on Friday, Jan. 9. After day one, the RedHawk girls are main in opposition to each Oakland and Dennison with similar scores of 124-62. 

How it Happened:

• The RedHawks’ first meet of the 2026 calendar yr kicked off with the ladies’s 200-yard medley, the place the ladies’s A workforce completed first. Ella Ziegert, Madison Watschke, Natalie Gilson and Jenna Halliday turned in a mixed time of 1:42.08.
• Next was the ladies’s 400-yard IM, the place Gracie Gregory earned a time of 4:22.85, good for second place.
• Herbet completed first within the girls’s 200-yard freestyle, clocking a time of 1:48.78. Waechter completed in third place with a time of 1:51.31.
• The girls’s 100-yard butterfly adopted, as Ziegert got here in first by incomes a time of 55.66. Gilson was second, handing over a time of 56.03.
• After that got here the ladies’s 100-yard breaststroke, the place Gilson was third, clocking a time of 1:04.00.
• Next was the ladies’s 50-yard freestyle, the place Herbet completed first with a time of twenty-two.93. Waechter was third, incomes a time of 23.52.
• Audrey Conley was first within the girls’s 500-yard freestyle, incomes a time of 4:57.42. Casey Stephens was proper behind her in second, recording a time of 4:58.21.
• The girls’s 100-yard backstroke adopted, the place Ziegert completed second, recording a time of 54.81.
• The girls’s 400-yard freestyle relay was subsequent, the place the ladies’s A workforce completed first. Gracie Gregory, Waechter, Halliday and Herbet turned in a mixed time of three:22.01.
• For diving occasions, Mia Meinhardt earned a primary place end within the girls’s 1M dive, posting a rating of 266.80. Sydney Rice completed second with a rating of 272.20. Gretchen Osmun was third, incomes a rating of 245.30.

UP NEXT: The Miami swimming and diving workforce will hit the pool once more for day two of the meet in opposition to Oakland and Denison Saturday, Jan. 10. Events will start at 10 a.m.