Runnin’ Bulldogs Battle Davidson in Senior Day Swimming Motion

BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – The Gardner-Webb swimming workforce took to Bost Pool for the ultimate time in 2025-2026 on Friday night, celebrating this system’s Senior Day in opposition to Davidson

In the general scores, the Gardner-Webb males have been defeated 134-124, whereas the Gardner-Webb girls fell by a remaining of 138-123. The Runnin’ Bulldogs did nevertheless submit some stable particular person occasions and data all through the meet

The first win of the day for GWU got here within the males’s 200-yard medley relay. Highlighted by senior Justin Bender, the workforce of Bender, Carter Redelman, Jacob Jensen and Luke Wesson topped the charts with a time of 1:29.36. The Runnin’ Bulldogs took the time two occasions within the occasion, with Agustin Orechia, Dan Bennett, Manuel Brandner and Porter Lane in second with a time of 1:31.24

Over within the males’s 50-yard freestyle, Jensen returned to take first place in 20.72 seconds, whereas Wesson was third place in 21.18 seconds for Gardner-Webb

Bender and Bennett have been again within the pool afterward to compete within the males’s 100-yard breaststroke. Bender gained the occasion in 56.25 seconds, whereas Bennett was third in 57.77 seconds. Bender continued a superb senior day by additionally successful the lads’s 200-yard breaststroke in 2:03.49

Orechia and Redelman have been again to compete within the males’s 100-yard backstroke. Orechia posted a second place run in 49.38 seconds, whereas Redelman was third in 49.61 seconds. Orechcia moreover, gained the lads’s 200-yard backstroke in 1:48.29 as nicely

Among the seniors competing on Friday for Gardner-Webb was Hannah Routh, who scored a 3rd place run within the girls’s 200-yard freestyle. Routh touched the wall with a remaining time of 1:56.29. She’d make her senior day a memorable one within the girls’s 100-yard butterfly, successful that occasion in 56.05 seconds, whereas teammates Jillian Hawkins and Jenna Valentine have been second and third in 57.54 seconds and 57.95 seconds every

Among the winners on the day for GWU was Dakota Townley. Townley was scored first place within the girls’s 100-yard breaststroke, placing down a time of 1:03.80 and successful by practically two full seconds. She’d additionally take first within the girls’s 200-yard breaststroke in 2:18.32, successful by practically 5 fill seconds

Slawka Ndubuisi picked two particular person wins on the day for the Runnin’ Bulldogs. The Columbia, S.C. native gained the ladies’s 50-yard freestyle in a blistering 23.25 seconds, then the ladies’s 100-yard freestyle in 52.05 seconds

Of the three seniors, Sara-Michael Jann additionally had a memorable end. Jann positioned third within the girls’s 400-yard IM, posting a time of 4:38.31. Gardner-Webb teammate Kaitlyn Estes gained the occasion in 4:35.66

To cap off some sturdy particular person performances for GWU, Luke Weber took victory within the males’s 400-yard IM, recording a time of three:59.75, the one swimmer within the occasion to complete in beneath 4:00

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