Miami (OH) Women, Kenyon Men Victorious In Split Dual

Miami (OH) vs Kenyon

• Friday, January 27, 2023
• Gambier, Ohio
• SCY (25 yards)
• Results
• Team Scores
  • Women: Miami 169, Kenyon 130
  • Men: Kenyon 177, Miami 123

Courtesy: Miami Athletics

The Miami University swimming & diving teams split in a visiting meet at Kenyon on Friday, Jan. 27. While the women’s team ended victorious at 169-130, the men’s team fell 177-123.

How It Happened:

• The meet kicked off with the 200 medley relay, where the women’s A relay team of Madeline Padavic, Sara Lahrach-Sanchez, Honor Brodie-Foy and Nicole Maier finished second with a combined time of 1:40.88. The men’s B relay team also finished second, with Mason Miller, Benjamin Eichberg, Jack Clouatre and Matt Fetterman earning a combined time of 1:31.34.
• Evan Kindseth and Yonatan Rosin led times in the men’s 1650 freestyle, with Kindseth placing first (15:49.25) and Rosin placing second (15:51.25). In the women’s 1000 freestyle, Audrey Conley placed first with a time of 10:16.84.
• The Miami women’s team swept the 200 freestyle, with Maier in first (1:45.54), Greta Kolbeck in second (1:49.82) and Camila Lins De Mello in third (1:51.99). Uroš Djokovic came in second for the men’s team, earning a time of 1:38.93.
• Padavic won the women’s 100 backstroke with a time of 53.58, earning a new pool record. Angelina Cakuls landed in second with a time of 56.14. Owen Blazer also took second for the men’s team, earning a time of 48.50.
• Lahrach-Sanchez and Adrian Dulay both placed second in the 100 breaststroke, Lahrach-Sanchez for the RedHawks’ women’s team (1:05.19) and Dulay for the men’s team (55.70).
• In the women’s 200 butterfly, Maggie Patterson took second place (2:03.64) and Emily Rinker took third (2:04.19). Tommy Frye took second for the men’s team (1:50.27) and Clouatre took third (1:52.11).
• Brodie-Foy finished second in the women’s 50 freestyle (23.32), followed by Jenna Halliday in third (23.56). Jack Herczeg finished second in the men’s event with a time of 20.74.
• The women’s 100 freestyle had a first-place finish from Maier (48.41) and a third-place finish from Brodie-Foy (51.14). For the men’s team, Herczeg placed second with a time of 45.32.
• Cakuls earned the top time in the women’s 200 backstroke (2:00.47), while Reese Dismukes landed in third (2:02.23). The men’s event had Zach Bann taking second (1:48.13) and Blazer taking third (1:48.87).
• In the men’s 200 breaststroke, Dulay took first (2:01.01) and Paul Brosky took third (2:05.95). The highest placement for the women’s team came from Emma Schueler in fourth (2:22.39).
• Kolbeck placed first in the women’s 500 freestyle (4:55.98), with Katheryn Antonowich in third (5:02.45). For the men’s team, Rosin placed second (4:34.87) followed by Frye in third (4:38.88).
• The women’s 100 butterfly had a win from Brodie-Foy (55.20), while the men’s team had Henju Duvenhage in second (49.34) and Clouatre in third (49.49).
• Maier took first in the women’s 200 IM (1:59.19) followed by Jordyn Homoki in second (2:05.10). The men’s team landed Bann in first (1:52.30) and Allen Cotton in third (1:52.98).
• The meet’s final swimming event was the 200 freestyle relay. The Miami women’s A relay team of Taylor Connors, Halliday, Julia Waechter and Kolbeck finished second, earning a combined time of 1:34.35. The men’s relay A team also placed second, with Duvenhage, Herczeg, Miller and Fetterman landing a combined time of 1:22.07.
• For the RedHawks women’s diving team, Sydney Rice took first in both of her events, scoring 302.25 points in the 1 meter dive and 319.95 points in the 3 meter dive. The 1 meter also had a second-place finish from Mia Meinhardt (281.70 points), while the 3 meter placed Madeline Lutzko in second (278.55) and Lauren Melia in third (260.33).
• John Dymond placed second in both events for the Miami men’s diving team, earning 313.50 points in the 1 meter dive and 326.70 points in the 3 meter dive. Victor Hearn took third in both the 1 meter (308.55 points) and 3 meter (308.55).

Up Next:
The women’s team will return home to face Toledo in Miami’s first home meet of 2023 on Saturday, Jan. 28. Meet start time is set for 3 p.m.

Courtesy: Kenyon Athletics

GAMBIER, Ohio — The Kenyon College men’s swimming and diving program closed out its regular season with a 177-123 win over the NCAA Division I Miami University RedHawks, clinching the program’s best dual record in 50 years in the process.

The victory gave the Owls an 8-1 record ahead of postseason competition, Kenyon’s best mark since 1962, when the team went 10-1. Eight wins doubles Kenyon’s total from a year ago, when the team compiled a 4-1 record. Additionally, the win total is the program’s best mark since going 8-4 in back-to-back seasons in 2005 and 2006.

The Owls set the tone in the afternoon’s first race, setting a pool record in the 200-yard medley relay. Yurii Kosian, Luis Weekes, Cherantha De Silva, and Djordje Dragojlovic completed the cycle in 1:27.52, 0.01 seconds faster than the previous record, which also included a leg from Weekes, set during the 2019-20 season. The team’s time was good for an NCAA ‘B’ cut.

On a day when Kenyon celebrated 13 senior student-athletes, the team racked up 13 wins over 16 events. Four seniors contributed to the Owls’ victories, and Bryan Fitzgerald led the way with two individual event wins.

The senior clocked a 1:38.82 in the 200-yard freestyle, winning the race by 0.11 seconds and clearing the ‘B’ cut threshold. Later in the dual, Fitzgerald added to his freestyle finishes with a win in the 500-yard iteration, clocking a 4:32.90.

Kenyon claimed all but one freestyle race, the 1650-yard iteration, and swept both backstroke and butterfly races.

De Silva, another senior, added a second win with a 20.14-second sprint in the 50-yard freestyle, good for another ‘B’ cut. Dragojlovic, a first-year, tied a team-best by contributing to three event victories after, adding to the two relays and clinching the 100-yard freestyle in 44.96 seconds, which was a ‘B’ cut. He swam the third leg in Kenyon’s 200-yard freestyle relay win, pairing with Marko Krtinic, senior Mart Niehoff, and Daniel Brooks to clock a 1:20.91, clearing a ‘B’ cut once again.

Krtinic was another three-event winner for Kenyon, topping the 100- and 200-yard butterfly leaderboards. The junior cleared ‘B’ cuts at both distances, finishing with times of 47.66 and 1:48.59, respectively.

Yurii Kosian rounded out the Owls to win three events by sweeping the 100- and 200- yard backstroke races. The junior’s times fell under the ‘B’ cut threshold at both distances, clocking a 47.89 in the 100 and a 1:46.05 in the 200.

Luis Weekes added an individual event title to his win in the dual’s first race. The senior swam a 54.55 in the 100-yard breaststroke, claiming the victory and finishing fast enough for a ‘B’ cut.

The Owls also soared past the RedHawks in the air as Israel Zavaleta paced the field at both the one- and three-meter heights. The junior won the one-meter contest with a score of 375.08 before scoring 405.15 from three meters up. Drew Albrecht, a senior, finished third in the three-meter event with a score of 301.65.

Up next for Kenyon is the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships. The Owls are looking to get back on top after finishing second last season. Defending champion Denison University will host the four-day competition in Granville, Ohio, starting on Wednesday, Feb. 8.

GAMBIER, Ohio — Following a Senior Day celebration, the Kenyon College women’s swimming and diving team broke a couple records and gave NCAA Division I Miami University all it could handle. The visiting RedHawks managed to hang on, though, logging a 169-130 dual meet win at Steen Natatorium on Friday afternoon.

Right from the start, two Kenyon seniors made the day even more memorable as they swam legs on the winning 200-yard medley relay team, one that set a pool record and checked in with the second fastest NCAA Division III time of the season. Olivia Smith, a senior, led things off and Alexandra White, also a senior, swam anchor for the team that clocked in at 1:39.92. They paired with sophomores Jennah Fadely and Celia Ford to top the previous pool record of 1:41.99 set by a Kenyon quartet during the 2016-17 season.

Miami responded by winning the next three individual events, but Fadely got back in the pool to halt the RedHawks’ momentum. She did so by taking the top spot in the 100-yard breaststroke. Her time of 1:00.36 was not only a pool record, but also a Kenyon varsity record and the top time in NCAA Division III this season. Fadely surpassed the old Kenyon pool record of 1:01.47 set by Julia Wilson in the 2016-17 season and topped her own Kenyon varsity record, which was 1:00.75 set at last year’s NCAA Division III Championship.

That sparked a streak of three straight event wins for the Owls. Senior Ania Axas went on to win the 200-yard butterfly in 2:02.10 and White followed up with a winning time of 22.83 in the 50-yard freestyle. While Axas’ time just missed a season-best, White’s time was both a season-best and personal career-best. The Kenyon surge left the Owls trailing the RedHawks by just two points at 66-64.

Miami won the next two events and increased its lead to 20 points over the Owls. Fadely, however, stepped up again and put another Kenyon win on the board. This time, she took the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:14.34, which was another career-best. With Gabrielle Wei taking a runner-up finish (2:15.84) in the same event, the Owls pulled within seven points of the RedHawks.

Kenyon’s next win didn’t come until the meet-ending 200-yard freestyle relay. In that race, White teamed up with Gwen Eisenbeis, senior Ella Campbell and Lisa Torrecillas-Jouault. That quartet clocked in at 1:33.21.

In diving, Miami added to its total. The RedHawks took the top two spots on the one-meter board and the top four spots on the three-meter board. Katarina Ilic was Kenyon’s top diver, placing third on the one-meter (259.88) and fourth on the three-meter (242.48).

Prior to Kenyon’s win in the final relay, Miami won three straight to put the meet out of reach for the Owls.

The Kenyon women, who finalized their dual meet record at 7-2, will now turn their attention toward the North Coast Athletic Conference Championship, a four-day meet that begins Wednesday, February 8 at Denison University.