Bucknell vs Loyola (MD)
- January 17, 2025
- Lewisburg, Pa.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Bucknell Athletics
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Clara Renner won three more events, Kyla Kelly won twice, and Natalie Penman led a dominant afternoon for the Bucknell divers as the Bison women’s swimming and diving team rolled to a 177-123 victory over Loyola on Friday at Kinney Natatorium. Bucknell won 11 of the 16 events and improved to 5-2 on the season.
Renner captured the 1,000-yard freestyle and swept both butterfly events to maintain her unbeaten record in dual-meet races and advance her season victory total to 16. The freshman swam the 100 fly for the second time this season and moved into the No. 6 spot in Bucknell history with a time of 55.49.
Kelly’s wins came in the 100 free and 200 individual medley, giving her 10 victories this season. Her win in the 200 IM was notable, as she edged Loyola star Lily Mead by .27 seconds. Mead had won the 200 backstroke and 200 breaststroke earlier in the day, accounting for two of the Greyhounds’ five wins.
Mead also led off Loyola’s winning 200 medley relay. The Greyhounds went 1-2 in the relay to open the meet, but the Bison quickly made up the deficit with back-to-back 1-2 finishes from Renner and Kelly Byrne in the 500 free, and Rylie Giles and Virginia Hastings in the 200 free.
Five of Bucknell’s wins came from first-year swimmers. In addition to Renner’s hat trick, Sydney Jee (100 breast) and Sofia Burns (200 back) both won close races.
Byrne, Giles, and Hastings finished 1-2-3 in the 500 free to solidify Bucknell’s lead with three races to go, and then the divers left no doubt.
Penman, Gina Hinthorn, and Reggie Frias swept the top three places on the 1-meter board, and Penman, Frias, and Meghan Catherwood went 1-2-3 in the 3-meter competition. Penman’s 3-meter score of 275.30 was a personal best by 16.75 points, and it vaulted her from eighth all the way up to fourth on Bucknell’s all-time list. Katie Hetherington set the school record in 2013, and then current Bison Frias, Catherwood, and Penman now occupy the next three spots.
The Bison avenged a dual-meet loss at Loyola last season, and they will now prep for their Senior Day meet against Lehigh next Saturday at Kinney Natatorium.
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Jack Krug led a big day for the Bucknell divers with a pair of wins, and Chris Kopac, Andy Dorsel, and Alex Crossing were also victorious for the Bison, but it wasn’t enough as a strong Loyola men’s swimming and diving squad jumped out to an early commanding lead and never looked back in 194-106 verdict on Friday afternoon at Kinney Natatorium.
Krug’s impressive performance included a personal-best score in the 1-meter diving competition. His 295.65 tally moved him into a tie for second on Bucknell’s all-time performers list. Adam Freeman’s school record of 318.15 has held up since 2005, and Krug is now level with David Magaro (2010) for the No. 2 spot. Krug had been fifth all-time with a previous PR of 281.90, set at last year’s Patriot League Championships.
Teammate Jackson Vinarub was second in the 1-meter event with a solid 280.13, and then on the 3-meter board it was nearly a dead heat between Krug (290.85) and Vinarub (290.70) for the top two spots, with Connor Thurston (268.65) making it a 1-2-3 Bucknell sweep.
Kopac notched his team-leading sixth victory of the season with a close win over Loyola’s Hayden Bartz in the 200-yard freestyle. Later in the day, Crossing out-touched Bartz by a mere .24 seconds in the 500 free in one of the best races of the day.
Dorsel closed out the individual events with a win in the 200 individual medley, with teammate Dante Buonadonna finishing second. Dorsel also had a runner-up finish in the 200 breaststroke.
Bucknell had a strong 50 free, with Finn Russell and Justin DiSanto taking second and third. DiSanto also came back to finish third in the 100 free.
Loyola, which improved to 6-2 on the season with its only losses to LSU and Navy, turned in five 1-2-3 finishes and went 1-2 in three other events.
Next up for the Bison is their Senior Day meet against Lehigh next Saturday at Kinney Natatorium.
Courtesy: Loyola Maryland Athletics
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Lily Mead, Joe Hayburn, Caleb Kelly and Michael Gozdan all won three events Friday as the Loyola University Maryland men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams returned to competition for the first time in 2025 with dual meets against Bucknell University.
The Greyhounds men topped the Bison, 194-106, but Bucknell got past the Loyola women, 177-123.
Mead was a double winner in the women’s 100 backstroke (55.11) and 200 breaststroke (2:18.66) while picking up a second-place finish in the 200 individual medley (2:06.85).
Gozdan swept the men’s breaststroke events, winning the 100 in 55.35 and the 200 with a time of 2:04.06.
Hayburn took his victories in the backstroke events, touching first in the 100 (48.57) and 200 (1:47.09).
Kelly was the winner of the men’s 50 (20.17) and 100 freestyles (45.00).
The Greyhounds also won all four relay events Friday afternoon, and they picked up four other individual first-place finishes.
Alex Plavoukos won the men’s 1,000 freestyle (9:32.96), and Patrick Hayburn took first in the men’s 100 butterfly (50.31).
Cameron Shinninck took first in the men’s 200 butterfly (1:50.33), and Haley Robinson was a winner in the women’s 50 freestyle (23.96).
The women’s team went one-two in the opening relay of the meet with Mead, Avery Stimmel, Robinson and Charley Tulio swimming 1:43.56 to win the 200 medley, while Kelly Bruen, Hannah Oslislo, Michaela Schultz and Fay Moser were second in 1:46.66.
Joe Hayburn, Brennan Coyle, Patrick Hayburn and Kelly took first in the men’s 200 medley (1:28.51), beating JD Moyer, Gozdan, Hans van Lierop and Henry Mueller’s time of 1:30.05.
CC Leoni (10:37.78), Ellie Davis (10:41.36) and Faith Karr (10:42.65) finished third, fourth and fifth for the women in the 1,000 freestyle, while Plavoukos led four Greyhoudns men in the top-five of the men’s version. Matthew Hughes swam 9:34.97 for second, while Jonah Goodman (9:41.81) and Kiernan Leary (9:49.96) were fourth and fifth.
Schultz led a three-four-five finish for the women in the 200 freestyle, swimming 1:55.62. Laura Latham finished in 1:57.33, while Gabrielle Jones was fifth in 1:57.47.
Hayden Bartz took second in the men’s 200 freestyle (1:41.50), edging Mueller by six-hundredths of a second, while Tyler Knurek was fifth in 1:42.05.
Mead won the women’s 100 backstroke, and Bruen was third in 58.64, while the men had a one-two-three sweep. Joe Hayburn led with the win, while Moyer was second (49.53) and Patrick Hayburn third (51.15).
Stimmel finished second in the women’s 100 breaststroke (1:05.86), and Noelle Hoffman raced 1:07.79 for fifth. Gozdan led another one-two-three sweep for the men in the 100 breastroke with Coyle finishing second (55.61) and Michael Venit third (56.70).
Riley Fried swam 2:05.45 for third in the women’s 200 butterfly, while Julia Mason took fourth in 2:07.84.
Shinnick paced the Greyhounds men to a one-two-three finish in the 200 butterfly. Luke Dwyer was second (1:50.76) and Harry Hearn third (1:51.47). Owen Glaser added a fifth-place finish in 1:52.75).
Robinson won the women’s 50 freestyle, while Tulio took third in 24.08 and Moser was fifth (24.55).
Kelly’s victory took the top spot in the men’s 50 freestyle, and van Lierop finished fourth in 21.47.
In the diving events, Cali Fasser was fourth in the women’s 1-meter with 221.70 points, while Kassidy Georgevich took fourth in the 3-meter (235.95) and Fasser was fifth (231.75). Sam Hersick and Thomas McCarthy were third and fourth in the men’s 1-meter with 277.50 and 262.65 points, and they finished fourth and fifth with 236.55 and 235.65 points in the 3-meter.
Robinson came back in the 100 freestyle to finish second in 52.92, just two-hundredths of a second in front of Moser’s 52.94. Stimmel finished fifth in 53.08.
Coyle was second to Kelly’s win in the 100 freestyle, swimming 45.65. Patrick Hayburn and Knurek were fourth and fifth in 46.64 and 46.99.
Lauren Lane swam 2:05.15 for second in the 200 backstroke, and Samantha Yerkes finished fourth in 2:08.49.
Moyer went 1:50.09 for second in the men’s 200 backstroke behind Joe Hayburn’s win, and Mueller was third in 1:51.27.
Mead won the women’s 200 breaststroke in 2:18.66, and Hoffman took fourth for Loyola in 2:25.45. Following Gozdan in the men’s 200 breaststroke, Venit finished third (2:05.54), and Zach Eisenmann was fourth (2:05.84).
Fried, Leoni and Karr were third (5:12.49), fourth (5:13.93) and fifth (5:14.34), respectively, in the women’s 500 freestyle, while Bartz (4:35.71), Hughes (4:39.14) and Goodman (4:42.85) took second, third and fourth in the men’s 500 freestyle.
Schultz finished second in the women’s 100 butterfly with a time of 57.34, followed by Mason and Latham in third (58.16) and fourth (58.25).
The Loyola men too first through fourth in the 100 butterfly, led by Patrick Hayburn’s win. Hearn was two-hundredths of a second back in second (50.33), while Coyle and Shinnick were third and fourth separated by eight-hundredths, 50.60-50.69.
Owen Glaser led the men in the 200 individual medley with a third-place finish in 1:55.05. Dywer was fourth (1:55.08), and Floyd Conlin took fifth (1:56.10).
Loyola closed the meet with a pair of relay wins as Stimmel, Robinson, Moser and Tulio went 3:31.94 for the victory on the women’s side of the 400 freestyle. Joe Hayburn, Knurek, Mueller and Kelley swam 3:02.69 for the men’s victory.
