Miami (OH) vs Kenyon
- January 20, 2024
- Oxford, Ohio
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Miami (OH) Athletics
OXFORD, Ohio– The Miami University men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams both had victories today against Kenyon College. The women won 210-90 while the men won 168-30.
How It Happened:
- The day started with the 200-yard medley relay with wins from both the men and women. Miami women’s A team, Madeline Padavic, Sara Lahrach-Sanchez, McKenzie Reid and Nicole Maier finished first with a combined time of 1:38.80 alongside the B team, Jenna Halliday, Emma Schueler, Honor Brodie-Foy and Kaylin Herbet coming in at 1:41.55
- For the men, the A team took second with Owen Blazer, Adrian Dulay, Henju Duvenhage and Jack Herczeg finishing in 1:28.56 alongside the B team in third with Clark Pabst, Benjamin Eichberg, Gabriel Perseguin and Ian Kmiliauskis finishing with a combined time of 1:30.83.
- The women claimed the top three spots in the 1000-yard freestyle with Casey Stephens in first (10:12.18), Katheryn Antonowich in second (10:18.73) and Audrey Conley in third (10:26.82). For the men, Yonatan Rosin finished first with a time of 9:26.81.
- The men and women had top finishes in the 200-yard freestyle as well with Maier in first (1:46.66) alongside Greta Kolbeck in second (1:47.95). Bryce Menchhofer took first (1:39.32) while Uroš Djokovic finished second (1:39.80).
- In the 100-yard backstroke, Padavic finished first (52.88), Halliday in second (56.35) and Reid in third (56.56). For the men, Duvenhage claimed first (47.65).
- Dulay had two first-place solo finishes today, first in the 100-yard breaststroke (55.94 and again in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:01.72).
- Brodie-Foy also produced two first-place finishes, in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.24 and again in the 100-yard butterfly (54.97).
- The women took all three top places again first, in the 100-yard freestyle with Padavic in first (50.14), Herbet in second (50.57) and Waechter in third (50.93) as well as in the 200-yard backstroke seeing Chrisna Bezuidenhout in first place (1:59.48), Mady Bachmeier in second (2:02.87) and Halliday in third (2:03.36).
- Other first-place finishers today were Aidan Jacobs in the 200-yard butterfly (1:48.74), Menchhofer in the 500-yard freestyle (4:36.03), Duvenhage in the 100-yard butterfly (47.31), Maier in the 400 Yard IM (4:15.86) and Allen Cotton in the 400-yard IM (3:58.33).
- Second-place finishers were Lahrach-Sanchez in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:02.14) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:19.51), Bachmeier in the 200-yard butterfly (2:03.80), Waechter in the 50-yard freestyle (23.54), Kmiliauskis in the 50-yard freestyle (20.49) as well as the 100-yard freestyle (44.40), Kolbeck in the 500-yard freestyle (4:51.08), Reid in the 100-yard butterfly (56.12) and Perseguin in the 100-yard butterfly (47.80).
- Finally, other third-place finishes came from Eichberg in the 100-yard breaststroke (56.43), Cotton in the 200-yard butterfly (1:49.95), Taylor Connors in the 50-yard freestyle (23.76), Herczeg in the 50-yard freestyle (20.85), Mason Miller in the 200-yard backstroke (1:50.36), Schueler in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:19.77), Paul Brosky in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:04.55) as well as the 400 yard IM (4:04.05) and Antonowich in the 500-yard freestyle (5:00.36).
- For diving events, Mia Meinhardt took first in the 1-meter dive (305.18), along with Vivian Niekamp in second (287.70) and Gretchen Osmun in third (285.38). For the men, Jackson Miller placed second (296.48), David Burke in third (294.60) and Victor Hearn in fourth (291.75).
- In the 3-meter dive, Meinhardt took first again (305.55), Niekamp in second (270.23), and Nora Kowalski in third (258.08). For the men, Miller took second (326.48), Hearn in third (322.95) and Burke in fourth (304.43).
- The meet concluded with the 400-yard freestyle relay. Miami women’s A team took first place with a team of Brodie-Foy, Waechter, Herbet and Padavic with a time of 3:22.61. The men’s A team finished second, with Kmiliauskis, Herczeg, Perseguin and Duvenhage finishing in 2:59.15
Up Next:
The men will next compete on Friday, Jan. 26 at 1 p.m. against Ball State at home. The women will compete again on Friday, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. against Akron at home.
Courtesy: Kenyon Athletics
OXFORD, Ohio — The Kenyon College women’s swimming and diving team won four events Saturday and turned in more than a handful of season-best times, but it could not overcome the NCAA Division I Miami (OH) University RedHawks, who cruised to a 210-90 victory at Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center.
Kenyon’s top performer of the afternoon was junior Jennah Fadely, who swept the breaststroke events. In the 100-yard version, she posted a time of 1:01.13, which was the top time in the race and also her season-best. In the 200-yard version, Fadely turned in a winning time of 2:15.22, which was about five seconds better than her previous season-best time and checks in as the third-best time this season among all NCAA Division III swimmers.
Kenyon’s two other event wins came from first-years Bengisu Caymaz and Sofia Giordano. Caymaz got through the 500-yard freestyle with an impressive time of 4:50.39. That was not only a season-best, but the best in NCAA Division III this season. Giordano led all swimmers in the 200-yard butterfly, cranking out a time of 2:03.65, which was another season-best.
Ceyda Yazici tacked on a runner-up finish for the Owls in the 400-yard individual medley, as she touched in 4:25.21.
Third-place showing were registered by Caymaz, Gabrielle Wei and Celia Ford. Caymaz, in addition to her win in the 500, finished the 200-yard freestyle in 1:49.75, just missing her season-best of 1:49.65. Wei followed up Fadely in the 100-yard breaststroke, taking bronze with a season-best time of 1:02.95. Ford rounded out Kenyon’s top-three swims with a 56.92 in the 100-yard butterfly.
The Owls now have some time away from competition until they host Case Western Reserve University on February 3, in what will be their last dual meet of the season.
OXFORD, Ohio — Tallying seven event wins Saturday, the Kenyon College men’s swimming and diving team gave NCAA Division I Miami (OH) University all it could handle. The host RedHawks, however, were able to counter Kenyon’s surge and come away with a 168-130 dual meet home win.
A significant chunk of Kenyon’s points came from senior diver Israel Zavaleta, who went undefeated on the day. He won the one-meter event with a score of 391.35 and went on to complete the sweep with a winning score of 391.80 in the three-meter competition.
Kenyon had four more multi-event winners and three of them competed in the meet-opening 200-yard medley relay. Yurii Kosian, Aleksa Dobric, Marko Krtinic and Djordje Dragojlovic teamed up to post a winning time of 1:28.47 for the Owls.
As the meet went on, Dobric claimed victory in the 50-yard freestyle (20.46), Dragojlovic won the 100-yard freestyle (44.01) and Kosian was victorious in the 200-yard backstroke (1:46.81). Of those three, Dragojlovic’s time went down as a season-best.
Following the Owls winning relay, James Tracey and Peter Landis took second- and third-place spots, respectively, in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Tracey clocked in at 9:38.34 and Landis hit the wall in 9:40.19.
Kosian then posted a third-place time of 1:40.27 in the 200-yard freestyle, which was followed by second and third-place times from Dragojlovic and Daniel Brooks in the 100-yard backstroke. Dragojlovic clocked in at 48.54 and Brooks posted a 49.82.
In the next two events, the Owls got second-place swims from Noel Tumbasz and Ethan Manske. Tumbasz took silver in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 56.30 and Manske was runner-up in the 200-yard butterfly, stopping the clock at 1:49.44. Later in the meet, Tumbasz would register another second-place showing in the 200-yard breaststroke, finishing in 2:01.80.
Tracey and Matthew Weiner logged yet another 2-3 finish for the Owls in the 500-yard freestyle with Tracey taking second in 4:39.95 and Weiner taking third in 4:41.98. Then, rounding out Kenyon’s top-three finishers in individual events, Krtinic took third in the 100-yard butterfly (48.62) and Noah Hargrove took second in the 400-yard individual medley (3:59.18).
Wrapping up the meet for Kenyon was the winning 400-yard freestyle relay team of Dragojlovic, Krtinic, Brooks and Dobric. That quartet clocked in at 2:58.96.
