William & Mary vs Old Dominion
- January 11, 2020
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Results
Courtesy: William & Mary Athletics
The William & Mary women’s swimming won its fourth-straight dual meet on Saturday, getting the spring semester underway with a 193-101 road win over ancient rival Old Dominion. The Tribe evened its season ledger at 4-4 with the win, while the Lady Monarchs fell to 3-2 on the year.
How it Happened
– The Tribe won 12 of 14 swimming events on the day, and claimed 33 of 42 total top-three finishes across the afternoon.
– The day started off with the 200 medley relay, where W&M swept the top three spots. The winning team included Anna Kenna (Chantilly, Va.), Annie Tuttle (Alexandria, Va.), Brooke Lamoureux (Virginia Beach, Va.), and Missy Cundiff (Leesburg, Va.), combining to finish in 1:45.65.
– Cundiff also swam on the victorious 400 free relay team, taking the second leg alongside Inez Olszewski (New York, N.Y.), Katie Stevenson (Wilton, Conn.), and Megan Bull (Hillsborough, N.J.). The quartet cleared the 16 lengths of the pool in a time of 3:30.50.
– Individually, the junior Bull was the only double-winner on the day. She first won the 200 free in 1:52.49, and then came back to take the 100 free in 52.38. That victory in the 200 pushed her over 300 points on the season, and she becomes just the seventh swimmer in program history with three or more 300+ point seasons in her career. Bull’s second win was the 40th of her career, and she is now just 6.75 points away from 1,000 in less than three full seasons.
– The sophomore Cundiff also continue to impress this season, remaining undefeated with her 10th win in the 50 free with a time of 23.51. Cundiff is a perfect 8-0 in the Tribe’s dual meets in the short sprint, and also won both the prelims and the finals of the event at the West Virginia Invitational in November.
– Her classmate Kenna won her signature event, the 100 back, stopping the clock in 57.80 seconds.
– Junior Tara Tiernan (West Hartford, Conn.) gave the Tribe a sweep of the backstrokes, finishing first in the 200 back with a time of 2:04.99.
– W&M also swept the butterflies. In the 200 fly, sophomore Rebecca Rogers (Richmond, Va.) swam 2:07.27 for her first win of the season, before junior Madeline High (Raleigh, N.C.) took the 100 fly in 58.27 seconds.
– The freshman class accounted for the Tribe’s final three victories. Grace Tramack (Palo Alto, Calif.), the CAA’s November Rookie of the Month, made a strong start towards the January award by taking the 1,000 free in 10:24.42, before Peyton Proffitt (Richmond, Va.) won the 200 breast in 2:22.52. In the very next event, Elizabeth Intihar (Columbus, Ohio) touched the wall in 5:06.61 to win the 500 free. All three freshmen won for a class-best third time this season.
William & Mary returns home next weekend, Saturday, Jan. 18, hosting Davidson at 12 p.m. at the Rec Center.
The William & Mary men’s swimming had one of its strongest outings of the season on Saturday afternoon, downing Old Dominion on the road 212-68, for its fifth in a row. The Tribe improved to 6-1 on the year with the win, its eight-straight season with at least six wins, while the Monarchs fell to 1-3 overall.
How it Happened
– W&M dominated in every event, winning all 14 swimming events and taking 37 of 42 top-three spots across those events. Overall, the Tribe finished just 10 points off of scoring its maximum-possible, en route to recording its biggest-ever margin of victory in the series against ODU (144 points).
– The Tribe’s day included three dual-meet records, two in individual events and in the 400 free relay. With two meets still remaining in the regular season, W&M has broken 11 dual-meet records, four Rec Center pool records, and one school record so far in 2019-20.
– First up was the 100 back, where senior Colin Demers (Virginia Beach, Va.) stopped the clock in 48.86 seconds to tie the dual-meet record originally set by Will Manion ’16 in November of 2014.
– Later in the 100 fly, fellow senior Jack Doherty (Middletown, Conn.) reset his own dual-meet record, swimming 48.58 seconds for the win. This is the fourth time this season that Doherty has broken the dual-meet record in his signature event, most recently before Saturday at 49.00 seconds in late October against Towson.
– The final race of the day was the 400 free relay, where the team of Ian Thompson (Alexandria, Va.), Colin Wright (Williamsburg, Va.), Doherty, and Graham Hertweck (Greensboro, N.C.) teamed up to swim 3:00.95 and win by nearly eight seconds. That broke the previous record of 3:02 flat that the Tribe set last year against VMI on Senior Day. It was also the 12th-fastest single race ever at W&M.
– W&M’s first relay of the day also turned in a fast performance, setting the tone from the very first race. Demers led-off the 200 medley relay and was followed by Ian Bidwell (Pelham, N.Y.), Doherty, and Wright to a total time of 1:29.64, the 10th-fastest performance in school history.
– Doherty also had a second individual win in the 200 free, reaching the wall first in 1:40.73. He was one of four Tribe seniors with two individual wins on the day.
– Wright swept the 50 and the 100 free, timing 20.04 in the former and then coming back after the diving break to stop the clock in 44.44 in the longer event. He now has 65 wins in his career, and 13 this season alone.
– Distance ace Chris Balbo (Short Hills, N.J.) started his meet off with yet another win in the 1,000 free, timing 9:30.89, and then came back to win the 200 breast in 2:05.99 in the back half of the meet. Balbo’s wins give him a team-best 15 victories on the season, and breaks a tie with Hall-of-Famer George Collins ’70 for seventh on W&M’s all-time wins list with 63.
– Doctoral student Ben Skopic (Marriottsville, Md.) pulled off an impressive double win at the back end of the meet, starting with a victory in the 500 free in 4:43.18. After a rest of just one event, he was back in the pool for the 200 IM, and touched first in that race as well in 1:53.04.
– The Tribe also got a win from the senior Bidwell, who won the 100 breast in 57.04 seconds.
– In the 200 back, senior Lee Bradley (Crestwood, Ky.) recorded his first victory of the season, stopping the clock in 1:52.47.
– Rounding out the winners was freshman Noah Fields (Williamsburg, Va.), who swam 1:51.32 to take the 200 fly and pick up his first collegiate victory.
William & Mary returns home next weekend, Saturday, Jan. 18, hosting Davidson at 12 p.m. at the Rec Center.
Courtesy: Old Dominion Athletics
NORFOLK, Va. – Old Dominion University swimming and diving fell to William and Mary Saturday afternoon at the J.C. Scrap Chandler Pool. The women lost 193-101, while the men fell 212-68.
The Monarchs began the meet by sweeping the diving events. AJ Caruso won the 1-meter dive with a score of 227.55, Amanda Whepley took second with a score of 225.90 and Kaleigh Everette was third with 168.75 points. Josh Thomas won the men’s 1-meter dive with a score of 214.50.
ODU also swept the 3-meter dive as Everette won with a score of 243.45, Caruso was second with a 220.35 and Whepley third with 207.00. Thomas also won the 3-meter dive for the men with a score of 209.55.
Tara Enneking earned ODU’s first win of the day in the 100 breaststroke in a time of 1:05.70. She won her second event of the day in the 200 IM with a time of 2:07.05. Enneking also took second in the 200 breastroke with a time of 2:22.27.
Filip Svedberg got ODU on the board with his second place finish in the 200 butterfly with a time of 1:52.37. ODU was without half a dozen men’s swimmers due to injury or illness. Svedberg also finished third in the 100 freestyle with a time of 46.89.
Summer Miln added a second-place spot for the women with a time of 24.48 in the 50 freestyle. Miln added another second-place finish, this one in the 100 freestyle with a time of 53.35.
Rylee Moss swam to a second-place position in the 200 butterfly in a time of 2:08.59.
Jacklyn VandePoel finished third in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:05.14.
Jacqueline Tinneny took third in the 200 IM with a time of 2:10.82.
Jacob Cobb rounded out the event with a second-place spot in the 200 IM with a time of 1:57.28.
