William & Mary vs Loyola Maryland
- November 4, 2023
- Williamsburg, Va.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Tribe Athletics
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The William & Mary women’s swim team (4-0, 2-0 CAA) earned their fourth-consecutive victory of the season to remain undefeated, taking down previously-undefeated Loyola Maryland (4-1, 4-0 Patriot League) with a final score of 185-77 on Saturday afternoon.
The women earned 13 wins over 14 events for the second meet in a row, marking their fourth meet with 11 wins or more, setting a pair of pool records.
The Tribe men’s team (1-3, 0-2 CAA) fell to the Greyhounds (5-0, 4-0 Patriot League) 190-71, securing 15 podium finishes in the meet, as Thor Dyke earned his third 1,000 free victory in as many attempts.
Dyke, Aiden Bond, Gavin Lamoureux and David Yune each earned a pair of podium finishes, and the men’s relay teams combined for three.
Ellie Scherer set a pool and dual-meet Record in the 100 breast with a time of 1:03.23 to replace a decades-old pool record set in 2009.
Lindsay Juhlin’s 54.96 time was good for a pool record in the 100 fly, replacing teammate Sophia Heilen’s pool-record time of 55.18 from the Tribe’s last meet at home against Towson.
In seven events, the Tribe women took the top two spots. To open the meet, the women’s medley relay team of Kat Vanbourgondien, Scherer, Lauren Klinefelter and Sydney Querner earned a win with a 1:44.27 finish and the team of Caroline Burgeson, Heilen, Clara Bodnar and Flynn Truskett clocked in at 1:46.24 for a third-place finish.
Kelsey Katt earned a win in the 1,000 free for the women, finishing in 10:25.21, nearly four seconds ahead of the second-place swimmer.
As the only Tribe swimmer in the event, Dyke topped four Greyhounds to take the win in the 1000 free on the men’s side in 9:36.45.
Sophia Heilen earned three individual wins, clocking in at 2:02.85 in the 200 fly, 2:17.47 in the 200 breast and finishing the 200 IM with a time of 2:04.89.
Lauren Tucker also earned multiple first place finishes, taking the win in the 200 free with a 1:52.81 time and posting a 4:59.21 finish in the 500 free. Tucker also landed on the podium with a 2:07.96 finish in the 200 IM.
In the men’s 100 fly, senior duo Kent Codding and Lamoureux earned second and third place with 50.81 and 50.83 times, respectively.
Lamoureux also finished on the podium for the Tribe men in the 200 fly, clocking in at 1:52.79, only two-tenths of a second back from the first-place time.
Vanbourgondien earned an individual win to go along with the women’s 200 medley relay finish, securing a victory in the 100 back with a 56.25 time. In the women’s 100 free, freshman Sarah Dunham’s 52.21 finish was good for first place and Burgeson paces the women’s 50 free with a 23.86 time.
Full meet results are available here.
Up Next
The Tribe will travel to the West Virginia Invitational to compete Nov. 16-18 and then will swim in the Toyota US Open in Greensboro, N.C., on Nov. 29-Dec. 3 to close out the 2023 calendar year.
After a pair of dual meets on the road to kick off 2024, W&M swimming will be back home at Bee McLeod Rec Center at 12 p.m. on Jan. 27 to take on Georgetown.
Courtesy: Loyola Athletics
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Caleb Kelly, Joe Hayburn and Henry Mueller all won three races on Saturday as the Loyola University Maryland men’s swimming and diving team remained unbeaten this season with a 193-69 victory at College of William & Mary.
The Greyhounds men won both relay events and scored victories in 11 of 12 individual races en route to the victory.
William & Mary’s women dealt Loyola its first defeat of the season, 186-76.
Doubling Up
- The trio of Kelly, Hayburn and Mueller combined for 58 of the Greyhounds points individual with their six combined wins, plus a second-place finish for Mueller.
- Kelly held down first in both sprint freestyle events, winning the 50 in 20.56 seconds and the 100 with a time of 45.76.
- Hayburn won both backstroke events with narrow wins against a pair of teammates. First, he held off his own brother, Patrick Hayburn, for first in the 100 backstroke, swimming 49.71 to Patrick’s 50.08. Joe Hayburn then won the 200 backstroke in 1:49.00 with Max Verheyen taking second in 1:52.11.
- Mueller put the first individual win on the board Saturday with a victory in the 200 freestyle, clocking 1:41.38 as Tyler Knurek (1:42.88) and Verheyen (1:43.02) completed a one-two-three sweep for the Greyhounds. Mueller then came back to win the 500 freestyle in 4:40.22, just a second faster than teammate Jonah Goodman’s 4:41.28.
Winning Woman
- Lauren Lane topped the 200 backstroke field by more than two seconds, coming from behind to take first in 2:03.05. Lane went in to the final 100 yards behind the Tribe’s Kat Vanbourgondien, btu Lane had the fastest times over the last four laps to pick up the victory.
Top Twos
- In addition to going first-second-third in the 200 freestyle, Loyola’s men were first and second in seven races on Saturday.
- Michael Gozdan and Zach Eisenmann accomplished the feat in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes with each winning one. Gozdan got the better of the 100 in 55.68 to Eisenmann’s 56.59, Eisenmann returned the favor in the 200, getting to the wall in 2:05.65, edging Gozdan by nine-hundredths of a second.
- Cameron Shinnick earned the top spot in the 200 butterfly by swimming 1:52.59 to out-touch Owen Glaser’s time of 1:52.76.
- Verheyen swam 1:53.57 to win the final event, the 200 individual medley with Mueller coming in second in 1:54.01.
Fly-ing To First
- Patrick Hayburn was a winner for the Greyhounds in the 100 butterfly, going 50.29 to beat William & Mary’s Kent Codding (50.81).
Relay Success
- Joe Hayburn, Verheyen, Patrick Hayburn and Kelly led off the meet for the men with a time of 1:30.30 to win the 200 medley relay.
- And, the meet closed for Loyola with a victory in the 200 freestyle relay as Joe Hayburn, Kelly, Patrick Hayburn and Mueller swam 1:22.26 for a win by almost two seconds.
- Loyola’s women took second in both relays with Lily Mead, Avery Stimmel, Michaela Schultz and Charley Tulio opening with a time of 1:44.31, just four-hundredths of a second behind William & Mary’s winning effort.
- Stimmel, Haley Robinson, Schultz and Tulio finished second in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:36.63.
Solid Seconds
- Loyola’s women had four second-place finishes in the meet against the Tribe.
- Riley ZIngler finished the 1,000 freestyle in 10:28.79, and Tulio was second in the 50 freestyle in 24.01.
- Loyola was second and third in the 100 backstroke – Mead (57.91) and Kelly Bruen (58.73) – and the 100 breaststroke – Stimmel (1:06.05) and Paige Simko (1:06.71).
Up Next
- The Greyhounds return home for a meet next Saturday, November 11, against Bucknell University.
