ANNAPOLIS, Md. –– Eight members of the Navy women's swimming and diving team won an individual event to help the Mids (10-3) to a 135.5-93.5 victory over Richmond (2-6), Friday evening at Lejeune Hall in Annapolis.
Navy totaled 10 wins in the 13 events contested between the teams. Winning two events on the day was
Lauren Barber (Sr., New Wilmington, Pa.), who closed out her dual meet career with 100 career individual event victories.
"I think we did well today," said Navy women's swimming head coach
John Morrison. "After a two-week break from competition, the team stepped up and raced pretty hard from the start to the end of the meet. We definitely saw some positives we didn't see two weeks ago in our first meet after our training trip. And we also saw some things today that we need to continue to focus on with championship season upon us. I am excited for where we are at."
"It was an up-and-down day," said Navy diving coach
Rich MacDonald. "Overall, we dove pretty well. Now we have a couple of weeks to prepare for the conference championship. We are looking forward to refining our respective dive lists to place ourselves in the best position to dive well at the league meet.
The Mids began the meet, their last prior to the start of the championship portion of their season, by placing first and second in the 400 medley relay.
Erin Scudder (Jr., Western Springs, Ill.) then posted a time of 17:20.11 to win the 1650 freestyle by 11 seconds.
Ali Kozlina (So., Cranberry Township, Pa.) led a 1-2 Navy finish in the 200 free with her winning time of 1:53.11. She won the event by a little more than one-quarter of a second over
Sarah Sorensen (Fr., Kennesaw, Ga.).
Navy would claim the top-three finishers in the next event, the 50 freestyle.
Martina Thomas (Fr., Fayetteville, Ark.) took the gold in a time of 24.11, Alayna Nielsen (Fr., Baldwin, Mo.) took the silver in a clocking of 24.35 and
Kelly Harrington (Fr., Fairfax, Va.) tied for the bronze with her effort of 24.41.
Event five, the 200 individual medley, was another 1-2 Navy finish. Barber won the event with a time of 2:02.10 and
Jamie Miller (Jr., Rochester Hills, Mich.) placed second with her clocking of 2:08.24.
Navy also placed first and second in the three-meter diving competition.
Hannah Montau (Fr., Germantown, Md.) scored 309.60 points to win the event by 12 points over teammate
Meghan Gerdes (So., Spring, Texas).
Navy swimmers continued to have success as the Mids placed first, second and third in the 200 butterfly and 100 freestyle races.
Delaney Walz (Jr., Mays Landing, N.J.) won the 200 fly in a time of 2:01.48, with
Sydney Harrington (Fr., Fairfax, Va.) placing second (2:01.87) and
Lauren Greenberg (Sr., Waxhaw, N.C.) finishing in third place.
The 100 free saw a switch of the top-two finishers from the 200 free. This time, Sorenson won the race in a time of 52.22 and Kozlina finished in second place in a clocking of 52.30. Scudder posted a time of 52.84 to finish in third place.
Ashley Boddiford (So., Oviedo, Fla.) won the next race for Navy, the 200 back, in a time of 2:01.15. She touched the wall first by more than two and one-half seconds.
Completing the list of Navy's winners on the day was Barber as she posted a time of 4:56.37 to win the 500 free by 11 seconds.
Navy and Richmond will train and race in un-scored time trials Saturday morning starting at 9 a.m. After that, the Mids will turn their entire focus to the Feb. 20-23 Patriot League Championship in Lewisburg, Pa.
