ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- A total of 24 Mids won at least a share of an individual event during a sweep by the Navy swimming and diving teams of UMBC, Saturday at Lejeune Hall in Annapolis. The Navy women's team (3-1) defeated UMBC (0-3) by the score of 153.5-122.5 and the Navy men's team (4-0) won a 163-115 decision over the Retrievers (0-3).
"We are encouraged by the past two days of competition," said Navy men's swimming head coach
Bill Roberts. "Between the two meets (Friday vs. George Washington), we were able to get a good sense of our training efforts over the past few weeks while continuing to learn more about where we can be better."
"We had two great weeks of training followed by two great days of racing against George Washington and UMBC," said Navy women's swimming head coach
John Morrison. We are looking forward to improving the next two weeks and then competing against some Patriot League opponents for the first time this year."
"We had great performances from our divers today," said Navy diving coach
Rich MacDonald. "It was awesome to watch. We are really starting to shake off the early season rust. Having three qualify for the zone meet was big. I was proud of all of the divers."
Lauren Walsh (Fr., Shelton, Conn.) posted a time of 58.33 to win the 100 individual medley by just under two seconds for the Navy women's team. She also recorded a time of 56.75 to win the 100 butterfly event by 2.15 seconds.
Gabi Baldwin (Jr., Lake Elms, Minn.) joined Walsh in winning two swimming events. She first won the 100 backstroke by 33-hundredths of a seconds with her clocking of 58.55, then she finished the 200 individual medley in a time of 2:09.63 to win the race by 18-hundredths of a second.
Mackenzie Kim (Fr., Diamond Bar, Calif.) and
Ali Polidori (Fr., Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) each posted a score of 262.73 to share the victory in the three-meter diving event. Kim would go on to win the one-meter board outright by 1.73 points with her score of 247.73.
The lone Navy men's swimmer to win a pair of events was
Everet Andrew (So., Wilmette, Ill.). His victories came in the 200 freestyle (1:38.48) and 200 individual medley (1:51.26) events. Andrew won the former by 83-hundredths of a seconds and the latter by 4.25 seconds.
Navy will face American, Bucknell and Lafayette on Nov. 5 in Lewisburg, Pa.
