The William & Mary women's swimming team out-distanced a game Johns Hopkins squad on Saturday in the season opener, winning 162-100.  The Tribe improves to 1-0 to start the year, while the Blue Jays fall to 0-1 overall.



The win is W&M's fifth in a row at home, tied for the third-longest home winning streak in school history.  The Tribe won 10 of the 14 events in the meet, including both relays.  To start things off, the 200 medley team of Katie Sell (Fredericksburg, Va.), Jess Crowley (Acton, Mass.), Abby Mack (Wayne, Pa.), and Annie Miller (Houston, Texas) won three of four legs to win in a time of 1:45.73.  Then, to finish things off, Miller and Sell swam the middle two legs of the 400 free relay along with Emma Herold (Kohler, Wisc.) and freshman Tara Tiernan (West Hartford, Conn.), overhauling the Hopkins squad in a long chase to win big in 3:31.15.

Individually, Sell won both of her races, out-racing Hopkins' Anna Wisniewski both times.  She won the 100 back in 57 seconds flat, then came back to out-touch Wisniewski in the 100 free, 52.63 to 52.84.  Also winning a pair was junior Maria Oceguera (New Rochelle, N.Y.), who took a break from the distance races to sweep the butterfly events.  In the 200 fly, she was well clear of the field, winning in 2:04.74, then took the 100 fly by a full second in 57.75.

Single wins went to both Miller, who took the 50 free in 24.13 seconds, and to Tiernan, winning the 200 back in 2:06.93 in her collegiate debut.  Junior Morgan Smith (Verona, N.J.) won the 1,000 free in 10:29.42, and freshman Megan Bull (Hillsborough, N.J.) won one of the most exciting races of the afternoon.  In the 500 free, she pulled ahead of Hopkins senior Courtney Cowan in the middle stretches of the race, then rallied to hold off Cowan's late charge and out-touch her at the wall, 5:02.20 to 5:02.39.

Event Winners
200 Medley Relay - W&M 1:45.73 (Katie Sell, Jess Crowley, Abby Mack, Annie Miller), JHU 1:46.64 (Natalia Rincon, Gwynnie Lamastra, Anna Wisniewski, Mikayla Bisginani)
1,000 Free - Morgan Smith (W&M) 10:29.42, Norah Hunt (W&M) 10:30.98
200 Free - Courtney Cowan (JHU) 1:52.29, Emma Herold (W&M) 1:55.31
100 Back - Katie Sell (W&M) 57.00, Anna Wisniewski (JHU) 58.80
100 Breast - Gwynnie Lamastra (JHU) 1:05.65, Megan Bull (W&M) 1:06.99
200 Fly - Maria Oceguera (W&M) 2:04.74, Julia Bland (W&M) 2:12.22
50 Free - Annie Miller (W&M) 24.13, Emma Herold (W&M) 24.53
100 Free - Katie Sell (W&M) 52.63, Anna Wisniewski (JHU) 52.84
200 Back - Tara Tiernan (W&M) 2:06.93, Samantha Kegel (JHU) 2:07.66
200 Breast - Gwynnie Lamastra (JHU) 2:21.60, Shannon Harrington (W&M) 2:24.91
500 Free - Megan Bull (W&M) 5:02.20, Courtney Cowan (JHU) 5:02.39
100 Fly - Maria Oceguera (W&M) 57.75, Abby Mack (W&M) 58.75
200 IM - Kaitlin Jones (JHU) 2:09.76, Michelle Wang (JHU) 2:09.81
400 Free Relay - W&M 3:31.15 (Emma Herold, Annie Miller, Katie Sell, Tara Tiernan), JHU 3:32.58 (Anna Wisniewski, Alison Shapiro, Courtney Cowan, Amy Pearson)

Up Next
William & Mary hits the road next weekend, traveling down to Greenville, N.C., to face East Carolina, Gardner-Webb, and Campbell in a quad-meet beginning at 1 p.m.