The William & Mary women's swimming team was near-perfect on Senior Day against VMI, winning each of the first 13 events before exhibitioning the relay, and compiled a 204-46 win in the final dual meet of the regular season. The Tribe improved to 5-7 overall to finish the dual-meet season, while the Keydets fell to 1-13 overall.
- The winning started in the first event, where the Tribe swept the top four spots in the 200 medley relay. The top team of
Anna Kenna (Chantilly, Va.),
Ellie Henry (Southern Pines, N.C.),
Katie Sell (Fredericksburg, Va.), and
Annie Miller (Houston, Texas) combined to swim 1:44.38 for the win.
- Next was the 1,000 free, where junior
Norah Hunt (Stuarts Draft, Va.) won the first of her two races on the day in 10:28.28.
- The freshman Henry won the 200 free in 1:53.98, a lifetime-best by 2.36 seconds for the rookie.
- Her classmate Kenna picked up an individual win of her own in the 100 back, timing 57.33 seconds.
- Junior
Lauren Freeman (Fairfax Station, Va.) won the 100 breast in 1:06.11, the first of her two wins on the day.
- Next was the 200 fly, where senior
Maria Oceguera (New Rochelle, N.Y.) won in 2:02.37, breaking the Tribe's dual-meet record of 2:03.10 that was set two years ago by
Jessie Ustjanauskas '16.
- In the 50 free, freshman
Missy Cundiff (Leesburg, Va.) tied her collegiate and season-best to win in 23.27 seconds, which ties her for seventh all-time among W&M athletes in the event.
- Oceguera was back at it in the 100 free, winning her second event of the meet in 53.22 seconds. That improved her lifetime-best in the event by 0.59 seconds.
- In the 200 back, freshman
Sonora Baker (Mechanicsville, Va.) and sophomore
Tara Tiernan (West Hartford, Conn.) came into the wall neck-and-neck, with Baker stretching to claim the win by .01, 2:04.14 to 2:04.15.
- Freeman's second win of the day came in the 200 breast, a 2:23.61 win that gave her a sweep of the stroke.
- Hunt earned her second win next, cruising to a 5:05.98 win in the 500 free. That was the second-fastest in-season 500 of Hunt's career, less than a second behind her time from the CAA Pod Meet last November.
- The senior Sell won her final dual-meet race of her career in the 100 fly, timing 56.99 to take the victory.
- Finishing out the meet was senior
Morgan Smith (Verona, N.J.), who put the exclamation point on the win with a 2:08.96 victory in the 200 IM.
Next up for William & Mary is the Janis Hape Dowd Carolina Invitational, Feb. 8-10 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
