The William & Mary men's & women's swimming teams will get back in action after the long winter break this weekend, heading down to Norfolk to face long-time rival Old Dominion on Saturday, Jan. 11, at 12 p.m.

Scouting the Tribe Men
W&M went 5-1 (3-0 CAA) in the fall campaign, winning four in a row after a narrow loss to East Carolina, and wrapped up the semester by taking third at the West Virginia Invitational.  Seniors Colin Wright (Williamsburg, Va.) and Chris Balbo (Short Hills, N.J.) continue to lead the Tribe in scoring this season, with Wright holding the edge with 261.75 points and 11 wins, while Balbo leads in victories with 13 wins en route to 234.5 points.

Scouting the Tribe Women
On the women's side, W&M is 4-3 overall and 2-2 in league action, winners of the last four dual meets of the fall semester.  The Tribe also had a big finish to the first half of the season, winning the 10-team West Virginia Invitational in convincing fashion for just the second mid-season win in program history.  Junior Megan Bull (Hillsborough, N.J.) has been on fire all year long, and leads the team with 299 points and 13 wins, while sophomore Missy Cundiff (Leesburg, Va.) is undefeated in the 50 free and has 227.25 points and nine wins overall.

Scouting the Monarchs
The ODU men's team is 1-2 (1-0 CCSA) in dual-meets this season, with losses to UNCW and East Carolina and a win over Gardner-Webb, and finished sixth overall at the West Virginia Invitational in November.  Individually, Peter Durisin ranks second in the CCSA this season in the 100 breast and fourth in the 200 breast, while Jacob Cobb is second in the 400 IM and third in the 200 back.  Filip Svedberg also ranks highly in a pair of events in his conference, third in the 100 fly and fifth in the 200 IM.

Scouting the Lady Monarchs
The ODU women's team is 3-1 overall and winners of three in a row (over UNCW, Campbell, and Gardner-Webb) following a season-opening loss to East Carolina.  The Lady Monarchs also took fifth at the West Virginia Invitational in November.  Jacklyn Vandepoel ranks third in the Conference USA this season in the 200 back.  In addition to Vandepoel, this weekend is likely to see Jacqueline Tinneny favored to win the 1000 free, while Tara Enneking leads the pysch sheet in both the 100 breast and the 200 IM.

The Series
- The Tribe women are 48-9-1 all-time against Old Dominion, and have won the last 14 in a row dating back to the 2004-05 season.
- W&M leads the men's series with the Monarchs 28-22-1, thanks to wins in each of the last four meets.  That's the Tribe's longest win streak since taking the first 16 meetings from 1962-78.

Notes
- Old Dominion was originally founded as an two-year extension college of W&M in 1930, before splitting off into an institution of its own in 1962.  The Monarchs' pool is named for Joseph "Scrap" Chandler, a 1924 graduate of W&M and son of W&M President Alvin Chandler.  Scrap was a standout baseball player and track runner, and after graduating, coached at W&M for 18 years.  In 1942, he moved down to the Norfolk Division as a coach and Director of Athletics, where in addition to his other duties he introduced the sport of swimming to the institution.  It is conservatively estimated that Chandler's summer program taught over 28,000 people how to swim.

- Freshman Grace Tramack (Palo Alto, Calif.) was named the Colonial Athletic Association's Rookie Swimmer of the Month for November, after scoring 149.25 points in that month alone with two individual victories.  For the season, she leads all Tribe rookies with 159.25 points and two wins, ranking fifth on the team overall.

- In addition to Tramack, the women's freshman class has been a powerhouse for W&M so far this season, accounting for half of the top eight places on the team scoring list and seven of the top 13.  Six of the eight rookies have won a race, with five of them recording two wins apiece.

- Five Tribe swimmers earned Olympic Trials qualifying marks over the summer.  Wright is qualified in the 50m free and the 100m free, while his classmate Jack Doherty (Middletown, Conn.) is qualified in both the 50m free and the 100m fly.  Senior Ian Thompson (Alexandria, Va.) is qualified in the 50m free, and Ben Skopic (Marriottsville, Md.) is qualified in the 200m IM.  On the women's side, Cundiff picked up her first qualifying mark in the 50m free.

- W&M's two wins on the men's side at the CAA Pod Meet gave the Tribe 16-straight wins over conference opponents, breaking the program record of 15-straight in the Southern Conference won between 1968 and 1975.

- After winning twice at VMI, senior Ian Bidwell (Pelham, N.Y.) was named the CAA Swimmer of the Week on Nov. 12.  Bidwell already has a career-high five victories this season.

- With his performances in the fall, Wright moved up to sixth in school history with 63 career wins, just ahead of Balbo (61) who is tied for seventh with Hall-of-Famer George Collins '70.  Skopic also moved into the top-15, ranking fifth so far with 35 career wins.

- Bull is tied for 12th in women's program history with 38 career victories alongside Becky Schmitz '01.  She's just seven wins from joining the all-time top-10, and if she gets there this season will also have a 20-win season for the first time in her career.

- Bull is also 12th in school history with 972.5 points scored overall, and needs just 27.5 points to reach 1,000 in her career.

- With her next point, Bull will reach 300 for the third season in a row, becoming just the seventh woman in program history since 1990-91 to achieve that feat.  It'd be just the 30th 300-point season overall, all since 1997-98, and Bull would enter her senior season in 2020-21 with a chance to match all-time leading scorer Katie Radloff '10 as the only women to surpass 300 points all four years of their career.

- Wright passed 1,000 career points in the season-opener against Johns Hopkins, while Balbo joined the 1,000-point club at the West Virginia Invitational, becoming the seventh and eighth men in school history since 1990 to achieve that feat.  Wright now ranks fourth all-time with 1,252.5 points, less than fifty from surpassing Andrew Strait '14 for third place and 110 points from moving into second ahead of Will Manion '16.  Hall-of-Famer Chris Robinson '00 holds the program record with 1,469.5 points scored.  Doherty is projected to be the next swimmer to rach 1,000, currently at 879.25, and if he gets there this season would make it the first time ever that three teammates all scored 1,000 points.

- W&M has broken 13 records so far this season.
School:
Men's 50 back - Colin Demers, 22.00 (11/22)

Pool:
Men's 50 free - Colin Wright, 19.95 (10/5)
Men's 200 free - Colin Wright, 1:40.61 (10/5)
Men's 200 free relay - C. Wright, I. Thompson, J. Doherty, G. Hertweck, 1:20.99 (10/5)
Men's 200 medley relay - C. Demers, D. McNulty, J. Doherty, C. Wright, 1:29.21 (10/5)

Dual Meet:
Men's 50 free - Colin Wright, 19.95 (10/5)
Men's 100 fly - Jack Doherty, 49.13 (10/5), 49.12 (10/12), 49.00 (10/26)
Men's 200 IM - Ben Skopic, 1:51.15 (10/5)
Men's 200 free relay - C. Wright, I. Thompson, J. Doherty, G. Hertweck, 1:20.99 (10/5)
Men's 200 medley relay - C. Demers, D. McNulty, J. Doherty, C. Wright, 1:29.21 (10/5)
Men's 400 medley relay - C. Demers, I. Bidwell, J. Doherty, C. Wright, 3:20.30 (11/2)