The William & Mary women's swimming won its fourth-straight dual meet on Saturday, getting the spring semester underway with a 193-101 road win over ancient rival Old Dominion. The Tribe evened its season ledger at 4-4 with the win, while the Lady Monarchs fell to 3-2 on the year.
How it Happened
- The Tribe won 12 of 14 swimming events on the day, and claimed 33 of 42 total top-three finishes across the afternoon.
- The day started off with the 200 medley relay, where W&M swept the top three spots. The winning team included
Anna Kenna (Chantilly, Va.),
Annie Tuttle (Alexandria, Va.),
Brooke Lamoureux (Virginia Beach, Va.), and
Missy Cundiff (Leesburg, Va.), combining to finish in 1:45.65.
- Cundiff also swam on the victorious 400 free relay team, taking the second leg alongside
Inez Olszewski (New York, N.Y.),
Katie Stevenson (Wilton, Conn.), and
Megan Bull (Hillsborough, N.J.). The quartet cleared the 16 lengths of the pool in a time of 3:30.50.
- Individually, the junior Bull was the only double-winner on the day. She first won the 200 free in 1:52.49, and then came back to take the 100 free in 52.38. That victory in the 200 pushed her over 300 points on the season, and she becomes just the seventh swimmer in program history with three or more 300+ point seasons in her career. Bull's second win was the 40th of her career, and she is now just 6.75 points away from 1,000 in less than three full seasons.
- The sophomore Cundiff also continue to impress this season, remaining undefeated with her 10th win in the 50 free with a time of 23.51. Cundiff is a perfect 8-0 in the Tribe's dual meets in the short sprint, and also won both the prelims and the finals of the event at the West Virginia Invitational in November.
- Her classmate Kenna won her signature event, the 100 back, stopping the clock in 57.80 seconds.
- Junior
Tara Tiernan (West Hartford, Conn.) gave the Tribe a sweep of the backstrokes, finishing first in the 200 back with a time of 2:04.99.
- W&M also swept the butterflies. In the 200 fly, sophomore
Rebecca Rogers (Richmond, Va.) swam 2:07.27 for her first win of the season, before junior
Madeline High (Raleigh, N.C.) took the 100 fly in 58.27 seconds.
- The freshman class accounted for the Tribe's final three victories.
Grace Tramack (Palo Alto, Calif.), the CAA's November Rookie of the Month, made a strong start towards the January award by taking the 1,000 free in 10:24.42, before
Peyton Proffitt (Richmond, Va.) won the 200 breast in 2:22.52. In the very next event,
Elizabeth Intihar (Columbus, Ohio) touched the wall in 5:06.61 to win the 500 free. All three freshmen won for a class-best third time this season.
William & Mary returns home next weekend, Saturday, Jan. 18, hosting Davidson at 12 p.m. at the Rec Center.
