The William & Mary men's and women's swimming teams return home this weekend, hosting Davidson on Saturday, Jan. 18, at 12 p.m.  This is the first home meet since early October for the Tribe, who will finish out the regular season with consecutive home appearances this weekend and next.  Action at the Rec Center Pool will begin at noon, and can be followed via live results on TribeAthletics.com.

Live Results

Scouting the Tribe Men
W&M improved to 6-1 overall last week with a 212-68 trouncing of Old Dominion on the road, the biggest margin of victory ever for the Tribe over the Monarchs.  Four seniors, Colin Wright (Williamsburg, Va.), Chris Balbo (Short Hills, N.J.), Jack Doherty (Middletown, Conn.), and Ben Skopic (Marriottsville, Md.) all won a pair of individual races as W&M swept the win in every event and all but five podium spots on the day.  For the season, Wright and Balbo maintained the top two scoring positions for the Tribe, with Wright scoring 285.25 points and 13 wins, and Balbo having a team-best 15 wins to go with 252.5 points.

Scouting the Tribe Women
On the women's side, W&M also downed ODU, 193-101, to even its record at 4-4 overall with four straight wins.  The Tribe won 12 of the 14 events, led by a pair of victories from junior Megan Bull (Hillsborough, N.J.) who now has a team-best 15 wins and 319.75 points.  She is just the seventh woman in program history since 1990 to record three seasons or more of 300+ points.  Sophomore Missy Cundiff (Leesburg, Va.) also kept up her torrid pace, remaining undefeated and a perfect 10-0 in the 50 free this season.  Overall, Cundiff ranks second on the team with her 10 victories and 243.75 points.

Scouting the Wildcats Men
The Davidson men's team is 1-5 overall in dual meets this season, but showed its strength of depth while winning the six-team Bucknell Invitational in early December.  The Wildcats swept the Atlantic 10 weekly awards following a setback against UNCW last week, with Brian Hynes being named the Swimmer of the Week following a win in the 500 free and dual-meet bests in both that event and the 200 fly.  Thomas Broderick was the league's Rookie of the Week, after finishing second in the 200 back with another dual-meet best.

Scouting the Wildcats Women
Davidson's women are 3-5 overall this year, and finished fourth at Bucknell's mid-season meet.  In last week's loss to UNCW, Sarah Helen Shepherd won all three of her individual events, sweeping the breaststrokes and also winning the 400 IM.  Shelby Stanley also had a pair of wins, sweeping the butterfly events.

The Series
- The Tribe men hold the edge on the all-time series with the Wildcats, 36-8-1, dating back to the 1951 season.  W&M has won six in a row and nine of the last 10, with Davidson's last win coming in the fall of 2011.
- W&M also has a commanding lead in the women's series, 22-2, dating back to 1993.  The last Davidson win was in 2004, before the current 13-meet winning streak for the Green and Gold.

Notes
- With last week's win over ODU, the W&M men's swimming team is now just one-meet under .500 all-time in program history (404-405-3, dating back to the 1927-28 season).  The last time the Tribe was .500 overall was 87 years, 11 months, and 12 days ago.  W&M beat Roanoke 54-12 on Jan. 16, 1932, to improve to 10-10 in just its fifth year of existence, but lost to powerhouse Washington & Lee, 42-24, in its next meet on Feb. 5, 1932, and has not been back to even since.

- 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 ranks second among Tribe rookies with 168.25 points and three wins, ranking sixth 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 Seven of the top 13 places on the team scoring list.  Six of the eight rookies have won a race, with three of them recording three wins apiece and another two with a pair each.

- 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 Doherty is qualified in both the 50m free and the 100m fly.  Thompson is qualified in the 50m free, and Skopic 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.

- With his performances so far, Wright moved is sixth in school history with 65 career wins, just ahead of Balbo (63) who is seventh all-time.  Skopic ranks 15th for the Tribe all-time with 37 victories.

- Bull's two wins last week lifted her into 12th in women's program history with 40 career victories, just five wins from joining the all-time top-10.  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 993.25 points scored overall, and needs just 6.75 points to reach 1,000 in her 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.  Doherty is projected to be the next swimmer on the men's side to reach 1,000, currently at 902.75, and if he gets there this season would make it the first time ever that three classmates all scored 1,000 points.

- W&M has broken 18 records so far this season.
School:
Men's 50 back - Colin Demers, 22.00 (11/22)
Women's 400m free (LCM) - Megan Bull, 4:21.80 (12/5)
Women's 200m IM (LCM) - Megan Bull, 2:22.15 (12/5)

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 back - Colin Demers, 48.86 (1/11, tied)
Men's 100 fly - Jack Doherty, 49.13 (10/5), 49.12 (10/12), 49.00 (10/26), 48.58 (1/11)
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 400 free relay - I. Thompson, C. Wright, J. Doherty, G. Hertweck, 3:00.95 (1/11)
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)