After winning last week with top-end speed, the William & Mary women's swimming team showed it also has strength all the way down the line-up on Saturday, defeating Davidson 155-107 at home. The Tribe won its fifth-straight dual meet to improve to 5-4 overall and guarantee at least a .500 record for the season, while the Wildcats fell to 3-6 on the year.
How it Happened
- The two teams evenly split the win column, each winning seven of the 14 events, but the difference was made in the next two spots. W&M took 10 seconds and 12 thirds, providing the edge it needed to get past Davidson.
- The Tribe started off with a win in the 200 medley relay, hitting the wall first in 1:45.01. Sophomore
Anna Kenna (Chantilly, Va.) led-off, and was joined in the winner's circle by
Brooke Lamoureux (Virginia Beach, Va.),
Madeline High (Raleigh, N.C.), and
Missy Cundiff (Leesburg, Va.).
- Junior
Megan Bull (Hillsborough, N.J.) continued her stellar season with two more wins, taking the 1,000 free in 10:25.70 and coming back later in the 200 breast with a second gold in 2:21.37. Her first win put her over 1,000 points in less than three full seasons.
- Kenna came back to take the win in her signature event, the 100 back, stopping the clock in 57.59 seconds.
- Two more wins came from the talented freshman class. First up was
Katie Stevenson (Wilton, Conn.), picking up her first collegiate victory with a 52.46 performance in the 100 free, followed by
Elizabeth Intihar (Columbus, Ohio) winning the 500 free in 5:05.50 for her fourth victory of the season, best in the rookie ranks.
- The final race of the day was another W&M victory, as the quartet of Cundiff, Stevenson,
Inez Olszewski (New York, N.Y.), and
Tara Tiernan (West Hartford, Conn.) combined to swim 3:30.02 to take the 400 free relay.
William & Mary will bring the regular season to a close next weekend, hosting George Washington on Saturday, Jan. 25. The meet has been moved up one hour to start at 1 p.m. at the Rec Center Pool, preceded by a short Senior Day ceremony in honor of the Tribe's 17 members of the class of 2020.
