HAMPTON, VA.- True freshman
Sophia Heilen took home the gold with a CAA record 52.96 and qualified for the NCAA B cut, while
Katie Stevenson's 1:46.40 time in the 200 free was a school record on Friday night at day three of the CAA Championship meet.
Ellie Scherer swam a school record and took home the gold in the 100 breaststroke event, while
Annie Tuttle took the bronze.
Kat Vanbourgondien finished second in the 100 back, while
Noah Fields took bronze in the 400 IM with the fastest time in the William & Mary swimming history. Heilen and Scherer qualified under the NCAA B Cut in their respective races.
100 Fly
Prelims- Heilen swam the second fastest prelim time with a 53.77 mark, while
Lauren Klinefelter and
Lindsay Juhlin earned spots in the B Final.
Kent Codding and
Gavin Lamoureux swam season-best times to qualify for the B Final.
Finals- Heilen smashed the conference record to take home the gold medal while Klinefelter and Juhlin both dropped time to finish 13th and 14th respectively. Codding and Lamoureux both dropped time to take 10th and 11th on the men's side.
400 IM
Prelims-
Devin Genderson,
Peyton Proffitt,
Grace Tramack, and
Sarah Rice all qualified for the B Final on the women's side. For the men,
Noah Fields dropped over four seconds to swim a 3:54.70 time and qualify for the A Final alongside teammate
Conor Sokolowsky.
Colby Mills earned a spot in the B Final.
Finals-Three Tribe women finished in a row as Genderson, Tramack, and Proffitt took home 11th, 12th, and 13th, while Rice swam for a 15th place time.
Noah Fields placed on the podium with a bronze medal time of 3:53.14 dropping 1.56 seconds off his preliminary time. Sokolowsky dropped over a second to place seventh in the event. Mills dropped 1.41 to finish 13th.
200 Free
Prelims-
Katie Stevenson continued to impress with a time of 1:47.76 to place second, while
Elizabeth Intihar dropped over half a second to finish in sixth place.
Rhett Cosgrove and
Eugenio Massari both dropped significant time to qualify for the B Final.
Finals- Stevenson's 1:46.40 time was the fastest in school history and was good to deliver the senior the silver medal. Intihar was better than her prelim time and took home fifth place. Cosgrove swam a lifetime best 1:39.46 dropping over half a second to finish 10th and Massari took home 15th.
100 Breast
Prelims-
Ellie Scherer took almost four seconds off her seeded time to finish first among all preliminary swimmers with a 1:01.14 mark, and
Annie Tuttle would place third with Linsday Juhlin coming in seventh. Freshman
Brock Rempe finished fourth with a time of 54.33 and
Kyle Demers placed eighth.
Logan McDonald and
Jasha Heide also would qualify for the B Final.
Finals- Scherer continued to dominate, dropping .24 seconds for a 1:00.90 time to take her first career individual gold medal, while Tuttle dropped over half a second to take the bronze, a time that broke her own personal record. Juhlin dropped time to take home seventh place. On the men's end, Rempe took fifth and broke a Tribe and William & Mary freshman record with a time of 53.93 time in his CAA debut while Demers finished seventh.
Logan McDonald Jasha Heide dropped times to finish 11th and 12th.
100 Back
Prelims-
Kat Vanbourgondien knocked half a second off her career-best time to swim a 55.34 time and place fifth and
Caroline Burgeson would take a spot in the B Final. Codding earned a spot in the A Final while
Cole Younger would earn a second swim in the B Final race.
Finals- Vanbourgondien's time of 54.71 was a career-best as the junior took the silver medal in the 100 back. Burgeson took over half a second off of her prelim time to secure 14th place. Codding's time of 48.86 was his best ever and good for an eighth place finish and Younger dropped nearly a full second off his prelim time of 49.22.
200 Free Relay- Querner, Heilen, Lamoureux, and Burgeson were solid with a time of 1:32.50 to best their entry time and finish fifth in the relay. The men also took fifth as
Alex Valliere, Lamoureux, Massari, and McDonald swam a 1:21.24 time to best their entry by two seconds.