The Big Red women's swimming and diving team captured their fourth-straight North Coast Athletic Conference Relay championship on Saturday afternoon from both Gambier and Granville.  Denison totaled 172 points while Kenyon placed second with 152 points.

The Big Red logged two first-place finishes in the swimming events.  Their first victory came in the 200 breaststroke relay when Natalie Lugg (Woodbury, Minn./Woodbury), Alyssa Swanson (Aurora, Colo./Regis Jesuit), Gail Blachly (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central) and Ksenia Golovkina (Newton, Mass./Newton South) set a new meet record with a time of 2:02.87.

Swanson and Lugg would return with Morgan Nuess (Kettering, Ohio/Dayton Christian) and Sarah Yu (Durham, N.C./Chapel Hill) to win the 500 freestyle Crescendo Relay with a time of 4:39.85 that edged Kenyon by nearly two seconds. Overall, Swanson paced the Big Red with six top-3 finishes.

In the diving competition from Gregory Pool in Granville, DU was led by senior Lizzie Litwak (Loudonville, N.Y./Albany Academy for Girls) and first-year Rachel Keselring (West Bloomfield, Mich./West Bloomfield) who placed first in the three-meter dive and second in the one-meter dive.  In the three-meter, Litwak placed first overall with a score of 175.35.  Keselring followed with the fourth-best score in the event (164.00).  In the one-meter relay, Allegheny placed first with 352.80 points while DU checked in second with 335.0 points.

Denison will return to action next Saturday (Oct. 30) when they host Ohio Wesleyan and travel to Oberlin.