COLUMBUS, Ohio (November 11, 2023) – For the second year in a row, the No. 3 Denison University women's swimming & diving team suffered a 180-108 loss to the No. 5-ranked team in NCAA Division I, The Ohio State University, on Friday night at the McCorckle Aquatic Pavilion. This was the 13th straight season that Ohio State has hosted the Denison women in a dual meet on the OSU campus.

In the opening event, the 200 medley relay, Denison's group of Jassy Park, Riley Tofflemire, Maja Palmroos and Phoebe Ferguson finished third with a time of 1:46.04.

In the 1000 freestyle, Tara Witkowski was third with a time of 10:33.46 and Lucy Hardart was fourth at 11:00.25; and in the 200 freestyle, Emily Harris was fifth at 1:54.14 while Esme Wright was seventh at 1:55.20.

Park put together a strong third-place showing with a time of 56.99 seconds in the 100 backstroke while Grace Kadlecik was seventh at 1:00.20; and then Tofflemire was third in the 100 breaststroke, swimming a time of 1:05.62 while Zoe Barclay was fifth at 1:08.08.

Nikki Barnas was sixth at 2:10.74 in the 200 butterfly and Amber Croonquist was seventh at 2:12.08; and then in the 50 freestyle, Palmroos was sixth at 24.36 seconds while Liv Chow was seventh at 25.37 seconds.

Ferguson had Denison's first second-place finish of the meet as she swam a time of 53.35 seconds in the 100 freestyle while Kadlecik was fourth at 54.07 seconds.

Chow (2:07.12) and Harris (2:08.13) were back-to-back in fourth and fifth place in the 200 backstroke; and then in the 200 breaststroke, Wright was sixth at 2:26.26 and Barclay was seventh at 2:27.43.

From there, Quinn Brown (5:06.73) was first in the 500 freestyle while Erika Schraber (5:17.48) was second and Hardart (5:20.47) was third.

Croonquist (57.83), Palmroos (57.88) and Avery Vogen (59.94) finished 1-3 in the 100 butterfly; and then Witkowski (2:13.32), Maria Mrosko (2:15.50) and Rebecca Martin (2:15.53) did the same in the 200 IM.

In the 400 freestyle relay, Chow, Harris, Ferguson and Wright were first with a time of 3:34.35 while Natalie English, Vogen, Croonquist and Kadlecik were second at 3:40.61.

Lastly, Lu-Si Minnich (233.02) was third, Kerstyn Johnson (225.22) was fourth and Alexis Radhakrishnan (224.77) was fifth in the 3-meter dive while on the 1-meter board, Radhakrishnan (224.85) was fourth and Molly McIntyre (203.10) was fifth.

Denison will return to the pool in three weeks when it hosts the Denison Invitational (Nov. 29-Dec. 2) at the Trumbull Aquatics Center.

Final Results