YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (January 20, 2024) – The No. 1-ranked Denison University women's swimming & diving team racked up 17 wins across 24 total events in a non-scoring meet against NCAA Division I Youngstown State University on Saturday afternoon inside YSU's Beeghly Natatorium. It was also a hybrid meet with multiple events being swam two times.

In addition to winning both relay events, Denison's 15 individual wins represented 11 different athletes while Emily Harris (100 freestyle, 200 freestyle), Grace Kadlecik (50 backstroke, 50 butterfly), Zoe Barclay (100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke) and Riley Tofflemire (50 breaststroke, 100 breaststroke) each picked up two individual wins.

Denison started things off by taking the top-two spots in the 200 medley relay. Jassy Park, Tofflemire, Amber Croonquist and Kadlecik were first with an NCAA Division III National "B" cut time of 1:43.47 while Claire Moody, Drue Thielking, Emma Pritchett and Esme Wright were second with a time of 1:45.71.

Lucy Hardart won the first individual event, the 1000 freestyle, swimming a time of 10:35.98.

Harris (1:50.45), Quinn Brown (1:51.05), Taryn Wisner (1:52.06), Tara Witkowski (1:52.90) and Jena Lawlor (1:55.26) swept the top-five spots in the 200 freestyle with Harris, Brown and Wisner each earning a National "B" cut time as well.

Annie Pfeufer then won the first 100 freestyle with a time of 52.80 seconds while Natalie English (54.34) was third.

Then in the first 100 backstroke, Pritchett and Moody finished in first and second place with times of 58.46 seconds and 59.71 seconds, respectively.

Kadlecik was first in the 50 backstroke with a time of 26.86 seconds while Phoebe Ferguson (28.03) tied for second and Lauren Richner (28.24) and Rebecca Martin (29.24) finished in fourth place and then fifth place, respectively.

Barclay won the first 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:06.58 while Haley Thier (1:07.08) was third, Maja Palmroos (1:08.63) was fourth and Maria Mrosko (1:08.79) was fifth.

Denison then earned its eighth win in a row to start the meet as Tofflemire earned the win in the 50 breaststroke with a time of 29.21 seconds while Thielking came in third at 29.90 seconds.

Kelly Derasmo was second with a time of 2:07.99 in the 200 butterfly while Erika Schraber was fourth at 2:11.30.

Then in the first 100 butterfly, Avery Vogen (57.93), Park (58.09), Mrosko (58.53) and Nikki Barnas (59.91) swept the top-four spots.

Palmroos (24.31), Olivia Morse (24.57) and English (25.14) took the top-three spots in the 50 freestyle; and then in the second 100 freestyle, Harris (51.94), Lawlor (52.72), Wright (52.89), Croonquist (53.49) and Vogen (53.90) swept the top-five spots.

Wisner and Pritchett finished back-to-back in the top-two spots in the 200 backstroke with times of 2:06.21 and 2:08.33, respectively; and then in the second 100 backstroke, Sophie Kannee (1:00.20), Richner (1:00.29), Brown (1:01.58) and Martin (1:04.85) finished in order between second and fifth place.

In the 200 breaststroke, Barclay earned her second win of the meet with a time of 2:24.50 while Witkowski was third at 2:27.15.

Then in the second 100 breaststroke, Tofflemire also earned her second win with a "B" cut time of 1:03.22 while Ferguson was fourth at 1:07.40.

Pfeufer (5:08.68), Barnas (5:12.25), Hardart (5:13.73) and Derasmo (5:16.53) finished in order between second place and fifth place in the 500 freestyle; and then in the second 100 butterfly, Park was second at 58.91 seconds and Caroline Cavalier was fourth at 59.41 seconds.

In the 50 butterfly, Kadlecik earned her second win of the meet and finished first at 25.40 seconds while Palmroos and Croonquist tied for second at 25.44 seconds and Morse came in fourth at 27.12 seconds.

Witkowski (2:09.21) and Park (2:11.20) finished in the top-two spots in the 200 IM while in the 100 IM, Wright (59.83) finished second and Thielking (1:00.97), Martin (1:01.33) and Schraber (1:03.11) finished in order between fourth and sixth place.

In the 200 freestyle relay, Denison again took the top-two spots as Kadlecik, Harris, Palmroos and Ferguson were first at 1:35.63 before Pfeufer, Derasmo, Vogen and English finished second at 1:37.71.

On the 1-meter board, Lu-Si Minnich led Denison with a fifth-place finish and a score of 214.28 while Alexis Radhakrishnan (212.48) was sixth and Kerstyn Johnson (207.30) was seventh. Then in the 3-meter dive, Kerstyn Johnson was fourth with a score of 230.48 while Radhakrishnan (227.55) was sixth for the second time and Minnich (220.20) was seventh.

Denison returns home to the Trumbull Aquatics Center at 10 a.m. on Saturday, January 27, for its Senior Day against Ohio Wesleyan University.
 
NCAA Division III National "B" cuts:
Jassy Park, Riley Tofflemire, Amber Croonquist, Grace Kadlecik – 200 medley relay – 1:43.47
Emily Harris – 200 freestyle – 1:50.45
Quinn Brown – 200 freestyle – 1:51.05
Taryn Wisner – 200 freestyle – 1:52.06
Riley Tofflemire – 100 breaststroke – 1:03.22
 
Final Results