Granville, Ohio- Opening its 2025-26 home meet campaign, the In its first official home meet of Denison women's swimming team beat Division I Xavier University by a score of 153-108. The Big Red are now 2-0 against Xavier and finished the day with 24 top-three finishes, including two first-place relay wins and seven individual first-place finishes.
Top performers:
Leading the first-place finish point total was Drue Thielking, who notched three first-place finishes across the day. Thielking took first in the 100 breast (1:04.89 | 9pts), the 200 breast (2:21.12 | 9pts), and finally in the 200 IM, swam a 2:11.22 for first. Quinn Brown would be just behind Thielking in individual top finishes after taking first in the 1000 free (10:28.95 | 9 pts) and swam a 5:05.53 500 free to earn her second first-place finish of the day. Rounding out the top finishers would be Reilly O'Hara, who earned first in the 200 free (1:55.36), and Jassy Park, who swam the 100 back in 57.44 seconds for first place.
Denison would also finish first in the 200 medley relay as well as the 400 free relay. In the 200 medley relay, Park, Thielking, Phoebe Ferguson, and Maddie Schaefer finished with a time of 1:44:91. And in the 400 free relay, Emily Harris, Phoebe Ferguson, Avery Anderson, and Hailey Kaminski took first after swimming it in 3:34.53.
Other notable times:
3rd- 200 Medley Relay: Hailey Kaminski, Gwen Bakker, Sophia Latini, Ollie Morse (1:47.37 | 2pts)
3rd- 100 Back: Avery Anderson (58.82 | 3pts)
3rd- 100 Breast: Gwen Bakker (1:06.92 | 3pts)
2nd- 200 Fly: Emily Harris (2:06.19 | 4pts)
2nd- 50 Free: Ollie Morse (24.47 | 4pts)
3rd- 50 Free: Hailey Kaminski (24.61 | 3pts)
2nd- 100 Free: Emily Harris (53.48 | 4pts)
3rd- 100 Free: Ollie Morse (54.09 | 3pts)
2nd- 200 Back: Caroline Ramirez (2:08.64 | 4pts)
3rd- 200 Back: Hailey Kaminski (2:09.07 | 3pts)
3rd- 200 Breast: Gwen Bakker (2:25.71 | 3pts)
2nd- 500 Free: Reilly O'Hara (5:09.86 | 4pts)
2nd- 100 Fly: Phoebe Ferguson (57.93 | 4pts)
3rd- 100 Fly: Courtney McKeown (59.81 | 3 pts)
3rd- 400 Free Relay: Caroline Ramirez, Reilly O'Hara, Quinn Brown, Ollie Morse
Up next for the Big Red
Denison is off for a week and then returns to Granville, Ohio, to host conference rival Kenyon College on Saturday, November 8, at 10 a.m. inside Trumball Aquatics Center.
