AU Women Rout Oberlin In Swim And Dive Home Opener

The 2023-24 home opener for Ashland University's swimming and diving teams took place on Saturday (Nov. 4) afternoon against Oberlin at the Messerly Natatorium.
 
Ashland's women took a 224-72 decision from the Yeowomen, and the Eagle men took a close 143-141 loss to the Yeomen.
 
Freshman Payton O'Toole won three individual events, taking the women's 1,000-yard freestyle (11:13.43), women's 100 free (56.21 seconds), and women's 100 butterfly (1:00.84).
 
In diving, freshman Riley Hunt took two wins – in women's 1-meter (199.30 points) and 3-meter (232.55 points), and so did sophomore Joey Lenczyk – in men's 1-meter (255.15 points) and 3-meter (258.55 points). Senior Gabby Diehl also won two individual events, the women's 100 backstroke (1:03.47) and women's 200 back (2:21.16), as did sophomore Paige Nicholson in the women's 100 breaststroke (1:11.31) and women's 200 breaststroke (2:37.09) and freshman Rachel Stanchek in the women's 200 fly (2:25.75) and the women's 400 individual medley (5:02.63).
 
Single individual victories were earned on Saturday by freshman Juliana Pignato in the women's 200 free (2:01.47), junior Robin Falk in the men's 200 free (1:46.50), freshman Colin Pham in the men's 100 back (53.79 seconds), junior Colleen Cox in the women's 50 free (25.50 seconds), sophomore Cole Huebner in the men's 100 free (48.41 seconds), sophomore Nick Girz in the men's 200 breaststroke (2:16.65), and sophomore Mary Kate Prall in the women's 500 free (5:35.10).
 
Relay victories were earned by the women's 400 medley team of Prall, Cox, Pignato and Nicholson (4:12.84), the women's 400 free quartet of freshman Blair Pichola, O'Toole, Pignato and Cox (3:46.72), and the men's 400 free relay of sophomore Nick Olquin, Girz, Huebner and Falk (3:12.09).
 
Coming in second in individual events were sophomore Maddi Whitticar in women's 1-meter (174.30 points) and 3-meter diving (188.70 points), sophomore Jason Basile in the men's 1,000 free (10:18.36) and men's 500 free (4:58.34), Huebner in the men's 200 free (1:47.57) and men's 50 free (22.23 seconds), freshman Payton Meyer in the women's 100 back (1:03.63) and women's 400 IM (5:07.47), junior Holly Kraemer in the women's 1,000 free (12:20.39), senior Sydney Porinchok in the women's 100 breaststroke (1:15.74), Girz in the men's 100 breaststroke (59.84 seconds), senior Josh Hagan in the men's 200 fly (1:59.44), Nicholson in the women's 100 free (57.07 seconds), freshman Anna Ramsier in the women's 200 back (2:24.12), Stanchek in the women's 200 breaststroke (2:43.41), Pignato in the women's 100 fly (1:01.19), and Falk in the men's 100 fly (53.47 seconds).
 
Second-place relays were the women's 400 medley of Ramsier, Pichola, Meyer and O'Brien (4:22.60), and the men's 400 medley of Pham, Girz, Falk and sophomore Ryan Mohler (3:37.43).
 
UP NEXT
The Eagle men and women will stay at home to take on Malone in a dual on Friday (Nov. 10) at 5 p.m.