Men’s 200 Free Relay Wins To Highlight Wooster Invite Day 1

Ashland University's men's and women's swimming and diving teams opened action at the Wooster Invitational on Thursday (Dec. 5), and both Eagle teams are in third place in the team standings.
 
The Eagle men's 200-yard freestyle relay quartet earned a win on Thursday night, as sophomore Colin Pham and juniors Andrew Oates, Cole Huebner and Nick Girz finished in 1:24.54.
 
Each of AU's teams picked up a runner-up showing in the 400 medley relay. The men's team of Pham, Girz, sophomore Evan Kemp and Huebner was second in 3:27.23, and the women's team of freshman Yasmim Tomita, senior Colleen Cox, and sophomores Juliana Pignato and Payton O'Toole took second in 3:59.21.

• Fifth place – men's 200 medley relay of Kemp, senior Robin Falk, freshman William Collins and junior Jack Elliott in 1:26.33.
• Fifth place – women's 200 free relay of freshmen Raechel Serafimov and Brooke Patel, sophomore Payton Meyer and Cox in 1:41.66.
• Seventh place – women's 400 medley relay of junior Mary Kate Prall, Patel, Meyer and Serafimov in 4:11.76.
• Seventh place – men's 400 medley relay of Collins, Elliott, Hagan and junior Andrew Oates in 3:33.39.
• Eighth place – women's 200 free relay of junior Jillian Hull, sophomore Delaney Spradlin, Prall and Tomita in 1:44.39.

Ashland's women are third out of nine teams with 416.5 points (Edinboro first with 456.5), and the Eagle men are third of eight teams with 424 points (Rose-Hulman first with 452).
 
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Day 2 of the Wooster Invitational on Friday (Dec. 6), starting at 10 a.m..