Hunt Wins 3-Meter Diving Title On Second Day Of League Championships

The success at the conference level for Ashland University divers continued on Thursday (Feb. 15) night, as freshman Riley Hunt won her first Great Midwest Athletic Conference / Mountain East Conference Championships title in women's 3-meter diving.
 
Hunt finished with 400.75 points to win the title, while sophomore Maddi Whitticar was second with 381.60 points.
 
Those diving points helped Ashland's women move up to fourth place in the Championships standings with 311 team points. Findlay is first (993), followed by Hillsdale (747.5) and Frostburg State (446).
 
Also scoring for the Eagle women on Thursday night were:

• The 400-yard medley relay team of sophomore Mary Kate Prall, junior Colleen Cox, freshman Juliana Pignato and freshman Payton O'Toole (fourth, 4:01.77).
• O'Toole (sixth, 1:55.05), sophomore Paige Nicholson (20^th, 2:00.98), and freshman Nykole Doerner (21^st, 2:01.85) in the 200 freestyle.
• Freshman Rachel Stanchek (12^th, 4:52.87) in the 400 individual medley.
• Pignato (13^th, 59.68 seconds) and freshman Payton Meyer (21^st, 1:02.02) in the 100 butterfly.

On the men's side, six Eagles combined for 110 team points in the 400 IM alone – freshman Evan Kemp (fourth, 4:09.39), senior Josh Hagan (fifth, 4:13.08), sophomore Nick Olquin (sixth, 4:13.33), sophomore Ryan Mohler (seventh, 4:14.05), sophomore Ayden Mason (18^th, 4:36.59), and sophomore Josh Bachinsky (20^th, 4:41.50).
 
Ashland's men are third in the team standings with 320 points, behind only Findlay (984) and Frostburg State (604).
 
The men's 400 medley relay quartet of freshman Colin Pham, sophomore Nick Girz, Kemp and sophomore Andrew Oates finished as the runner-up on Thursday night in 3:25.84.

• In the men's 200 free, sophomore Cole Huebner was 10^th in 1:45.19, freshman Grant Brown was 16^th in 1:47.85, sophomore Jason Basile took 17^th in 1:47.48, and junior Weston Brown finished 22^nd in 1:51.70.
• The men's 100 fly saw Pham finish 14^th in 51.58 seconds.

UP NEXT
Day 3 of the Championships on Friday (Feb. 16).