To close out the 2025-26 season-opening Oberlin Early Invite on Saturday (Oct. 11), Ashland University's men's and women's swimmers and divers combined for nine first-place finishes.
Sophomore
Yasmim Tomita was an individual champion in both the women's 100-yard backstroke (57.69 seconds) and women's 200 back (2:06.89), and teamed up with senior
Colleen Cox and juniors
Hannah Yemec and
Payton O'Toole to win the women's 200 medley relay in 1:49.05.
Senior
Joey Lenczyk won both the men's 1-meter (238.45 points) and 3-meter (248.60) diving, while O'Toole also won the women's 200 free in 1:58.52.
Junior
Evan Kemp won the men's 100 butterfly (49.27 seconds), junior
Riley Hunt took women's 1-meter diving (237.70 points), and the men's 400 free relay of senior
Robin Falk, freshman
Ryan McEvilly, and seniors
Cole Huebner and
Nick Girz won in 3:07.71.
Both Eagle teams finished in second place at Oberlin – the women second of five teams (924 team points, Case Western Reserve 1,299.5), and men second of four teams (990 team points, Case Western Reserve 1,688.5).
SECOND PLACE – Girz in the men's 100 breaststroke (58.37 seconds), Kemp in the men's 200 fly (1:54.74), O'Toole in the women's 100 free (55.54 seconds), Hunt in women's 3-meter diving (212.05 points), junior
Colin Pham in the men's 100 back (51.96 seconds), senior
Andrew Oates in the men's 100 individual medley (54.11 seconds), the men's 200 medley relay of Pham, senior
Jack Elliott, Kemp and Girz (1:33.57); the women's 800 free relay of O'Toole, Yemec, Tomita and junior
Juliana Pignato (8:12.70); and the women's 400 free relay of Pignato, freshman
Kit Kat Anderson, O'Toole and Yemec (3:41.35).
THIRD PLACE – Pignato in the women's 100 free (55.68 seconds), Falk in the men's 100 free (47.28 seconds), sophomore
Brooke Patel in the women's 200 breaststroke (2:31.84), senior
Maddi Whitticar in women's 1-meter diving (216.90 points), freshman
Macey Wade in women's 3-meter diving (194.60 points), and the men's 800 free relay team of Falk, Huebner, freshman
Lucas Leibrand and Kemp (7:10.01).
FOURTH PLACE – Anderson in the women's 200 free (2:02.59), Cox in the women's 100 breaststroke (1:10.44), Oates in the men's 100 breaststroke (59.17 seconds), Yemec in the women's 200 fly (2:12.95), Whitticar in women's 3-meter diving (184.95), freshman
Cooper Young in the men's 200 breaststroke (2:12.21), freshman
Altin Rowland in men's 3-meter diving (140.45 points), the men's 200 medley relay of sophomore
William Collins, Oates, sophomore
Daniel Correa Hammer and McEvilly (1:36.62); and the men's 400 free relay quartet of Oates, Kemp, Pham and Elliott (3:12.33).
FIFTH PLACE – Collins in the men's 100 back (53.10 seconds), Basile in the men's 1,650 free (16:56.18), senior
Mary Kate Prall in the women's 200 back (2:17.01), Rowland in men's 1-meter diving (128.00 points), freshman
Trei Durstine in the men's 100 free (47.86 seconds), sophomore
Ella Howard in women's 1-meter diving (176.05 points) and the women's 800 free relay of freshmen
Katelyn Claugus and
Joselyn Hensley, Prall and junior
Payton Meyer (8:57.91).
NEXT UP
A Great Midwest Athletic Conference dual at 5 p.m. on Friday (Oct. 17) at Findlay.
