Swim And Dive Opens the Richmond Duals with a Win over Davidson

Friday, October 22

Swimming - SwimRVA | Diving - Robins Center Natatorium

4:30 (Diving) 5:00 (Swimming)

University of Richmond

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Davidson (Richmond Duals)

Photo by: Spiders Athletics

Swim And Dive Opens the Richmond Duals with a Win over Davidson

10/22/2021 | Women's Swimming & Diving

Richmond Duals - Day 1

RICHMOND, Va. – The University of Richmond swim and dive team took on the Davidson Wildcats in the first round of the Richmond Duals Friday night. The Spiders earned a 162-137 victory over the Wildcats. The Spiders advance to take on the George Mason Patriots tomorrow morning after the Patriots defeated the East Carolina Pirates 166-105.

Sophomores Megan Carson (Apex, N.C.) and Petra Mijic (Split, Croatia) got the day started with a second and third place finish in the 1650 freestyle in times of 17:44.14 and 17:58.81, respectively.

The 200 medley relay team of Katelyn Pennell (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Sara Greene (Tega Cay, S.C.), Claire O'Shaughnessy (Laurel, Md.) and Lauren Medlin (Cary, N.C.) took first with a 1:45.44 time. Mattie Williams (Lake George, N.Y.), Christina Levins (Moorestown, N.J.), Abby Fuller (Charlottesville, Va.) and Lucy Yeomans (Athens, Ga.) finished third at 1:46.41.

Maggie Purcell (Southampton, N.Y.) took home the top time in the 200 freestyle at 1:53.09. Williams finished first in the 100 backstroke (58.51) and Greene was first in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.61). Freshman Levins took third at 1:06.06.

The duo of O'Shaughnessy and Emma Martin (Knoxville, Tenn.) took second and third in the 200 butterfly with times of 2:07.76 and 2:08.06, respectively. The 50 freestyle saw Fuller and Medlin finish 1-2, with Fuller taking the top time at 23.70, and Medlin at 23.89.

Purcell notched another first-place finish, this time with a 2:05.01 time in the 200 backstroke, followed by a third-place finish by freshman Carstyn Klosterman (Winston-Salem, N.C.) at 2:09.17.

Greene earned a first-place finish in the 200 breaststroke at 2:20.01. Medlin took first in the 100 freestyle, edging Davidson's Abby Francis by .01 seconds at 51.86. Yeomans was third at 52.79. The top Spider in the 500 freestyle was freshman Laura Davis (Charlotte, N.C.), finishing second at 5:06.64.

The 100 butterfly saw four Spiders take second through fifth. The finishers were Fuller (56.42), O'Shaughnessy (57.11), Rachel Pak (Fairfax, Va.) (58.96) and Greene (59.40), respectively.

Purcell added another top finish in the 200 IM at 2:06.25, and Davis added a 2:11.00 time for third.

The 400 freestyle relay closed the evening. The Spiders took the top two spots. The quartet of Medlin, Fuller, Yeomans and Purcell swam 3:30.88, and O'Shaughnessy, Palfreyman, Klosterman and Connors were second at 3:36.21.

At Robins Center Natatorium, the divers finished fourth and fifth in the 3-meter competition. Zazi Halla (McLean, Va.) finished at 201.25, and Emma Yeakley (Cornelius, N.C.) was fifth at 196.90. In the 1-meter competition, it was Halla taking third at 195.05, and Yeakley at 192.60 for fourth.

The Spiders are back in the pool tomorrow morning. Diving begins at 9:30, and swimming at 10:15.

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