Swimming & Diving Celebrates Senior Day with Meet vs. Villanova

Friday, January 13

Richmond, Va.

2:00 p.m. Diving, 4:00 p.m. Swimming

University of Richmond

131

169

Villanova University

Swimming & Diving Celebrates Senior Day with Meet vs. Villanova

01/13/2023 | Women's Swimming & Diving

Richmond, Va. — The University of Richmond swimming and diving team celebrated its six seniors with a home dual meet against Villanova Friday afternoon, with the Wildcats passing the Spiders 169-131 at the Robins Center Natatorium.

Richmond took the top two spots in the 50 free with Abby Fuller taking first with a 23.56 and Lauren Medlin following in second with a 23.81. Julia Krichev rounded out Richmond finishers with a 24.53 posting. Fuller then went on to take the top spot in the 100 fly with a 56.30 posting as Claire O'Shaughnessy took third with a 58.15 and Rachel Pak clocked a 1:00.60 for fourth.

Katie Chignell took first in the 200 free with a 1:54.15, while Lucy Yeomans (5th, 1:56.91) and Alexa Connors (6th, 1:58.04) followed. Yeomans then went on to take third with a 53.05 and Chignell took sixth with a 53.56 in the 100 free.

Megan Carson took third in the 1,000 with a 10:40.12, while Natalie Stuart followed with a 10:41.30 for fourth and Petra Mijic took sixth with an 11:03.25.

The 100 back saw Katelyn Pennell (57.02) take second and Mattie Williams (58.71) finish third while Leigh Spicer touched at 1:03.20 for sixth.

Sara Greene took third in the 100 breast with a 1:06.96 posting, Jenna Miller clocked in at 1:06.96 for fifth and Laura Davis took sixth with a 1:10.37, then Greene took third in the 200 breast with a 2:22.61, Miller swam a 2:26.54 for fifth and Davis finished in sixth with a 2:26.71.

The Spiders went 2-4 in the 200 fly with performances by Emma Martin (2:08.31), O'Shaughnessy (2:09.66) and Pak (2:14.02).

Caroline Weldon took second with a 2:03.02 in the 200 yard back as Pennell followed in third with a 2:03.33 and Carstyn Klosterman clocked a 2:06.36 for sixth.

Alexa Connors and Carson took second and third in the 500 free after Connors clocked a 5:08.52 and Carson finished with a 5:11.74. Mijic followed with a 5:24.39 for sixth.

The 400 IM featured Davis (4:33.84) and Chignell (4:34.26) taking third and fourth, while Stuart took sixth with a 4:42.93.

Richmond took first (1:45.67), third (1:48.36) and fifth (1:52.10) in the 200 medley relay and the Spiders finished first (1:35.13) and third (1:38.36) in the 200 free relay.

The event began with Sally Harrington and Tess Weatherhead representing the Spiders on the diving boards. The duo tied for second on the 3m board, each picking up 236.18 points, while Harrington took second (237.45) and Weatherhead took third (236.70) on the 1m.

Prior to the swimming portion of the meet, Richmond celebrated its six seniors— Sara Greene, Olivia Hutton, Lauren Medlin, Claure O'Shaughnessy, Jenna Miller, Mattie Williams and Rachel Pak.

Up next, the Spiders head to the Bronx for an A-10 tri-meet with Fordham and La Salle.