The Colorado College swimming and diving teams opened their 2019-20 seasons Saturday with the Big Cat Relays at Schlessman Natatorium against Colorado School of Mines and Truman State University.
 
The Tigers got off to a solid start with a second-place finish in the meet-opening women's 300 butterfly relay against their Division II opponents. Senior Jio Chang joined freshmen Kate Brush and Millie Benkert for a time of 3:03.81.
 
CC posted several fourth-place results on Saturday, including the 300 backstroke (sophomore Ana Mashek, freshman Maddie Heynen and senior Selma Jukic), 300 breaststroke (junior Dervla Moore-Frederick, sophomore Maddie Amick and senior Hailey Schramm), 200 medley (Benkert, Amick, Brush and freshman Peyton Wright), 200 freestyle (Wright, Heynen, freshman Clara Sato and Schramm), 400 IM relay (Jukic, Chang, Mashek and Schramm) and the 400 freestyle relay (Benkert, Sato, Heynen and Wright).
 
In diving, the Tiger women were the only competitors in the 1-meter event, and freshman Peyton Classon took home first place with a score of 228.45, followed by senior Riley Wadehra with 195.68 points.
 
On the men's side, the foursome of sophomore Cade Thumann and Reese Gawronski, junior Walker Martin and freshman Topher Shepherd finished third in the 800 freestyle relay, one of sevral third-place results for the Tigers.
 
Senior Eric Dallesasse, freshman Will Barber, sophomore Will Floyd and Gawronski placed third in the 200 freestyle relay, as did Barber, Gawronski, Martin and Thumann in the 400 freestyle relay.
 
As with the women, CC had the only divers at the meet, and junior Casey Block won the 1-meter event, followed by freshman Mac O'Brien and sophomore Keelan Woodard.
 
The Big Cats host SCAC foe Southwestern University on Sunday, Oct. 13 at Schlessman Natatorium, beginning at 1 p.m.