Thanks to four individual wins and one relay victory on Sunday, the Colorado College women's swimming and diving team captured the team title at its own CC Classic for the second consecutive year.
The Tigers finished the meet with 878 points, followed in second place by CSU-Pueblo with 768, Adams State (576), Barton Community College (376), the University of Colorado Club Team (248) and McMurry University (165).
Following up an outstanding Saturday in the pool, junior
Jio Chang and freshmen
Key Macfarland and
Maddie Amick each won an individual race and joined freshman
Kerren Matthews to win the 800-yard freestyle relay race.
Chang, who won two races on Saturday, captured the 100 butterfly event on Sunday, while Macfarland won the 500 freestyle and Amick the 200 backstroke. Sophomore
Emily Erickson finished first in the 200 breaststroke, just ahead of fellow sophomore
Dervla Moore-Frederick, who placed second.
Chang also posted a second-place finish in the 200 IM, while freshman
Ana Mashek was the runner-up to Amick in the 200 backstroke.
Following Macfarland in the 500 freestyle were Matthews (3
rd), Amick (4
th) and Mashek (5
th).
Mashek, senior Chaney Skiling and junior
Alma Jukic swam on the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relay teams that finished third. Erickson joined them on the 200 medley team, while sophomore
Emileigh Rafidi anchored the 800 freestyle squad.
On the men's side, the Tigers finished second, their best finish since a second-place result in 2013.
Colorado School of Mines won the meet with 1,175 points, followed by CC (632), Barton Community College (393), McMurry (280) and the CU Club Team (224).
CC's 800 freestyle relay team of junior
Eric Dallesasse, sophomore
Walker Martin and freshmen Cole and
Cade Thumann posted the best finish of the day, placing second.
Dallesasse finished fifth in the 100 butterfly, seventh in the 200 IM and joined senior
Ethan Schick, sophomore
Baker Casagrande and freshman
Julian Frerichs to place fourth in the 200 medley relay.
Frerichs finished fourth in the 200 backstroke, just ahead of junior
Ethan Hanson, while
Cole Thumann and freshman
Reese Gawronski placed fifth in the 200 IM and 500 freestyle, respectively.
Junior
Michael Heinonen posted a seventh-place finish in the 200 breaststroke and fourth place in the 800 freestyle relay race with Hanson, Gawronski and senior
Johannes Mansson.
The Tigers are idle until the 2019 SCAC Championships, held Feb. 13-16, in San Antonio, Texas.