Trinity Secures 22nd Consecutive SCAC Women's Swimming & Diving Championship

Trinity Secures 22nd Consecutive SCAC Women's Swimming & Diving Championship

GARLAND, Texas -- Trinity University breezed to its 22nd consecutive conference title at the 2025 SCAC Women's Swimming & Diving Championship which wrapped up Saturday evening at the Garland ISD Natatorium. Official Website | Saturday's Complete Results | Saturday Diving Results | Complete Meet Results w/Team Scores | Photo Gallery | Diving PhotosVideo Interviews Playlist

The 22 consecutive conference titles is the longest consecutive championship streak in SCAC history in any sport. The last time Trinity did not claim the SCAC women's swimming title (2003), almost the entirety of its current roster was not yet born. 

Trinity finished with 1,114 points while Colorado College was second with 815 points and Southwestern University was third with 551. Rounding out the standings, University of the Ozarks finished fourth with 314 points, Austin College was fifth with 266 points, Centenary College finished sixth with 265 points, McMurry University was seventh with 210 points, and University of St. Thomas finished eighth with 115 points.

The 1,114 points are the second-most by one team in a SCAC championship meet and the 299 point margin of victory is the fourth-largest in the 27-year history of the event.

Amy Benson of Trinity was named the Swimmer-of-the-Meet as the sophomore earned individual titles in the 50 free, 100 free and 200 free, posting NCAA 'B' cuts in each, and was also part of all five of the Tigers' winning relay teams - the 200, 400 and 800 freestyle relays as well as the 200 and 400 medley relays. 

Diver-of-the-Meet honors went to Emma Krasemann of Colorado College for the second consecutive year as she won the three-meter competition and finished second on the 1-meter board.

The Trinity University coaching staff - led by head coach Cathleen Pruden along with assistant coaches Mabel Fowler, George Black and Tommy Law - earned SCAC Women's Coaching Staff-of-the-Year honors. The award marked the second time in three years Pruden and her staff have been honored and the 15th time the program has been recognized on the women's side.

Keller Pooley of Colorado College earned her first career title, taking top honors on the 1-meter board on Saturday. She finished second in the event last year as a freshman. Pooley led wire-to-wire over her teammate Emma Krasemann, and finished with a score of 414.00 - good for a NCAA 'B' cut. Krasemann, who won the event last year, had to settle for a runner-up finish after posting a score of 406.50 (also good for a NCAA 'B' cut). Trinity's Charlotte Brod rounded out the top three with a mark of 329.55. 1-Meter Interview

In the evening session's first event, Trinity's Erin Morie secured her first SCAC individual title, taking top honors in the 1650-yard freestyle in a time of 17:45.69. She finished runner-up in the event a year ago. Morie's win marked the first for a Trinity swimmer in the event since Anabelle Conde in 2020 and she is the ninth different TU swimmer to take gold in the event at the confernece championships. Colorado College's Kylie Spalt finished second with a time of 18:09.04 and McMurry's Caitlyn Sauer-Newell took third in 18:25.93 - the War Hawks' first individual all-confernece performance of the meet. 1,650-Yard Freestyle Interview

After finishing third last year, Trinity's Audrey Jacobson bounced back to earn her second title in three years in the 200-yard backstroke, touching first at this year's meet in a time of 2:04.02. She and current Trinity assistant coach Mabel Fowler have accounted for six of the last seven wins at the conference meet, a streak that was just snapped last year when Austin College's Sammi Thiele took top honors at the 2024 championships. Southwestern's Ellie Samples placed second in a time of 2:06.22 and Southwestern's Mallory DeArmond was third in 2:09.60. 200-Yard Backstroke Interview

Amy Benson of Trinity posted her third individual win of the championships and the sixth of her career with Saturday evening's win in the 100-yard freestyle. The victory completed her sweep of the 50 free, 100 free and the 200 free, which she had also done the previous year, making her the only swimmer in league history to have accomplished the feat in back-to-back championships. Benson touched first in a time of 50.58, good for a NCAA 'B' cut. Teammate Julia Carter finished second in a time of 51.95 and Colorado College's Julia Cox closed out the all-SCAC team with a third-place finish in 52.42. 100-Yard Freestyle Interview

Neely Burns of Trinity posted her third consecutive win in the 200-yard breaststroke, making her just the third swimmer in league history to three-peat in the event (Catie Baker of DePauw in 2009-11 and Rehgan Hartsell of Southwestern from 2019-21). The junior, who touched first in a time of 2:18.00 (which was good for a NCAA 'B' cut), now possesses the three fastest times in SCAC championship meet history in the event. The victory was her third of the meet and the ninth gold medal of her career, leaving her in seventh place alone on the career championship individual wins list. Colorado College's Malia Hewitt placed second in a time of 2:22.64 and Centenary's Hannah Waddell finished third in a time of 2:24.59, posting her second all-conference finish of the championship to become the first Centenary swimmer to double up with all-SCAC honors at a single meet since Brianna Serret at the 2022 championships. 200-Yard Breaststroke Interview

Trinity's Erin Morie picked up her second win of the night, bookending her win in the 1,650 freestyle with a victory in the 200-yard butterfly. Touching first in a time of 2:07.75, Morie became just the second swimmer in league history to win the 1,650 free and the 200 fly on the same night at the same meet, following Southwestern's Ashley Harmon who accomplished the feat at the 2019 championships. Alyssa Tunggal of Colorado College, who was third in the event at the 2024 championships, placed second this year in a time of 2:09.84. Diane Park of Trinity took third in a time of 2:13.69. 200-Yard Butterfly Interview

Trinity ended the night continuing its dominance in the 400-yard freestyle relay as the Tigers won the event for the ninth consecutive time and the 12th time in the past 14 years. The Tiger quartet of Jacobson, Burns, Carter, and Benson touched the wall first with a time of 3:26.30, setting a new SCAC championship and open record in the process while also hitting the NCAA 'B' cut standard. Colorado College took second clocking a time of 3:30.22 while Southwestern was third in 3:35.26. 400-Yard Freestyle Relay Interview

Notes: A total of three SCAC women's championship meet records were set during the week including the 200 medley relay, 200 free relay, and the 200 freestyle. In addition to the three records, SCAC swimmers tallied nine NCAA 'B' cut times. 

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