WEST CHESTER, Pa.- The West Chester University women's swimming and diving team was back in action on Saturday afternoon for the first time in nearly a month when the University of Pennsylvania visited Graham Natatorium. Penn captured the victory winning by a final score of 173-126.
West Chester started off its afternoon with a victory as the Golden Rams captured first place in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of one minute and 46.66 seconds, which was almost three full seconds ahead of the second-place finishing team from Penn.
Georgia Wright (Doncaster, U.K.) followed this up with a victory of her own in the 1000-yard freestyle as she registered a time of 10:20.81, which was five seconds faster than the second-place finisher.
In the 200-yard free,
Julia McCarthy (Bethlehem, Pa./Liberty) earned a victory of her own with a time of 1:54.57 while teammate
Elizabeth Miller (Levittown, Pa./Neshaminy) was third with a time of 1:55.91.
Katelyn Chick (West Chester, Pa./Villa Maria Academy) was the first Golden Ram to touch the wall in the 100-yard breaststroke, as she registered a time of 1:07.34 while teammate
Madison Grenoble (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown STEM Academy) was not far behind in third with a time of 1:07.88.
In the 50-free,
Mikaela Lantz (Reading, Pa./Reading) was the first swimmer to touch the wall with a time of 24.28 seconds while teammate
Sydney Wareham (Mount Joy, Pa./Donegal) was second with a time of 24.53.
Ann Carozza (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) captured another victory for the Golden Rams as she won the 100-free with a time of 51.71 seconds before
Emelie Johansson (Taby, Sweden) took third in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time 2:28.37 to lead the Golden Rams in that event as well.
Wright picked up another top-five finish in the 500-yard free, as she finished in third with a time of 5:11.27 to lead the Golden Rams in this event as well.
Carozza picked up another victory as she registered a time of 56.08 to capture the 100-yard butterfly.
McCarthy picked up another win of her own moments later as she captured the 200-yard Individual Medley (IM) in addition to her victories from earlier in the afternoon.
The final victory of the day for West Chester came in the 200-yard freestyle relay as West Chester registered a time of 1:36.47 to lead the field in this event as well.
Shannon McCabe (Carlisle, Pa./Big Spring) and
Grace Harvey (Norristown, Pa./Norristown) earned top-five finishes off the 3m board in diving as McCabe was third while Harvey was fourth in this event. McCabe and Harvey also captured second and third place, respectively off of the 1m board.
West Chester is slated to be back in the pool on February 9th at the Pre-Championship meet.
