Olivet sits in fourth after day two of MIAA Swimming & Diving Championships

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The Olivet College men's and women's swimming & diving teams has wrapped-up the second day of competition at the 2018 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Championships, hosted by Calvin College and at the Venema Aquatic Center in Grand Rapids. After day two, the Comet women are in fourth-place with 109 points. The men's team also sits in fourth-place with 96 total points. Due to MIAA sanctions, Kalamazoo College swimmers can compete in events but are not accumulating a team score.

FOR THE WOMEN

• Ana Paula Montes de Oca won the 500-yard freestyte in a school-record time of 5:00.87. The last Olivet women's swimmer to win an individual event at the MIAA Championship was Amy Johnson (50-yard freestyle in 2009).
• The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Katie Hansel, Keanalanimeleo'kekai Kunz, Sabrina Butler and Delaney Graham finished in fifth-place and stopped the clock at 1:44.01.
• The 400-yard medley relay team of Samantha Butler, Kunz, Montes de Oca and Graham placed sixth with a time of 4:18.28.
• Despite not advancing to the finals, the trio of Hansel, Sabrina Butler and Abby Campbell all set season-best times in the prelims of the 50-yard freestyle at 25.87, 26.57 and 26.88 seconds, respectively.
• By virtue of her preliminary score, Abbie Slater finished 10th in three-meter diving with 237.05 points.

FOR THE MEN

• In the 500-yard freestyle, Eric Wood won the consolation heat to finish ninth overall. He completed the race in a personal-best time of 4:47.66. Zach Meharg finished 14th in the 500 free with a career-best time of 4:58.58.
• The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Ian Bishop, Tom Decker, Gabe Collins and Wood placed fifth with a time of 1:29.87.
• The 400-yard medley relay team of Bryan Plesner, Tony Farmer, Collins and Wood also finished in fifth-place with a time of 3:46.35.
• Despite not making it back to the finals, Bishop, Decker and Collins all swam season-best times in the prelims of the 50-yard freestyle at 23.17, 23.29 and 23.57 seconds, respectively.
• Farmer had a season-best time of 2:18.31 in the prelims of the 200-yard individual medley.
• Dalton Miner scored a career-best 356.95 points on the one-meter diving board to finish in 10th-place.

UP NEXT

• The third day of the championships starts tomorrow morning with preliminaries at 10 a.m., and finals in the same events at 5:30 p.m. Friday's events include the 200 medley relay, 400 individual medley, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke and women's 1-meter diving.