Swimming: Olivet sits sixth at MIAA Championship

HOLLAND, Mich. – The University of Olivet men's and women's swimming teams are in sixth-place after the second day of the 2024 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Championship at the Holland Aquatic Center.

• The 200-yard freestyle relay quartet of junior Mya Kinnunen, freshman Sophia Spahr, sophomore Kelsee Lawson and senior Erin Sanders placed sixth among A relays (1:55.20).
• The 400-yard medley relay team of Kinnunen, sophomore Bridgette Shroll, senior Jennifer Mann and freshman Sophia Spahr finished sixth among A relays (4:15.75).
• After the morning preliminaries, Mann swam a time trial in the 100-yard breaststroke and broke the school record with a time of 1:04.95.
• In the preliminaries, Olivet recorded three personal-best times:
  • Lawson in the 500-yard freestyle (5:48.78)
  • Kinnunen in the 50-yard freestyle (28.08)
  • Sanders in the 200-yard individual medley (2:49.89)

• The 200-yard freestyle quartet of freshman Tyler Ball, senior Dylan Lyons, sophomore Matthew Brown and freshman Logan Weicht finished sixth among the A relays (1:32.38).
• The 400-yard medley team of Lyons, junior Landon Morgan, junior Treyton Gabrielson and junior Seth Kading, placed fifth among A relays (3:36.21).
• Achieving personal bests in the preliminaries were:
  • Gabrielson in the 500-yard freestyle (4:56.50)
  • Brown in the 500-yard freestyle (5:06.66)
  • Weicht in the 50-yard freestyle (23.61)
  • Sophomore Jack Pendell in the 50-yard freestyle (24.89)

• The third day of the MIAA Championship is tomorrow with preliminaries in the 400-yard individual medley, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke and 100-yard backstroke, beginning at 10 a.m. The finals in these events along with the 200-yard medley relay will start at 5 p.m.