Swimming & diving teams fall to Hope

OLIVET, Mich. – The Olivet College men's and women's swimming & diving teams hosted Hope College for their first Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) dual meets of the season. The Comet men fell to the Flying Dutchmen, 163-126, and the Comet women lost 133-106 to the Flying Dutch.

• In the opening event -- 200-yard medley relay – the Olivet team freshman Seth Kading, junior Takato Timmerman, junior Jacob Ritter and junior Carter Moore out-touched the Hope relay at the wall by 0.21 seconds. Their winning time was 1:34.27.
• Kading won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:52.27.
• Timmerman took first in the 100-yard breaststroke at 1:01.57.
• Ritter was first in the 200-yard individual medley at 2:06.77.
• Freshman Gavin Sutton swept the diving events. He scored 231.50 points on the one-meter board and 248.15 points on the three-meter board. The three-meter total ranks sixth all-time at Olivet for a six-dive program.
• Second-place finishes were by Kading in the 200-yard backstroke (2:14.24), Timmerman in the 100-yard freestyle (49.84), junior Parker Brown in the 500-yard freestyle (5:19.50), freshman Josh Fountain in the one-meter diving (177.00), freshman Spenser Keene in the three-meter diving (160.25) and sophomore Dylan Lyons in the 100-yard backstroke (1:00.87).

• Sophomore Jennifer Mann won the 200-yard freestyle in a pool-record time of 1:57.42. She also took first-place in the 200-yard breaststroke at 2:28.42.
• Senior Kayla Eichaker was first in the 100-yard freestyle, out-touching a Hope swimmer by 0.09 seconds. Her winning time was 57.50 seconds.
• Sophomore Kinsley Noel finished second in the 1,000-yard freestyle at 12:33.82.

• The Comets return to the pool next Friday, October 29, at Alma College. Action gets under way at 6 p.m.