Swimming & diving teams compete at the Carthage Classic

KENOSHA, Wis. – The Olivet College men's and women's swimming & diving teams participated in the three-day Carthage Classic, held at the Koenitzer Aquatic Center. The Comet men were seventh of 10 schools, and the Olivet women were 10th of 11 schools.

• Men – 7th-place with 676.50 points
• Women – 10th-place with 521.50 points
• Every swimmer had at least one season-best performance and many posted personal-best performances. A complete list of these performances will be added to this recap later this weekend.

• Thursday night
  • Sophomore Jennifer Mann placed sixth in the 1,650-yard freestyle with a time of 18:21.98.
• Friday morning/night
  • Mann won the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:25.22, which was nearly four seconds faster than the runner-up swimmer. She also finished seventh in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:22.53.
  • Senior Kayla Eichaker took first-place in the 100-yard freestyle "C" final with a season-best time of 56.79 seconds. She also finished 13th in the 100-yard butterfly with a season-best time of 1:02.34.
• Saturday morning/night
  • Mann captured second in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:42.32. Her preliminary time of 4:40.20 shattered the school record by more than six seconds.
  • Eichaker brought home a 12th-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle, stopping the clock in a season-best 25.54 seconds.

• Thursday night
  • The 800-yard freestyle relay team of freshman Seth Kading, junior Carter Moore, junior Jacob Ritter and junior Takato Timmerman finished sixth among the "A" relays, with a time of 7:26.23.
• Friday morning/night
  • Timmerman finished eighth in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:16.60. He also placed 16th in the 100-yard freestyle at a season-best time of 49.39 seconds.
  • Ritter scored 17th-place points in the 100-yard butterfly with a season-best time of 54.28 seconds.
  • The 400-yard medley relay quartet of Kading, Timmerman, Ritter and Moore was sixth among "A" relays with a time of 3:38.87.
  • Freshman Spenser Keene was third on the three-meter diving board, scoring 294.35 points.
• Saturday morning/night
  • Timmerman secured a fourth-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 58.99 seconds. During preliminaries, he had a season-best time of 58.95 seconds. He also had the 12th-best performance in the 100-yard freestyle at a season-best time of 22.17 seconds.
  • Kading and Ritter were 14th and 16th, respectively in the 100-yard backstroke. Kading's time, 56.72 seconds, was a season-best.
  • Keene finished fourth in the one-meter diving with 283.58 points.

• The Comets' next official competition date is Saturday, January 15, 2022, when they host Bethel (Ind.) College at 1 p.m.