Winning 10 events at a tri-meet against Old Dominion and Towson Universities, the men's swimming and diving team (1-4) triumphed to its first win of the season after defeating ODU 143-94. The men, however, lost to Towson 143-91, while the women's team (4-3) swept the Monarchs and the Tigers, winning 149-92 and 155-82, respectively.
"It was a big win for us," said sophomore Kevin Ko about the men's win. "It was good for us to finally get the monkey off our back so to speak."
The men won eight of their ten victories against Old Dominion. Sophomore Teddy Helfers touched the wall first in the 200 butterfly in 1:59.27, while junior Trevor Yates won the 200 freestyle (1:47.13). Sophomore John Humphrey placed first in the 100 free (48.40), and swam his best time in a dual meet to win the 200 individual medley (1:53.90). Freshmen Cooper Moore and Andy Storm creamed Old Dominion in the 500 freestyle (4:50.39) and 100 breaststroke (2:10.22), respectively.
Sophomore Dave Peck, freshman Ben Rowland, Humphrey and junior Chris Brede got things rolling for the Blue Devils when they finished first in the 400 medley relay in 3:32.63, who Helfers swam a season best 9:49.66 to win the 1000 freestyle for two of the Blue Devils' wins against both Towson and ODU.
The women dominated the meet, winning 11 of their 13 events. Juniors Katie Fay, Lauren Cornet, Amy Halligan and freshman Julia Lewis won the 400 medley relay in 3:55.07. Fay also claimed victory in the 200 backstroke in 2:05.78.
Cornet, coming off of two weeks of pneumonia, won individual events in the 50 freestyle (24.61) against Old Dominion and 200 breaststroke (2:22.19) against both teams.
"Towson and Old Dominion have been old competitors," Cornet said. "We match up really well. We wanted to beat those two because of our freshman class. We have a really good freshman class."
Halligan finished the 200 IM in 2:09.17 and 200 butterfly in 2:06.85. Junior Lauren Hancock won the 1000 freestyle in 10:31.50.
Lewis placed first in the 100 freestyle in 54.54 versus Old Dominion and was a member of the winning 400 free relay in 3:36.48, which also featured freshmen Nora Stupp, Katie Ness and Allison Sundberg.
Stupp also won two individual events, the 200 freestyle (1:55.93) and 500 freestyle (5:09.88).
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