Emma Fikse

Ryan Campbell

Sophomore Emma Fikse splashed into the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships with a school record and a NCAA Div. III "B" Cut in the 200 freestyle as the leadoff leg of fourth-place 800 freestyle relay as the Fighting Scot women stand in fifth-place with 80 points while the men sit in fourth-place after one event at 58 points.

Fikse hit the wall at 1:51.89, nearly a second better than the "B" cut time of 1:52.86, while her time bested Anna McGlade's 2014 clip of 1:53.21. Overall, Fikse, McGlade, first-year Nell Kacmarek and junior Maggie Layde turned in a 7:43.01, 49-hundredths of a second off of the 2004 school-record clip.

On the men's side, sophomore Cameron Gelwicks, senior Conner Gelwicks, and sophomores Max Koch and Ryan Campbell were equally as impressive with a blistering 6:49.56 to take fourth. In fact, the quartet lowered their own school record in the 800 freestyle from 6:56.38 that they set at last year's NCAC Championships. Individually, Cameron Gelwicks, who led-off the relay, was 14-hunredths of a second off of his school-record pace in the 200 freestyle.

In the diving well, senior Theresa Spadola recorded a score of 306.05 to take 10th on the 3-meter board.

At the end of day one, Denison University leads the women's side with 210 points, followed by Kenyon College (113), Allegheny College (112), Oberlin College (99), Wooster (80), DePauw University (60), Wittenberg University (52), Ohio Wesleyan University (50) and Hiram College (48). On the men's side, Denison leads with 70 points, followed by Kenyon (62), DePauw (60), Wooster (58), Ohio Wesleyan (56), Wabash (54), Allegheny (52), Wittenberg (50) and Oberlin (48).

The Fighting Scots in back in action tomorrow with the preliminary session at 10 a.m. and the finals' session at 6:30 p.m.