WOOSTER, Ohio – Championship finals filled with College of Wooster swimmers and divers was the theme on the final night of the Wooster Invitational. Wooster broke two records and won three events on the final day of the program's annual midseason meet at Ellen Shapiro Natatorium. Wooster's men's climbed the leaderboard to second at 1,331.5 points, while the women solidified a strong hold on a runner-up finish with 1,598.5 points.

Junior Tucker Andrewjeski was the first record smasher of the day. The breaststroke specialist took down Evan Hagedorn's 200-yard time of 2:07.46 from 2015 with a 2:06.73 in prelims, then was slightly faster in finals, going 2:06.48 for a fifth-place showing. Senior Josh Pearson was the other record-breaker, taking down Doak Schultz's 52.41 from 2022 in the 100 individual medley. Pearson went 52.37 in finals, which was the fourth-place time in the field.

Junior JP Timken was Wooster's first winner of the night, taking the mile in 17:48.03. Timken lowered an already-held 10th-fastest time in program history, while her 1,000 time of 10:45.79 rates as the ninth-best in the program annals. Senior Emma Connors (fifth, 18:24.22) and first-year Kate Peck (eighth, 18:34.08) backed up Timken's winning effort.

Later, Wooster's top butterfly swimmers dominated once again, with junior Ollie Bream winning for the third time of the invite and Pearson scoring a second first-place finish. Bream's 200-yard time of 2:06.15 ranked nearly seven seconds ahead of University of Cumberlands' Filippa Malmstrom's runner-up 2:13.12. Pearson was seeded third heading into finals and surged to the head of the pack at 1:51.17. Junior Isaac Shaker went 1:56.40 to place fourth in the men's race, while Murray claimed eighth on the women's side with a 2:21.11.

Junior Izzy Bellefleur's 1:04.32 was the runner-up time in the 100 individual medley. The breaststroke and individual medley specialist was joined in the championship final by junior Vicky Maumbe (fourth, 1:07.31), first-year Anna Lundquist (sixth, 1:08.38), and sophomore Patricia Chen (seventh, 1:08.54).

Senior Maddie Becker captured third in the 200 breaststroke with a 2:26.37. Not far behind was Bellefleur, who notched a second championship final placement on the night with a 2:29.48, which was the sixth-place time. The 400 freestyle relay team of junior Hallie Findlan, Becker, Connors, and Bream capped the meet with a 3:37.41, which was the third-place time.

Findlan went 53.22 for fourth in the 100 freestyle. First-year Charlotte Helm led two championship final placers in the 200 backstroke with the fifth-place time of 2:12.27. Sophomore Emma Humbert took eighth at 2:13.59, while junior Mariam Zayour's 2:15.33 won the consolation final.

On the men's side, sophomore Callum Glover nearly took down a 23-year-old school record in the 100 freestyle. Glover's 46.03, which was the fifth-place time, only ranks behind the 45.37 logged by 13-time All-American Wes Bennett in 2000. Sophomore Flynn Cowie touched fifth in the 100 individual medley, stopping the clock at 54.73. Cowie's 54.71 from prelims rates as the sixth-fastest time in the event in program history. First-year Ryan Stokes went and captured the consolation final with a time of 56.34.

Pearson, junior Ryan Gross, sophomore Boston Sullivan, and Glover rounded out the action with the sixth-place time of 3:09.57 in the 400 freestyle relay.

Sophomore Leo Edmonds-Doberenz continued to score big contributions in the diving well, scoring 278 points on the one-meter board to place seventh. First-year Philipp Drappatz was a championship-final placer in the mile, finishing the event at 17:26.46, which was eighth.

Elsewhere, Sullivan cracked Wooster's top-10 list with a 2:11.12 in the 200 breaststroke on his way to a 10th-place finish. Junior Max Likins' 11th-place time of 1:57.30 was Wooster's best in the 200 backstroke.

Cumberlands swept the team titles with 2,291.5 points on the men's side and 1,826.5 on the women's.

Wooster returns to action at Ohio Northern University at 6 p.m. on January 12. The meet is a tri-meet with Bluffton University also competing.