Anne Bowers

Eli Samuelson

WOOSTER, Ohio – The College of Wooster women's swimming and diving team won 13 of the 14 swimming events and posted the top two times in nine of them, as the Fighting Scots ran away from Westminster College 197-99 on Saturday afternoon at Timken Natatorium. The Titans won on the men's side 183-114.

Eleven different women contributed a first-place finish for Wooster, including juniors Anne Bowers and Hannah Langer, who were part of three events in which Scots placed first and second. Bowers and Langer opened the meet on Wooster's winning 400 medley relay (4:07.14), with junior Brooke Brown and sophomore Molly Likins rounding out the quartet. Langer went on sweep the backstroke events for the second meet in a row, with the English major clocking in at 1:02.40 and 2:16.36 in the 100- and 200-yard races, respectively. Bowers was triumphant in the 100 butterfly (1:01.09) and 200 butterfly (2:16.48).

Senior Nell Kacmarek and Likins were other constants when it came to first-place finishes. For Kacmarek, it was business as usual while competing in a sprint and middle-distance event on Saturday instead of her typical distance freestyle races. The communication sciences and disorders and education major led the way in the 100 (57.75) and 200 freestyles (2:03.14). Later, Kacmarek, first-year Min Kim, and juniors Heidi Likins and Kate Murphy capped the meet with the winning time of 3:52.65 in the 400 freestyle relay.

Molly Likins touched the wall first in the 50 freestyle (25.38) and 200 breaststroke (2:27.13).

Others to win in individual competition were first-year Veda Massanari-Thatcher in the 500 freestyle (5:45.52), first-year Kay Wetmore in the 1,000 freestyle (11:10.72), and junior Madison Whitman in the 100 breaststroke (1:10.44).

Wooster's strongest showing on the men's side came in the backstroke events. There, senior Eli Samuelson touched first in the 100- (57.94) and 200-yard (2:06.25) races. Sophomore Graham Letkeman backed Samuelson up with second-place efforts of 58.04 and 2:09.24 in the 100 and 200 backstroke, respectively, while Wooster had the top three finishers in the 200-yard race, thanks to senior Hunter Pierson's 2:10.64.

Senior Trey Schopen made it 3-for-3 in the 200 butterfly this year, as he had the top time of 2:08.19 on Saturday. The philosophy and religious studies major also won the 100 butterfly at 54.05.

Sophomore Doak Schultz rounded out the winners with a 5:15.95 in the 500 freestyle.

Next, Wooster hosts the University of Mount Union and Thomas More University at 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 16 at Ellen Shapiro Natatorium.