All-Conference Honor, School Record, "B" Cut Logged by Scots on Friday at Conference

GRANVILLE, Ohio – Senior Ollie Bream lowered her 400 individual medley school record and logged a NCAA Div. III "B" cut in the process, while The College of Wooster women's swimming and diving team scored all-conference honors on night three of the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships. Wooster's women sit in fourth, while the men rank fifth with one day of competition remaining.

Bream went 4:29.05 in the 400 individual medley prelims, bettering her 2024 school record of 4:29.68. The 4:29.05 is inside the "B" cut standard of 4:29.50 and is about a half second behind the time invited to the 2024 NCAA Div. III Championships. Bream's 4:29.81 ranked sixth in the championship final. The senior was well supported in the event, as Fighting Scots occupied the top-two spots in the consolation final. Senior Mariam Zayour's 4:45.41 was 10th, and right behind was junior Emma Humbert, who went 4:47.10 for 11th. First-year Maggie Layne's 4:59.14 was 15th.

Senior Hallie Findlan, senior JP Timken, sophomore Charlotte Helm, and junior Keara Wiley earned the all-conference honor with the third-place time of 1:38.44 in the 200 freestyle relay.

Elsewhere, senior Izzy Bellefleur qualified for the championship final of the 100 breaststroke and took ninth with a collegiate-best 1:07.07, which rates as the eighth-fastest time in program history. Layne was next for Wooster, placing 14th with a time of 1:10.44. Senior Vicky Maumbe's 16th-place time was 1:11.72.

Earlier in the session, first-year Elizabeth Theobald cracked the program's top-10 in the 100 butterfly, swimming a 58.43, which was the 11th-place time. First-year Alex Hein went 1:02.09 for 17th.

Helm and Findlan placed consecutively in the 100 backstroke, with both competing in the consolation final. Helm touched at 1:01.57 (12th), just ahead of Findlan's 1:01.99 (13th).

Sophomore Rachel Frank led Wooster in the 200 freestyle, taking 16th with a 2:00.08. Junior Bailey Nickols stopped the clock at 2:03.59 for 18th, while sophomore Anna Lundquist's 2:04.14 was the winning time of the bonus heat (19th).

Senior Cady Eakins competed in the prelims of the 1-meter diving and scored 213.5 points. That was good for a 13th.

Junior Callum Glover, sophomore Ethan Neuner, senior Ryan Gross, and junior Will Laubacher comprised Wooster's top 200 freestyle relay, which was sixth with a time of 1:25.98.

Gross and junior Will Laymon were the Scots' Friday men's championship final qualifiers. Gross' eighth-place 200 freestyle swim of 1:44.58 was just off a collegiate-best of 1:44.54 from 2021. Laymon was eighth in the 100 backstroke, coming in at 52.06. Laymon's 51.65 was just shy of the collegiate-best of 51.46 from Thursday's leadoff leg of the 400 medley relay.

Laubacher's 1:44.26 in the 200 freestyle was the winning time for the consolation final. Senior Max Likins went 53.72 for 11th in the 100 backstroke, while senior Aiden Lentz scored with the 16th-place time of 54.59.

Senior Tucker Andrewjeski dropped over five seconds from prelims en route to the 12th-place time of 4:09.92 in the 400 individual medley. Sophomore Ryan Stokes, who was 14th at 4:14.98, debuted on Wooster's top-10 list for the event. Stokes' time is the ninth-fastest in program history. Junior Matt Kaley went 4:21.37 for 17th.

Junior Boston Sullivan improved upon the second-fastest 100 breaststroke time in the program annals with a 57.47 in prelims. His similar time of 57.60 in finals ranked 12th in the field. Senior Nathan Ferrence joined Sullivan with a top-10 program time. Ferrence's 58.78 in finals ranked 13th in the field and is the seventh sub-59-second time in program history. Stokes' 1:00.56 ranked 17th.

Glover went 51.58 to lead Wooster's entries in the 100 butterfly. The junior's 14th-place showing was backed up by Laymon, whose 52.44 was 16th.

Aided by a Denison University relay disqualification, Kenyon College takes a 1,433-1,341 lead over the Big Red into the final day of competition on the women's side. DePauw University is third with 818 points. Wooster's 684 points are comfortably ahead of fifth-place Oberlin College's 559.5

Denison leads Kenyon 1,287-1,074 on the men's side. Wooster (628 points) is looking up the leaderboard at Wabash College and Oberlin, which have 727 and 681 points, respectively.

Photo courtesy of Dani Johnson, NCAC