Lewis vs Butler vs Valparaiso
- December 1, 2023
- Valparaiso, Ind.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Lewis Athletics
VALPARAISO, Ind. — On Friday afternoon (Dec. 1), the Lewis Women’s Swim Team triumphed against Valparaiso, scoring 190-72, and secured a win against Butler, scoring 136-126. The Men’s Team dominated with a score of 199-63 over Valparaiso.
WOMEN’S SCORE
Lewis 190, Valparaiso 72
Lewis 136, Butler 126
WOMEN’S TOP FINISHERS
200 Yard Medley Relay
1. Ioanna Palla (Athens, Greece/Fresno Pacific) –
2. Magdalena Wlodarkiewicz (Warszawa, Poland/CXXXVII Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Roberta Schumana) –
3. Aubrey Fischer (Lawrence, Kansas/Lawrence) –
4. Riley Byers (Cumming, GA/Barton College) –
Total Time – 1:47.87
1000 Yard Freestyle
Brynn (Billie) Koehler (Englewood, CO/Grandview High School) – 10:48.94
200 Yard Freestyle
Luna Cueva Schafer (Playa Del Carmen, Mexico/The Trents) – 1:56.92
50 Yard Backstroke
Palla – 27.96
50 Yard Breaststroke
Wlodarkiewicz – 29.95
100 Yard Butterfly
Fischer – 1:01.07
50 Yard Freestyle
Byers – 24.58
100 Yard Freestyle
Schafer – 54.02
100 Yard Backstroke
Palla – 1:00.69
100 Yard Breaststroke
Wlodarkiewicz – 1:05.70
500 Yard Freestyle
Wiktoria Cioch-Gradzik (Slaska, Poland/X High School of Sports Championship) – 5:20.04
50 Yard Butterfly
Riley – 27.22
200 Yard IM
Larissa Alves (Panama/Colegio De La Salle) – 2:14.26
200 Yard Freestyle Relay
1. Wlodarkiewicz – 24.74
2. Palla – 25.22
3. Cueva – 24.61
4. Byers – 23.92
Total Time – 1:38.49
MEN’S SCORE
Lewis 199, Valparaiso 63
MEN’S TOP FINISHERS
200 Yard Medley Relay
1. Colin Bade (La Grange Park, Ill./Lyons Townshop) – 24.41
2. Kirill Sidorko (Almaty, Kazakhstan/Almaty) – 25.51
3. Davidson Vincent (Thomonde, Haiti Westlake Preparatory School) – 22.41
4. Otavio Cunha (São Paulo, Brazil/Colegio Amorim Tatuape) – 20.91
Total Time – 1:33.24
1000 Yard Freestyle
Juan Jose Castro (Cali, Colombia/Corporacion Cultural Colegio Aleman) – 9:35.65
200 Yard Freestyle
Vincent – 1:45.15
50 Yard Backstroke
Bade – 24.22
50 Yard Breaststroke
Sidorko – 26.24
100 Yard Butterfly
Jordan Yip (Shah Alam, Malasya/University of South Carolina) – 51.84
50 Yard Freestyle
Ahmed Ismail (Cairo, Egypt/Victory American College Cairo) – 21.11
100 Yard Freestyle
Sidorko – 47.26
100 Yard Backstroke
Bade – 52.23
100 Yard Breaststroke
Ismail – 57.00
500 Yard Freestyle
Castro – 4:38.19
50 Yard Butterfly
Yip – 23.12
200 Yard IM
Sidorko – 1:56.56
200 Yard Freestyle Relay
1. Ismail – 21.46
2. Otavio – 21.35
3. Mykhailo Semenov (Donetsk, Ukraine/Emmanuel University) – 20.75
4. Vincent – 21.37
Total Time – 1:24.93
UP NEXT
Lewis University’s men’s and women’s swimming teams will return to action after the New Year on January 13th, hosting Davenport at 1 p.m. CT.
Courtesy: Butler Athletics
VALPARAISO – The Butler swim team defeated Valpo and was narrowly defeated by Lewis this weekend in a meet hosted by the Beacons. Alani Hightower-Bend and Lauren Bergman were recognized as the BU Swimmers of the Meet. Hightower-Bend won two of her events and dominated the 200 Free Relay with a 23.67 split. Bergman won the 50 Fly.
“It was great to watch this team have so much success at this meet after a hard week of training,” Assistant Coach Allie Carmichael stated. “Winning six events and being so close to such a competitive team shows the toughness and grit this team demonstrates every day at practice. It was fun to watch many girls evolve their race strategies after the House of Champions meet and gives us all confidence that this team has big things in store for the remainder of the season!”
Hightower-Bend won the 50 Back with a time of 27.21 and Gianna Leffler came up with a third-place finish (28.46). In the 100 Free, Hightower-Bend finished first (53.77), Olivia Stotts ended up in third (54.25) and Grace Crane was fifth (56.39).
Hightower-Bend, Stotts, Bergman and Emily Landwehr made up the BU 200 Free Relay Team. They won the event with a time of 1:37.70. The Butler B Team posted a time of 1:44.06 and the C Team went 1:46.60.
In the 200 Medley Relay, Hightower-Bend, Landwehr, Kate Schilling and Stotts placed second (1:53.32). The B Team finished at 1:53.72 and the C Team posted a time of 1:57.78.
Bergman used fast turns to win the 50 Fly for BU. She clocked in at 27.10 and Megan VanValkenburgh was also involved with a fourth-place finish (28.83).
The Bulldogs got another win in the 200 IM. Schilling led all student-athletes with a time of 2:13.10 and Sadie Brown finished third (2:15.53). Schilling also won the 100 Fly (1:00.65) with Bergman close behind in second (1:00.83).
Landwehr had second place finishes for Butler in the 50 and 100 Breast. She swam the 50 in 30.50 and the 100 in 1:07.61.
The ‘Dawgs got awesome performances from Olivia McKee, Leffler and Caroline Zimner in the 100 Back. The trio finished second, third and fourth with times of 1:01.58, 1:01.66 and 1:03.54.
Elizabeth Naylor came up with one of her fastest dual meet times of the season in the 500 Free (5:23.42). She closed the event well in the last 150 to out touch the third-place finisher by .04. Sam Tomic had a fast time as well to earn fourth (5:32.37).
Zimner and McKee had consistent splits for BU in the 100 Free. Zimner would lead the ‘Dawgs with a third-place finish (11:14.68) and McKee was fifth (11:23.29).
Naylor had a great race strategy in the 200 Free and would end up in third place with a time of 2:00.10. Tomic was just off her best time for fourth place 2:02.97.
Team Scores
Butler 194.5 – Valpo 67.5
Lewis 136 – Butler 126
Courtesy: Valpo Athletics
The Valpo men’s and women’s swimming teams concluded their fall semester competition schedule on Friday at the Valparaiso Aquatic Complex, as the men took on Lewis in a dual meet and the women faced Butler and Lewis in a tri-meet.
How It Happened
- The men had a swimmer crack the program’s all-time best on Friday, as sophomore Luke Snider (Germantown, Tenn./Memphis University School) placed second in the 50 fly in a time of 23.82 —fifth-fastest in program history.
- Two Valpo men led the team in multiple events. Sophomore Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) paced the Beacons in three individual swims — the 50 back, which he placed second in with a time of 24.84, the 100 back (53.19) and the 200 IM, where he posted a runner-up finish with a time of 1:57.56.
- Sophomore Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) led the Valpo contingent in the sprints, recording the team’s top time in both the 50 free (21.96) and the 100 free (47.98).
- On the women’s side, four different Valpo swimmers led the team in two events apiece. Freshman Roxanne Adams (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico/Homeschooled) placed third in the 100 breast with a time of 1:11.21 and also paced Valpo in the 50 breast (32.07).
- The three other Beacon women to pace the squad in multiple events did so in two different disciplines. Freshman Olivia Tressler (Las Vegas, Nev./Desert Oasis) topped the team in the 200 free (2:05.90) and the 200 IM (2:19.06).
- Freshman Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) led the way for Valpo in the 100 fly (1:01.37) and the 500 free (5:38.61).
- Freshman Gretchen Schmierer Knust (Overland Park, Kan./Shawnee Mission South) paced the Beacons in the 100 back (1:03.61) and the 50 fly (28.83).
- The Valpo men fell to Lewis in dual meet action, 199-63, while the women dropped dual meet decisions to both Lewis (190-72) and Butler (194.5-67.5).
Next Up
Valpo returns to the pool in 2024 when it heads to Rose-Hulman on Friday, January 12.