Toledo vs UIndy
- January 13, 2024
- Toledo, Ohio
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Toledo Athletics
TOLEDO, Ohio – Fifth-year senior Lauren Kilgore turned in an outstanding performance in the pool on Saturday, winning the 100 freestyle and 200 IM in record time at the UT Student Recreation Center Pool, leading the Toledo women’s swimming & diving team to a 170-128 victory over Indianapolis.
Toledo won a total of 10 events to cruise to victory. Collectively, the Rockets recorded 30 personal-best or season-best times in their first meet back since the Magnus Cup Invitational on Nov. 16-18.
“I am so proud of the way our team competed this afternoon, being the first meet back since November,” head coach Brie Globig said. “It’s not easy to set a record, let alone a pool record, and Lauren Kilgore did that twice today, so we are all super proud of her.”
Toledo won eight individual events and both relays against the Greyhounds, led individually by Kilgore and Kennedy Lovell, who each had three first-place finishes.
Kilgore started her afternoon with a PR 50.44 touch-time in the 100 freestyle and now ranks eighth overall in Toledo’s all-time record book. She was also clocked in at 2:02.62 to win the 200 IM, to replace UM’s Margrett Kelly’s pool time (2:02.88) set back in 2003. Kilgore also was part of UT’s first-place 200 medley relay team and took second in the 100 breaststroke with her best time of the season (1:03.61).
Lovell, a fifth-year senior, touched the wall with her best times so far this season to win the 200 freestyle and 50 freestyle events at 1:50.04 and 23.14, respectively. Lovell also swam second on UT’s 200 freestyle first-place team.
Junior Faith Sill was speedy in the 100 backstroke, touching first with a PR time of 55.84 that also ranks ninth in program history. She swam the leadoff in UT’s first-place 200 medley relay team.
Freshman Leah Evans beat her previous PR time by nearly five seconds to win the 200 butterfly at 1:03.17. Evans was an integral part of both of the Rockets’ relay wins, participating in the 200 medley and anchor in the 200 freestyle. She also set a PR time of 54.54. to take silver in the 100 butterfly.
On the diving boards, sophomore Annie Bartlett won her first individual event, scoring a PR of 276.38 on the 1M. Senior Madison Giglio won the 3M with a 299.93. Both Bartlette’s and Giglio’s scored rank No.6 all-time for UT.
The meet was bookended by a pair of victories from the Rockets’ relay teams in the 200 medley (1:42.65) and 200 freestyle (1:34.26).
Toledo will next get in the pool with Mid-American Conference opponent Ball State on Saturday, Jan. 20 in Muncie, Ind.
Toledo 170, Indianapolis 128
Toledo’s Top 3 Finishes
200 Medley Relay
1. Toledo A – Faith Sill, Lauren Kilgore, Leah Evans, Janne Slegers – 1:42.65
3. Toledo B – Gracie Pardue, Alicia Zarzo-Ramirez, Sydney Conrad, Mackenzie Carter – 1:45.91
1,000 Freestyle
2. Jovana Duric – 10:25.97
3. Lindsey Creek – 10:38.25 *PR
200 Freestyle
1. Kennedy Lovell – 1:50.04
3. Nejla Karic – 1:53.31
100 Backstroke
1. Faith Sill – 55.84 *PR
100 Breaststroke
2. Lauren Kilgore – 1:03.61
3. Alicia Zarzo-Ramirez – 1:05.66
200 Butterfly
1. Leah Evans – 2:03.17 *PR
50 Freestyle
1. Kennedy Lovell – 23.14
2. Janne Slegers – 23.43
1M Dive
1. Annie Bartlett – 276.38 *PR
3. Ryli Harden – 250.28 *PR
100 Freestyle
1. Lauren Kilgore – 50.44 *PR
2. Janne Slegers – 50.58 *PR
200 Backstroke
2. Faith Sill – 2:02.00 *PR
200 Breaststroke
3. Kennedy Lovell – 2:23.71
500 Freestyle
2. Jovana Duric – 5:06.59
100 Butterfly
2. Leah Evans – 54.54 *PR
3. Sydney Conrad
3M Dive
1. Madison Giglio – 299.93
2. Ryli Harden – 255.38
200 IM
1. Lauren Kilgore – 2:02.62 (Pool record)
3. Faith Sill – 2:07.79
200 Freestyle
1. Toledo A – Janne Slegers, Kennedy Lovell, Sydney Conrad, Leah Evans – 1:34.26
Courtesy: UIndy Athletics
TOLEDO, Ohio—The UIndy swimming & diving teams competed at two different meets Saturday afternoon. Part of the roster went to the University of Toledo, while another faction competed against Valpo and Wabash in Crawfordsville, Ind.
The action was highlighted by a pair of fresh school records, included one that broke one of the oldest marks in the UIndy annals.
FINAL SCORES
Women at Toledo
Toledo 170, UIndy 128
Women at Wabash
UIndy 129, Valparaiso 129
Men at Wabash
UIndy 178, Wabash 114
UIndy 156, Valparaiso 104
AT TOLDEO
Some of UIndy’s fastest swimmers, as well as the team’s divers, headed to Toledo, Ohio to take Division I Toledo (women only) and Findlay. However, the latter could not make it to the meet and thus the UIndy men were unable to count their times for NCAA qualification purposes.
As a result, the men were left with few ways to post remarkable times. Nevertheless, Mihir Ambre was able to etch his name in the UIndy top-10 lists. The graduate transfer posted a winning time of 47.66 in the 100 butterfly, good for the No. 7 spot in the school’s annals.
The top two times came from the UIndy women, however, with a pair of school records falling in the process.
Junior Andrea Gomez continued a breakout junior campaign with an impressive time in the 1000 free. Her name could already be found all over the UIndy top-10 lists, but in her first-ever 1000 race, the versatile Spaniard posted a winning time of 9:58.43, displacing one of the oldest records in the book—Maura Donohue’s 9:59.61 from 2011.
Meanwhile, grad-transfer Stefanie Markwardt also pulled off an historic performance, as her first-place swim in the 100 fly netted a school-record time of 54.45 as well an improved B-cut status.
Both women now rank second in Division II in their respective aforementioned event.
Celina Schmidt won both the 100 and 200 breaststrokes, Sharon Semchiy trimmed her top-10 time in the 200 fly to 2:04.13, while reigning GLVC Athlete of the Week Brynhildur Traustadottir won the 500 and also upped her B-cut status in the 200 free with a second-place time of 1:51.45.
All-American diver Alexis Lumaj took second in the women’s 3-meter dive and third on the 1-meter.
AT WABASH
The balance of the team made the shorter, in-state trek to Crawfordsville, Ind., to face off with host Wabash College (men only) and Valparaiso. The Greyhound men won both of their duals, while the UIndy women tied with DI Valpo.
UIndy swept the breaststroke races, with Sydney Brandt and Mohamed amad winning both the 100 and 200 in the discipline.
A number of other Greyhounds notched a pair of individual victories, including Leticia Vaselli (50 and 100 free), Brooklyn Myers (200 and 500 free), Gabe Bynoe (50 free and 100 fly) and Sam Reiger (100 and 200 back).
Also, Hanna Burke won the 200 fly, Trevor Church was victorious the 100 free and Collin Taylor touched first in the 200 free.
Additionally, the teams competed in the 400 medley relay as well as the 200 free relay, with the Hounds winning all four races.
UP NEXT
The Hounds return to the Circle City to host a dual versus DePauw. The meet is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 4 p.m.