Valparaiso vs Wabash vs UIndy
- January 13, 2024
- Toledo, Ohio
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Valpo Athletics
Competing for the second time in less than 24 hours, the Valpo men’s swimming team earned a dual meet win over host Wabash Saturday afternoon, while the Beacon women swam to a tie against defending D-II national runners-up UIndy.
How It Happened
- Swimming a double dual meet, Valpo’s men earned a 170-124 win over Wabash, while falling 156-104 to defending D-II national champion UIndy. Meanwhile, the women had a single dual against UIndy and finished in a 129-129 draw against the Greyhounds.
- Three Beacon men earned individual event wins in Saturday’s action. Ricky Helmboldt (Tucson, Ariz./Arizona Connections Academy) took first place with a time of 10:04.07 in the 1000 free.
- Tim Mai (St. Johns, Fla./Creekside) earned top honors in the 200 fly, touching the wall in 1:57.62, while classmate Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) rounded out the trio of individual event victories with a time of 1:58.36 in the 200 IM.
- Two Valpo men posted a pair of second-place finishes apiece. Garrett Hoppman (Midland, Texas/Midland) came home second in the 200 fly (2:00.39) and the 100 fly (52.69), while Andrew Berzai (South Bend, Ind./Mishawaka Marian) finished as runner-up in the 200 breast (2:10.33) and the 200 IM (1:59.19).
- Dathan Wolf (Columbus, Ind./Columbus East) picked up a second-place finish in the 100 back (53.99) and Ian Muffett (Zillah, Wash./Zillah) finished second in the 100 breast (59.23).
- On the women’s side, Valpo recorded four individual event wins, two of which came courtesy of Sophie Schoch (Medina, Ohio/Medina). Schoch’s first win came in the 200 back, where she was just .16 off her PR which ranks eighth in program history with a time of 2:11.08. She followed by touching the wall first in the 200 IM (2:16.86).
- Schoch finished the day with three top-two finishes, as she also came home second in the 200 free (2:00.71).
- Emma Schmidt (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley) claimed first place in the 1000 free (11:40.26) and added a second-place finish in the 500 free (5:36.22).
- Avery Ball (Aurora, Ill./Waubonsie Valley) rounded out the individual winners on the women’s side with a top showing of 1:00.44 in the 100 back.
- With every point key in the team scoring in what eventually finished as a tie, Valpo also had two women pick up two second-place finishes apiece. Roxanne Adams (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico/Homeschooled) finished as runner-up in the 100 breast (1:09.23) and the 200 breast (2:32.46), while Bri Keese (Brighton, Colo./Brighton) posted second-place finishes in the 50 free (25.39) and the 100 free (55.45).
Next Up
Valpo’s next foray into competition will be the program’s Senior Meet at the Valparaiso Aquatic Center, as the Beacons take on Bethel in a dual meet on Friday evening, Jan. 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.
Courtesy: Wabash Athletics
The Wabash College swimming and diving team celebrated the career of senior diver Bernardo Morales before the Little Giants’ final home meet of the season on Saturday. The Little Giants lost the double-dual meet with a 178-114 final against the NCAA Division II program from the University of Indianapolis and a 170-124 loss to NCAA Division I Valparaiso University.
Morales, known as “Bear” to his coaches and teammates, scored an individual victory in the three-meter diving event with a score of 134 points. Keane Albright finished second on the three-meter board with 131 points. Christopher Wiatr placed third overall with 130 points. Morales finished second in the one-meter competition with 270.70 points. Alexander Arruza won the event with a score of 274.85. Wiatr scored a third-place finish with 266.10 points.
Quinn Sweeney picked up the only other individual victory for Wabash by placing first in the 500-yard freestyle with a winning time of 4:50.48. Sweeney scored a third-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly by completing the race in 2:00.84.
Xander Straw raced to second place in the 1,000-yard freestyle by finishing with a season-best time of 10:08.19.
Nicholas Plumb placed second in the 200-yard backstroke by finishing the race in 1:55.62. Plumb added a third-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 54.13.
Connor Craig picked up a third-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 22.10. He also placed fourth in the 100-yard freestyle by finishing in 49.08.
The Little Giants closed out the meet with a third-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:28.28.
Wabash travels to IUPUI to compete in a dual meet next Friday at 4 p.m.