Crawfordsville, Ind.- The DePauw women's swimming and diving team beat Eastern Illinois University 156-103 in its dual against the Panthers after recording ten first-place finishes at Wabash.
The Tigers completed the dual with 22 individual top-three finishes and took first and second in both relays.
In the 200-yard medley relay, the team of Maggie Peats, Sammie Waples, Maggie Perry, Tarah Lang took first-place with a time of 1:50.86 and were followed by the team of Hailey Olsen, Elise Umbach, Emily Kaiser, Claire Sweetwood, who finished with a time of 1:54.65 for second place.
Perry, Sweetwood, Lang, and Waples finished first in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:39.26) and were just three seconds ahead of Katherine Kempf, Tara Holder, Mia Hagenauer, and Kaiser, who took second place with a time of 1:42.37.
Three swimmers tallied two individual first-place finishes; Holder took first in the 1000-yard freestyle (10:53.08) and the 100-yard freestyle (54:58). Lang finished first in the 200-yard freestyle (2:00.24) and the 500-yard freestyle (5:21.99), while Umbach secured a first-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:09.10) and 400-yard IM (4:45.63).
Perry and Peats would earn first-place finishes in the 100-yard backstroke (1:01.20) and 200-yard backstroke (2:14.91). Perry would take second in the 100-yard freestyle(55.21), while Peats finished third with a time of 1:02.74 in the 100-yard butterfly.
Five more swimmers recorded second-place finishes for the Tigers. Megan Mackenzie finished second in the 1000-yard freestyle (11:18.30), Sweetwood earned her second-place finish after swimming the 50-yard freestyle in 25.44, and Grace Hilton took second in the 200-yard backstroke (2:16.31).
Alicia Delgado, who swam the 200-yard breaststroke (2:36.38), and Maddie Dixon, who swam the 500-yard freestyle (5:28.72), earned the final two, second-place finishes.
Peats would secure her second top-three individual finish after taking third in the 100-yard butterfly(1:02.74). Three more DePauw swimmers would tally four third-place finishes to help secure points to defeat Eastern Illinois. Waples swam the 50-yard freestyle in 25.46 for third; Madeleine Collier took home two third-place finishes in the 100-yard backstroke (1:03.43) and the 200-yard backstroke (2:16.61). Mia Hagenauer rounded out the third-place finishes, swimming the 200-yard freestyle in 2:02.40.
The Tigers return to Erdmann Natatorium Saturday, January 22 at 1 pm and host WashU.
