Terre Haute, Ind.- In its first dual meet of the 2023-24 season, the DePauw women's swim team defeated Rose-Hulman 188-75.
DePauw found its rhythm early after sweeping the 200-yard medley relay to open up the dual. DePauw finished the evening with eight top-three finish sweeps and totaled 12 individual and relay first-place finishes.
Two Tigers completed the night with two individual first-place finishes.
Libby Ruff earned her top finishes in the 200-yard free (2:03.08) and the 50-yard butterfly (27.40), while newcomer
Anya Melson opened her collegiate career finishing first in the 50-yard backstroke (29.43) and 500-yard free (5:28.89).
Fellow first-years
Mckenzie Ortolano in the 50-yard breaststroke (33.20) and
Zoe Green in the 100-yard butterfly (1:03.15) also earned their first collegiate top-finish.
The remaining first-place finishes were earned by
Claire Sweetwood, who took first in the 50-yard free (25.20), while
Tara Holder finished first in the 100-yard free (56.57), and
Cora Gilbert earned her first-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke (1:01.81). Rounding out the Tigers' first-place finishes was
Elise Umbach, who swam the 100-yard IM in 1:03.12.
DePauw swept both relays, with Melson,
Alex Voisard, Ortolano, and Green taking first place in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:54.78. The top relay in the 200-yard free relay was paced by Ruff, Gilbert, Olivia Harmsen, and
Caroline Stowe with a time of 1:42.87.
The Tigers would record a total of 17 second and third-place finishes throughout the dual, leading to its eight top-three finish sweeps.
| DePauw top-three finishes |
| Name |
Event |
Place |
Time |
| Libby Ruff |
200 Free |
1st |
2:03.08 |
| 50 Fly |
1st |
27.40 |
| Anya Melson |
50 Back |
1st |
29.43 |
| 500 Free |
1st |
5:28.89 |
| Grace Hilton |
50 Back |
2nd |
30:32 |
| 100 Back |
2nd |
1:06.00 |
| Paige Zurcher |
50 Back |
3rd |
32.31 |
| Mckenzie Ortolano |
50 Breast |
1st |
33.20 |
| Zoe Green |
100 Fly |
1st |
1:03.15 |
| 100 Free |
2nd |
58.71 |
| Cora Gilbert |
100 Back |
1st |
1:01.81 |
| 100 Fly |
2nd |
1:04.46 |
| Courtney Marsh |
100 Fly |
3rd |
1:04.56 |
| 100 Breast |
3rd |
1:15.47 |
| Claire Sweetwood |
50 Free |
1st |
25.20 |
| 50 Fly |
2nd |
28:37 |
| Elise Umbach |
100 IM |
1st |
1:03.12 |
| 50 Free |
2nd |
25.56 |
| Oliver Harmsen |
50 Free |
3rd |
26.65 |
| Tara Holder |
100 Free |
1st |
56.57 |
| Alex Voisard |
100 Free |
3rd |
58.74 |
| 100 IM |
3rd |
1:06.35 |
| Rosey Gomes |
100 Back |
3rd |
1:07.90 |
| Alicia Delgado |
100 Breast |
2nd |
1:14.68 |
| Megan Mackenzie |
500 Free |
2nd |
5:30.54 |
| Mckenzie Ortolano |
50 Breast |
1st |
33.20 |
| 50 Fly |
3rd |
28.75 |
| Caroline Stowe |
100 IM |
2nd |
1:05.22 |
Melson, Voisard,
Ortolano, Green |
200 Medley Relay |
1st |
1:54.78 |
Gilbert, Syd Kline,
Marsh,Harmsen |
200 Medley Relay |
2nd |
1:57.44 |
Mia Hagenauer, Umbach,
Sweetwood, Holder |
200 Medley Relay |
3rd |
1:57.98 |
Ruff, Gilbert,
Harmsen, Stowe |
200 Free Relay |
1st |
1:42.87 |
Ortolano, Melson,
Green, Voisard |
200 Free Relay |
2nd |
1:44.76 |
Hagenauer, Callan Plant,
Sweetwood, Umback |
200 Free Relay |
3rd |
1:46.69 |
DePauw's next meet is Saturday, October 14, in Crawfordsville, Indiana. The Tigers will be competing in the Indiana DIII Meet, with a start time of 1 p.m.
