The College of Wooster swimming and diving teams swept an impromptu senior day tri-meet against Wittenberg University and NCAA Division II Malone University in the final tune-up before the NCAC Championships, hosted inside Timken Natatorium.
The Wooster women beat Malone 204-73 and Wittenberg 191-71 while Malone beat Wittenberg 138-113. The men's team won 217-61 against Malone and 231-33 against Wittenberg.
Malone joined the meet late in the week after a cancellation on their schedule.
The afternoon began with a Scot sweep in the 200 yard medley. The combination of first-year
Leah Dean, sophomore
Maggie Layne, sophomore
Elizabeth Theobald and senior
Keara Wiley touched the wall in 1:50.63. First-year
Hayden Price, senior
Boston Sullivan, senior
Will Laymon and senior
Callum Glover made it the sweep with a time of 1:35.19.
Ten Scots won multiple events, four for the women and six for the men.
Junior
Rachel Frank dominated the distance events with 11:10.32 in the 1,000 free and 5:27.21 in the 500 free. First-year
Elena Sandifer covered the shorter freestyle events with a 1:59.17 in the 200 and a 55.50 in the 100.
Wiley beat out the competition in the 50 free (25.06) and the 50 fly (27.08) and Dean showed out in the 50 back (29.24) and the 100 back (1:02.65).
The multi-event winners for the men were junior
Philipp Drappatz, Laymon, Sullivan, Glover and Price. Drappatz took the 200 free in a career-best 1:47.51 and the 500 free in 4:51.41.
Laymon, Sullivan, Glover and Price all capitalized off their earlier relay win and found success in their individual events. Laymon won the 50 back in 24.80 and the 50 fly in a career-best 22.67.
Sullivan won in the 50 breast in 27.70 and the 100 breast in 59.66, Glover won in the 50 free in 21.09 and 100 free in 47.94, and Price won in the 100 back in 53.65 and 100 IM in 55.58.
Although senior
Noah McDonald happened to be the only men's diver competitor, he still put together strong performances in both events, tallying 199 points in the 1 meter and 149.45 in the 3 meter.
Other individual event winners were Layne in the 100 breast in a time of 1:13.02, first-year
Evan Hasenkampf in the 1,000 free in 10:29.90 and junior
Ethan Neuner in the 100 fly in 58.41.
The Scots capped off the afternoon with another relay sweep in the 200 free relay. Sandifer, first-year
Reese Lucas, senior
Patricia Chen and Wiley won in 1:40.01 while Laymon, Neuner, senior
Will Laubacher and Glover went 1:24.89 for their win and a pool record.
Wooster begins the North Coast Athletic Conference Championship meet on Wednesday, Feb. 11, hosted at Denison University inside the Trumbull Aquatics Center.
