Events in Friday and Saturday lineups at championship meets are often The College of Wooster swimming and diving program's strengths, and that is the case again this year, as the Fighting Scots had two championship final individual qualifiers and posted 11 top-12 finishes on day three of the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships.

Senior Boston Sullivan is clearly saving the best for last, as he lowered his program record twice in the 100 breaststroke on Friday, first to 56.30 in prelims, then to 55.78 in finals. Sullivan placed seventh in the championship final and was Wooster's first individual qualifier for the top heat at this year's preeminent Div. III conference meet. Sullivan previously swam the breaststroke leg of Wooster's record 200 (1:31.55) and 400 medley relays (3:21.00) earlier in the championships.

Hayden Price's impressive debut season continued, as he qualified for the championship final in the 100 backstroke. Wooster's record-holder in the event went 50.29 for eighth-place, with the time ranking just shy of his record 49.80. Like Sullivan, Price was part of the record 200 and 400 medley relays earlier in the championships.

Junior Chris Caldwell left a big mark on the championships, scoring 27 points in the one-meter diving competition, which is going to go a long way in hopefully solidifying a top-six team placement for the Scots. Caldwell took sixth with score of 334.35.

Senior Callum Glover, senior Will Laymon, junior Ethan Neuner, and senior Will Laubacher took fifth in the 200 freestyle relay at 1:24.41.

Massive time drops were the theme in the 400 individual medley. On the men's side, junior Ryan Stokes won the consolation final (10th-place), leading the heat to the wall at 4:08.46. Stokes' time is the fourth-fastest in program history and was nearly five seconds better than his Friday prelim swim. Price went 4:10.83 to score a 12th-place finish in the 400 individual medley, and his time was almost four seconds faster than prelims. Price cracked Wooster's top-10 list in the event during prelims, and shot up to seventh in finals.

Laymon rocketed up Wooster's top-10 list in the 100 butterfly, sprinting to a 49.91 in finals, which was 12th in the field. Laymon now sports the third-fastest time in program history.

Laubacher's 14th-place time of 1:43.49 in the 200 freestyle was just off his collegiate-best of 1:43.10. Laymon led Wooster in the 100 backstroke, posting the 15th-place time of 51.89.

Senior Keara Wiley, first-year Elena Sandifer, first-year Reese Lucas, and senior Patricia Chen teamed up to lead Wooster to the fifth-place time of 1:40.91 in the 200 freestyle relay, which capped Friday's lineup.

Senior Emma Humbert captured the consolation final of the 400 individual medley, in what was a majority Wooster heat. The time drops carried over to the women's side, as Humbert's winning time of 4:44.65 was nearly five seconds faster than the senior's prelim swim from Friday morning.

Wooster owned five of the nine lanes in the 400 individual medley consolation final. Senior Lacey Mindock raced to a 4:55.28, which was 13th. Sophomore Maggie Layne was right behind with the 14th-place time of 4:57.32. Junior Becca Murray went 5:00.99 for 16th in the 400 individual medley, and first-year Leah Dean rounded out the consolation-final placers with a 5:21.23.

Junior Elizabeth Theobald and Wiley were Wooster's qualifiers in the 100 butterfly consolation final. Theobald's 58.67 was just off the collegiate-best of 58.43 and ranked 13th at this year's conference meet. Wiley went 1:00.12 for a 15th-place showing.

Sandifer posted Wooster's second-highest women's individual finish in Friday's finals. Her 11th-place time of 1:56.77 was just shy of breaking into the program's top-10 list. Junior Rachel Frank backed that up with a 1:59.34 for 15th and first-year Aryanna Harton went 2:02.43 to round out the placers in the consolation final.

In the 100 breaststroke, Wooster was led by Layne's 1:09.87, which ranked 12th in the conference. Senior Ainsley Rogers posted a 1:11.21 for 14th, and a top-18 showing was logged by sophomore Savannah Cox (1:12.39).

Lucas was the top placer for Wooster in the 100 backstroke. She went 1:02.56 to win the bonus heat (19th-place).

Wooster's women are in fifth-place with 561 points. They trail Kenyon College (1,300 points), Denison University (1,153 points), DePauw University (890.5 points), and John Carroll University (633.5 points) entering the final day of competition.

On the men's side, Wooster sits in sixth with 511.5 points points. Wooster trails Denison (1,352 points), Kenyon (1,193.5 points), John Carroll (805.5 points), DePauw (716 points), and Wabash College (655 points).

Saturday's prelims are at 9:30 a.m., while finals are slated for a 6 p.m. start.