ST. PAUL, Minn. – The St. Olaf College men's and women's swimming and diving teams combined to win 25 of the 32 events on their way to sweeping their Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) dual meets against Hamline University on Saturday at Bush Center Pool.
The Ole women won 13-of-16 events to defeat the Pipers by a score of 212-87, while the men claimed event wins in 12 of the 16 events to win by a 183-46 score. Junior
Tim Rizzo led the way for the men by winning three individual events and swimming on a first-place relay, while first year
Ellen Varley had three individual first-place finishes and swam on a winning relay.
Women's Recap
Varley was one of four Oles who won multiple individual events and swam on at least one first-place relay, touching the wall first in the 50-yard freestyle (26.14), 100-yard individual medley (1:04.56), and 50-yard butterfly (27.92).
Junior
Annika Cleven, sophomore
Tatum Hauck, and senior
Maya Knutson each placed first in two events individually. Cleven won the 100-yard butterfly (1:00.69) and 100-yard backstroke (1:03.56), Hauck won the 200-yard freestyle (2:07.01) and 100-yard freestyle (57.85), and Knutson claimed the 50-yard backstroke (29.56) and 100-yard breaststroke (1:10.54).
St. Olaf also got event wins from sophomores
Signe Hauck in the 50-yard breaststroke (35.23) and
Charlotte Thomson in the 500-yard freestyle (5:36.25). The Oles also won both relays, as Cleven,
Sophia Nevin, Varley, and Knutson finished first in the 200-yard medley relay (1:54.32) and Knutson, both Haucks, and Cleven won the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:44.92).
Men's Recap
Rizzo won the 200-yard IM (2:01.70), 100-yard butterfly (54.33), and 500-yard freestyle (4:49.33) to pace the Oles and was a member of the winning 200-yard medley relay (1:43.50) along with sophomore
Marcus Hauck, first year
Avery Nevins, and first year
Thomas McCarthy.
Hauck and classmate
Daniel Bloedow also touched the wall first in a pair of individual events, with Hauck winning the 50-yard backstroke (25.73) and 50-yard butterfly (24.44) and Bloedow winning the 100-yard individual medley (59.64) and 100-yard backstroke (1:02.54).
Senior
Sjon Greseth and first year
Ben Gusdal added wins in the 200-yard freestyle (1:59.32) and 50-yard breaststroke (29.27), while also swimming on the first-place 200-yard freestyle relay (1:35.32) with McCarthy and Nevins. Junior
Kyle Colby was the lone competitor in the one-meter diving and posted a score of 148.80 to win the event.
Both teams are scheduled to compete in another MIAC dual at Macalester on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 1 p.m.
